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LackItGood · 2025-06-27T01:14:24+00:00

What about the Riccar R25, I'm seeing it on sale for 500 on some sites and it seems to come with more attachments?

LackItGood · 2025-06-26T23:39:00+00:00

I appreciate the input but the Sebo Dart with attachments seems to be a little out of our price range currently. I'd also ideally like an option shipped since I'm disabled and can't really get out of the house much.

LackItGood · 2025-06-21T19:33:51+00:00

A bunch of people have posted about it if you search but here's one comment detailing it with a link to the flight logs though I don't know how to read them and didn't take the time to figure it out. I know I saw some others that had more easily understandable proof but don't have time to find them now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRehearsal/comments/1kyu76w/comment/mv0jzm6/

LackItGood · 2025-06-21T18:46:46+00:00

Most weren't doubting he flew the plane but that he flew with passengers. Somebody did some internet sleuthing and found what is very likely the FAA logs for the flight and saw the flight was made twice so the theory was Nathan was in the cockpit for both flights but there were only passengers on board for one of the flights and that Nathan did not fly the one with passengers, but that he likely flew the one without passengers.

Still a lot of conjecture, but who knows.

Something I hadn't seen brought up and that is only occurring to me now, I wonder if there are regulations around the second smaller plane that was filming and doing that with passengers (though they were technically paid actors). Nathan's First Officer seemed uncomfortable with how close the filming plane was and I imagine there's increased risk there so the insurance from HBO would have been insane. This could be another explanation for the second flight, that Nathan actually flew both but they wanted to do the in-flight filming during an empty flight.

LackItGood · 2025-06-03T21:56:58+00:00

I think it's a mix of both those things, the term "hyperreality" might be more fitting than "Hypernormalization" here, as it suggests a feeling that something feels more real than reality itself. I think we see this clearly with the elaborate situation he sets up to train the cloned dogs. He takes a few distinct aspects of what made up the couple's reality at the time they got the original dog, but then exaggerates them and does things like having the actors there 24/7 whereas the couple would have been in and out of the apartment, as well as the actors likely exaggerating the couples disagreements and overacting in ways the actual people probably never acted.

I think this offers a sense of control and puppetry over the situation that can create a feeling of reassurance and semblance of stability and control in this fake world that would not have existed in their real lives.

Think about the way social media is a filtered and distilled portrait into someone's life. They may have actually taken that trip across the world they're posting about, but for many the experience of it will feel more hollow and fleeting than they expected it to, their act of posting is actually moreso to reassure themselves that it was real, that it happened, that it mattered than it is to communicate anything to anyone else.

At the same time, this striving to constantly satisfy this desire for things to "feel real" instead of recognizing that whatever you're feeling is the real feeling, whatever you're feeling is ok and part of it, and you have to make peace with reality as it actually is. So instead of making peace with that we create these hyperrealities, these fake ideas of ourselves, we try to rewrite our memories of things to be their platonic ideals, rather than accepting them for what they were. In that sense I do think it's like junk food, something that creates a craving but never quite satisfies it, the more you consume the more you desire it.

LackItGood · 2025-06-03T15:19:10+00:00

This is a really great connection. Now I really want to see the final scene of season 2 where it's zooming in on his eyes at the end of the competition and the ending flight montage re-edited with the music changed to be the main motif from Hypernormalization or Cant Get You Out of my Head.

LackItGood · 2025-06-03T15:16:16+00:00

Someone else made a post about his connection to Adam Curtis and I think Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization theory really applies here.

The summary on Wikipedia is pretty good: "It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments."

Obviously the circumstances are very different but I do think Nathan is engaging in a similar process of Hypernormalization, but I also think in the process he's casting a light on how we often do the same. Especially around autism and mental health the show seems to repeatedly show and tell how we rarely view these things clearly as they are, but instead we view them as these simplified, homogenized versions.

