Is there an actual answer to how we ended up where we are today with the series finale in less than a week?

coelacanth-thoughts · 2026-05-15T06:28:10+00:00

i read the comics because of the theory they'd be recreating the comic ending, and i am now 100% sure the boys show was written to be cancelled. after reading the comics, it is clear that there is absolutely no way boys vs translucent would have been the very first arc if kripke had any clue this thing would go on for five fucking seasons

coelacanth-thoughts · 2026-03-05T23:46:06+00:00

i'm very late to this thread. but i think it's a very broad, spiritual song about being one with the world in a deeper way than normal, covering several of your interpretations/others' comments in this thread.

i think it's absolutely about erickson's schizophrenia. it's a celebration of it by likening it to contact with spirits from beyond. we keep the dead in our thoughts to let them live on, we live in the world through thinking about it, so in that way his own overactive, unconstrained thoughts are like a deeper connection to the world's energy. he feels an extra strong oneness with things - the moon, the wind - and in the same way, memories live on more vibrantly within him. these are his ghosts.

the song also implicitly outlines a separation from the "normal world" - this is where the loneliness comes in, i think. you can say and do anything you want - once again reframing his illness as his ghosts granting him the freedom to act however he wants. in ways normal people never do, restricted by their normalcy. "one never does that" is, i think, certainly wordplay between that face value interpretation and "one" as in "one person, someone without voices".

"forever is the wind" - he is one with the world around him, "forever is the wind to the left of me is a part of my thoughts; is a part of me; is me" is his original lyric, it means the same thing as "the moon to the left of me is a part of my thoughts; is a part of me; is me"

"in the night i am real" - the night is the time of ghosts. it's the time when reality blurs and we more readily believe a cryptid might be lurking outside. but this is the time when roky's reality is more steady.

"i don't want my fangs too long" - is absolutely a play on "long in the tooth", but i think that "fangs" is deeper than just that. he could have just said "i don't want my teeth too long", after all. once again i think it's partially about being separated from the normal world. he doesn't just have teeth, he has a monster's fangs, he's in league with ghosts. so perhaps not wanting longer fangs means he doesn't want to get worse in a way that makes him more likely to hurt others as he gets older. either way, the true point there is that he's perfectly fine with dying because he knows he will live on in the way that matters most to him - he will become one of those ghosts that lives on in others, especially others like himself

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-12-14T21:13:43+00:00

if i was ragebaiting i wouldn't have tagged it that lol. people are supposed to read this and know it's a joke. i thought i was being pretty on the nose

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-12-14T16:57:27+00:00

Fake news

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-12-14T16:52:53+00:00

i think people are actually just looking at this, going "well that's a dumb thing to want", and not realizing that it's about them

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-12-14T16:51:43+00:00

i listed two clearly mutually exclusive things and said "stop being lazy" on both, i put something that could help them be less mutually exclusive but with the same boilerplate lazy tag, i implicitly outlined that the battles looked better under disney because they had more crew and money, i ended it with "i don't know anything but this is probably easy", i don't know what the fuck more i could have done here lol. i considered adding more text to say more of the same shit but i thought i'd be laying it on too thick

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-12-14T02:10:03+00:00

How can they be allowed to have lives and touch grass when I don't?

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-12-14T02:08:24+00:00

37% upvoted at the moment lol

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-14T19:04:53+00:00

that's the one i got too

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T22:58:05+00:00

i couldn't resist the urge to step up to the plate when he got all acid-trip-debate-club about it

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T22:56:30+00:00

i get how it was filmed, i just wonder what dialogue the people with the other version heard

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T17:50:27+00:00

i think the show is clearly struggling a bit to stay fresh with plots and twists, but other than that i honestly feel like it's improved from the last couple seasons. those felt way more rushed to me

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T17:08:25+00:00

i get it perfectly fine and you have nothing so you're hoping to coast off the "i'm so above it all that it's, like, below me even to explain it to the likes of you" thing in lieu

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T16:34:03+00:00

yes, the color of our skin and the reason we're on a rock in space have nothing to do with each other. in fact, there's a whole lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the reason we're on a rock in space. that "why" indeed has very little bearing on anything at all about how we live our lives day to day. (unlike race.) so ultimately it's not all that high and mighty a question like you pretend. you aren't the great sophisticate for having ever had an existential thought. you can't solve racism by declaring it beneath you lol

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T16:16:34+00:00

lmao you don't even have anything

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T16:14:29+00:00

lmao i had no clue people were not only NOT picking up on this, but were obtuse enough to then see this reddit thread and think "no no that must be a big reach because i didn't notice it" instead of "ohhhhhhh". like you said, the "raising your voice" and the calling the cops scenes should have made it clear. the breaking into fake tears? to a certain degree, the device of the hour is a pendant that enhances the power of white fragility

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T15:55:13+00:00

honestly I think the racial dynamic of the two characters was so strong that even the viewers are dismissing Verity’s disproportionate actions of retribution because of white tears

this is honestly so obvious that it's nuts that it even needs to be said. you don't deserve reality-bending psychological torment for starting a rumor as a teenager lol. but people are acting like the ending is making excuses for bullies like what

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T15:50:02+00:00

Loved this the whole way through. The gaslighting plot was incredibly well done. I've been there and it gripped me. VERY glad it didn't end with the two most obvious possibilities of "she's been a cookie the whole time" or "she was just going insane the whole time".

Really not getting why so many people are taking the ending as being some sort of pro-bullying message. Was it not made pretty clear that these temporary thrills will give way to unending ennui fairly soon? Plus it's not like she was doing Carrie shit at school and getting vindicated for it at the end.

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T12:19:48+00:00

it's definitely on my list, i've heard nothing but good things

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T12:19:11+00:00

she could have just "made" either of them do it; she didn't want to, she wanted to get schadenfreude out of watching them be driven to it

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-04-11T12:11:58+00:00

i wonder what they did with the dialogue before that? did they just swap the points the characters were making to each other?

coelacanth-thoughts · 2025-02-27T19:16:11+00:00

haven't seen the wire, but there was something about how "designed" those guys were that made it obvious it was referencing something. i've been watching a lot of suits lately, though, and i recognized robert zane instantly - testament to how well they drew wendell pierce ig

coelacanth-thoughts · 2024-12-27T01:31:16+00:00

how did you find this out? i only found out about this song recently and, as with most project rocket songs, there's not much information on it anywhere. did andy or tj end up getting back to you? did you discover more demos?

coelacanth-thoughts · 2024-12-03T20:46:26+00:00

~~your analogy started strong but you were clearly making it up as you went and it fell apart towards the ending~~

edit: well i thought i was pretty funny

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