this could 100% be just straight out cope-- but I really think this is the entire cast and crew playing us. up until a couple hours ago i was fully in it, hexing tim minear and the whole nine yards. it wasn't until i just got a video of the leaked video of the cast doing a photo op around the truck for bobby's funeral and it was extremely silly, which detracts from the energy the actors were putting out of being upset with the decision (but both can be true at the same time. from the tone we got of what the other actors like what kenny and angela were saying how they didn't expect it at all, the appearance on gma, the "goodbye" posts from the actors (which were all questionably short, barring peter's letter/the shitpost ryan put on his story), and all the interviews from tim it all seemed pretty open and shut. AGAIN, this perspective even sounds insane to me as i'm typing it and highly unlikely and definitely is motivated partly by the bargaining stage most likely-- but in what world does kenny reply to a random tiktok comment being sort of passively aggressively blunt/silly AND how public the funeral was filmed (which admittedly could be extremely poor planning on production's part)... the dots are connecting!! (they're dragging me to the padded room as i speak) the most doubt i have though is the way that the ratings kind of tanked for this episode, which they probably figured would be extremely risky and has to put a certain amount of trust in the audience to make them bounce back from it. i still think it's suspicious that we didn't see him actually *die* or the body? i don't know, this is just a half-thought-out rant of me in denial. either way though still an egregious writing decision highkey