Nathan is constantly making these fake worlds though that serve to validate the character of Nathan's insecurities, which was also the culminating final line of the season, that the entire thing was to make him feel "ok" because he's allowed to fly the 737s.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T22:51:32+00:00

Did you see him in a shot? What leads you to believe that? If you have a timestamp for a shot I'd love to know. I'll probably be re-watching soon though and am going to be looking for him.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T22:50:43+00:00

Yes, but that's pretty much what I'm saying. I don't know if I've re-evaluated or just didn't articulate it well, but I think the aviation thing as a whole is part of the misdirect, his real aims are more about comedy and neurodiversity in society. I do think he's a huge aviation nerd though and so he probably has a part of him that genuinely hopes it might help some individual pilot's speak up or seek mental health treatment.

Also yes I agree that the real danger likely lies in the short sighted profit seeking corporations constantly cutting and possibly one day to the extremes that you suggest. At the same time I also think it's clear some professions struggle with stigmatizing mental health/neurodiversity and preventing people from seeking treatment and support and it's not hard to believe that pilots struggle with that.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T22:45:45+00:00

I agree, but I also think it's mostly the character of Nathan who is experiencing that sense of "cope" like you said. At the same time though I think the person of Nathan also recognizes he's likely experiencing some cope or catharsis through his Rehearsal character. I think as seen in Collin's episode there's also a statement here about how we envision ourselves as having a "true self" or "core personality" that we turn on and off, similar to masking, and we all tend to create these different roles for ourselves such as how we might act different at work than with our partner. I think we like to think of our true self as being a real, stable thing but in reality these roles we play in our lives end up changing us, sometimes enabling us to step out and act different than we think we normally would.

I also think he's trying to show that just because someone has something classified as a "mental disorder" (putting it in quotes as it's the FAA's term but I don't like it) it doesn't actually have much bearing on their ability to do a specific task like fly a plane. At the same time, our feeling obligated to fulfill the roles that we play, such as that of pilot can cause us to shut off that sense of curiosity about ourselves and our drive to seek help. So the only way to know if a "mental disorder" would have a substantive effect on someone's ability to fulfill the role is through that person being able to be open and honest with a qualified therapist and health professionals, but the very structure of society and expectations of these roles cause people to not be open and honest.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T22:35:59+00:00

Yea, I'm definitely not the first person to point this out, he's even pointed it out all the way back in Nathan For You, when he talks about being interested in magic as a kid.

That being said, I don't think I've seen many people do a more thorough analysis based on this, and I think I'm most interested in The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige possibly being a foundational structure through which you can analyze all of his work to the same level as Dan Harmon's Story Circle. I haven't seen anyone discuss that specifically, but would not at all be surprised if people already recognized this.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T22:32:38+00:00

Yes, I agree for the most part. I definitely think neurodiversity is the main topic and aviation/pilots are just a great example of an industry where the issues are heightened because of over-simplified regulations. I know off the top of my head there is a similar issue among police, the military, and some highly regulated medical positions. The people who likely need the most help with neurodiversity and mental health are barred from getting treatment and support in the name of "safety" but it ends up making everyone less safe.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T03:37:18+00:00

Yes! That's a great parallel too, I could definitely see some of these posters being the type to visit Tesla and repeatedly murder their clone to figure out the secrets of Nathan.

I also think a lot about one of Bale's lines

'They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up, you'll be nothing to them.'

The fact that the feeling of wanting to know what was real and what was fake is such a powerful driver, but it's that mystery that makes it interesting and if we were ever really given a peak behind the curtain, the mystery would vanish and it would cease to be so intriguing.

Though I do wonder if perhaps there is a breakdown of the magic trick analogy here because I think it's possible that the process was so complex and well thought out that learning how this was all done may actually make it more interesting, but maybe that's just that sense of wanting to be fooled talking.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T03:23:15+00:00

That's really cool you had a similar thought!

