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applebunch · 2 years ago

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far more compelling for me than the fact that narrators can time-travel is the reason WHY narrators can time-travel. in-universe acknowledgement of "nothing in their universe exists outside of the things that are 'on mic'". if it isn't in an episode, it didn't actually happen. that's an actual rule that exists in the story. it has been canonized.

the stamatis's parents never spent a second alive. gemma and charlotte never actually had their wedding. every single character has only existed as far back as their flashbacks can throw them. and that's IF they have flashbacks! flashbacks are not common! leon dragging michael out of the bar didn't get a flashback, so it didn't happen! like not in just the implicit way that applies to all characters in all stories, that's an in-universe rule!

but what's really getting me is this:

greater boston starts with leon killing himself. it starts because he kills himself. the foundation of the story is leon's death on the roller coaster. that's why everything else happens. leon's death makes something in their strange world into a story worth telling. the story is the only medium through which their world is allowed to exist.

leon's death is what brought their world into existence.

or, fun reversal, the world was created SO leon could die in it, which would then create a story intriguing enough to justify the existence of the rest of the world.

huh.

#LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO "when i died on that roller coaster- was it supposed to be that way?'' YEAH I GUESS SO BUDDY #CONGRATS! YEAH! THANKS TO YOUR VALIANT EFFORTS YOUR WORLD GETS TO EXIST FOR #let's see... *pulls out calculator and starts counting on my fingers*#56 non-full episodes (minieps. specials. i'm counting the second halves of two parters also. not counting recaps) + 46 full episodes...#being incredibly horribly generous and saying each and every one is 1 hour long we get... 4.25 days. thanks leon!#all that nonsense with nica and michael talking about leon like he's god is extra interesting now...................#always thought there was something fun about leon's last name predicting his death-#but with the context that leon only exists BECAUSE of his death...#leon stamatis #grater bluecheese #anyway like the whole point of leon's character is that he's a man so dedicated to maintaining predictability and order #that when he gets on a roller coaster he just. chooses to die so as to not face the uncertainty of whether or not he'd survive it #he is the protagonist of a fable. like the cow who jumped over the moon. the boy who cried wolf. the woman who lived in a shoe.#“there once was a man who led such a predictable life that he wrote every event and action he had planned into a meticulous calendar”#“once day. his sister took him to an amusement park and led him onto one of the rides”#“the man was overcome with fear- as he wasn't sure if he would live or die. so he took the only predictable action he could...”#“...and simply perished. without even feeling the first breeze of descent.”#“the end.”#but then... that isn't where the story ends. we look into the lives of other characters and the life the man had led before he died #and that's greater boston #leon's death scene is a short modern-day fable and the rest of the story is a natural extension of that fable #at least that's how i always saw it anyway. lol.#the scorpion kills the frog and then they drown together and then you get 5 seasons of the frog and scorpion's family members mourning #O M G!!!! IT'S JUST LIKE PRINCESS TUTU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#unreality #greater boston spoilers

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