#CREELBY SAVE ME

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I love how hentty/creelby in TFS is just like “AU where the flaying happened to mileven in season 2 instead of byler”.

Henry physically avoids kissing her for as long as he can. And I mean that literally. He ducks away and scrambles backwards until the theater troupe literally corners him into it. When he realizes he doesn’t have a choice, he just kind of stands there doing his little nervous hand movements while Patty kisses him.

It’s exactly like this, but if Mike was more openly nervous/uncomfortable:

And it’s insane to me that TFS is the blueprint for a rescue failure re: the Shadow. Patty trying to save Henry from the Shadow in Act 1 is like splicing the 4.09 monologue into the shed scene from Season 2. Patty tells Henry she loves him and he doesn’t say it back. Straight up. If she hadn’t gone “you have to say it back”, he wouldn’t have!

And I’m in no way blaming Patty, but part of me wonders if, like for El, that romance stuff and the I-love-yous were a distraction that, while well intended, caused the situation to spiral further than it needed to. Henry was already fighting the Shadow on his own/of his own accord. He didn’t need to worry about saying it at that point. Will’s worked so well because everyone was flooding him with love without any expectation of a response, and I definitely think that’s the more effective strategy.

Later on, when the accident happens in DOTM, there’s a bit where Brenner is talking about how Henry’s a monster/US Govt. property, and Patty turns to Henry and goes “what are you?”, and that’s the moment when Henry loses whatever grip he had left on the Shadow.

It was very much pulling on the scene from El’s bedroom in 4.09. The “the way you looked at me…you’re scared of me” one that makes it hard for El to fight Vecna later because she feels alone/unsupported.

Truth is? Patty was scared of Henry. For the entirety of Act 2, she’s scared of him (and she’s within her rights to be, despite Henry constantly reassuring her he’d never hurt her). She cares for him, no doubt, but it’s that fear and lack of faith that makes Henry realize he’s truly alone.

And that takes me right back to Joyce’s 4th wall break in Act 1, where she looks directly at the audience and says “that’s the central question of this play: can love defeat fear?”

Not here, it didn’t. It could have, had the faith been stronger, but it wasn’t. It was entirely on Patty’s shoulders to save Henry, a boy she just met, with no powers but love, “love” that didn’t even have time to really develop from infatuation into real dedication. It was destined to fail because there’s no way she was going to be able to tackle that problem on her own, nor should she be expected to given the circumstances (hence why Henry keeps telling her to run away instead). So it didn’t work, and Henry was lost to the Shadow and then again to Brenner.

It’s like I’ve said a million times: the only reason Will survived ST2 was because of the unwavering love of his family and friends. There was never any question for him. Henry needed the full, unwavering support of his family and friends, and he just didn’t have that.

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Dream A Little Dream Of Me: Is Patty Real?

So, in TFS, Patty sings Dream A Little Dream of Me. And I’ve posted before (even before TFS was released) about the idea of Patty not being real and being a dream/part of a simulation/possibly even a piece of NINA computer code.

And so, it’s just interesting to me that we have the lyric “night breezes seem to whisper I love you,” in DALDOM, versus Patty telling Henry that she loves him up in the drafty attic at night.

It’s also really interesting to me that I talked in this post about how in-show Victor’s “vision,” has constant NINA parallels vs how he was seemingly picked up by the lab on the night of the murders and dropped off on the side of the road with his memories scrambled- almost like he got NINA’d.

The same Victor who claims that during his “vision” (possible NINA simulation), he heard the “voice of an angel,” singing DALDOM and guiding him out of France- meanwhile, Patty in TFS both a.) sings DALDOM and b.) is constantly compared to being an angel, right down to even wearing wings and a while dress.

Did Victor interact with some sort of Patty computer program?? Like Hal from Space Odyssey (which is on the S4 board) singing Daisy Bell vs a Patty program singing DALDOM??

And look, I ADORE Patty, this PAINS ME to type, but I genuinely get less and less convinced rhat she’s real every day. Especially considering all of the Creelby vs Stobin parallels I’ve mentioned previously vs Steve in the bathroom scene talking about Suzie and how he’s “not sure this girl is even real.”

And like, Bob never mentions a sister- and he also mentions his PARENTS (plural) in Maine- but the whole reason why Mr Newby resented Patty was because he adopted her to try and save his failing marriage & then that failed and Mr Newby resented Patty after his wife left him for Ted’s dad. So, why does Bob never mention his sister and why are his parents seemingly still together??

And like?? Is it not just a LITTLE bit weird that there’s all of this focus on Patty’s unnamed mother vs Mother from Alien being a computer?? And Bob naming his radio device “Dad” in TFS?? And Argyle saying that NINA was a “small woman”???

Something weird is going on here.