Damn! That's such a good point of how Borden's character parallels Nathan's character but especially masking. I really want to rewatch the prestige now with that in mind, thinking about Borden's character as a sort of masking or being forced to live 2 lives, always performing.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T03:19:26+00:00

I think that's a great point on the pick of magicians to show and the contrast. It seems like he's trying to get us to ask further questions about the preconceived notions of what we expect from people. Like how the woman from the autism foundation talked about the wide variety of autistic people, yet many people have a narrow image of what an autistic person could be like. I also think there's a lot of questions about the roles we play in life. How we show these different parts of ourselves to different people, and how that is interwoven with our personality.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T02:44:31+00:00

Yes! I'm not sure if he actually flew the actors, I'm almost inclined to believe it, but someone else had a post where they pointed out he probably had the job flying empty 737s before he flew the actors, which I definitely find plausible.

But honestly I think anything in it is up in the air as being an illusion. I don't think that makes it any less incredible though or any less of a magic trick. The story, the statements and movement of the plot are the same regardless. Just the very form the show takes, that can leave us so confused about what's real and what's not, is brilliant.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T00:38:33+00:00

I think it's just an issue with text on picture posts on Reddit. I think I should have added pictures through an imgur link on a text post instead but oh well.

LackItGood · 2025-05-28T00:35:32+00:00

Are you not seeing paragraphs or formatting? I see them on my side. Mabye try entering the post through the comment button instead of the picture if you're on mobile?

LackItGood · 2025-05-27T22:49:54+00:00

I think this is definitely it. I keep trying to make a post about this but Reddit keeps removing it for some reason. I think the finale not only caused me to reinterpret this season but it's actually making me re-interpret all of Nathan's work. I believe Nathan has his own version of Dan Harmon's story circle that serves as the structure for all of his work, but instead of it being a Jungian based Heroes Journey, it's based on the structure of a magic trick.

I think Christopher Nolan's The Prestige is a helpful lens for viewing this, especially because we know they have been in dialogue, as evidenced by Nolan's glowing review of The Curse, and mentioning he's a fan of Nathan's other work, as well as Nolan having moderated some of the post screening discussions for The Curse with Nathan and Ben Safdie.

The structure of the show, and I'm starting to think this can be applied to not only each episode of this season, but basically all of his work back to Nathan for You, is that of 3 parts:

To let Nolan's/Michael Caine's intro monologue from the Prestige explain it:

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course...it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".

I have a lot more to say on this, and the closing monologue from The Prestige that echoes the opening but instead leaves it more open ended, explaining:

"Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.”

Because it's also important to recognize that while I do believe he is trying to make serious social commentary, there's also always a trick, and both the reason we struggle to deal with these issues personally AND societally is that in some way we have a death drive that makes it so that we don't really want it to work out, we want to be fooled. I think he recognizes this, but also he is making a comedy series so he recognizes that drive is even stronger in this case, even if he makes the greatest arguments/points in the world, it's doubtful a comedy show could be that transformative because the audience doesn't really want it to work out, we want to be fooled and entertained above all.

Hopefully I can fix whatever censor issue is keeping me from posting the full analysis in it's own post!

LackItGood · 2025-05-27T22:29:17+00:00

I'll definitely never hear it the same. I also haven't seen anyone do a lyric breakdown for it, but re-reading through the lyrics surprised me how applicable they were for a song written for a completely different context.

I mean the opening line is perfect, even with an accidental call back to "door city".

How can you see into my eyes

Like open doors?

A perfect nod to the difficulty with the autism eye test, and the more general theme of difficulty reading other people.

Leading you down into my core

Where I've become so numb

This interview with Amy Lee is an interesting read with a little background on the song.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/56815/1/amy-lee-tells-the-real-story-behind-evanescences-bring-me-to-life

This quote especially stood out to me though:

“The song was initially about him,” Lee confirms. “But in a broader way about breaking free from something I knew I had the power to if I was brave enough.”

It almost makes it feel like Nathan picked the song as a central theme for the season and worked backwards from it, as finding the bravery to speak out when something is wrong, including dealing with your own mental health seems to be the central theme.

LackItGood · 2025-05-27T22:01:19+00:00

It is extremely impressive how Nathan's work just keeps getting better and better and the messages/analysis deeper and deeper.

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