#also ppl nitpicking at artistic choices and acting choices like. i'm sorry you did not see the vision but EYE think everyone did great

[angelsdean]

just watched I Saw the TV Glow and then looked at some reddit posts abt it (i know, why?) and man so many people Do Not Get It. even queer ppl commenting in these threads criticizing certain aspects of it are just. missing the point. like one person saying they didn't like how the movie focused so much on the Pink Opaque and the show's characters and feeling like they came away from the movie knowing more abt the show's character's than the "real characters" and i am like ???? don't you GET that the "real" characters were not in fact their real selves??? their real selves WERE the show characters, and they're purposely trapped away, forced to be these other versions of themselves that feel suffocating and less real but which they're made to believe are their real selves like hello???? i am also laughing at ppl saying they didn't like having to dig deep for meaning and unpack metaphors and thus found it "boring." couldn't be me! i love digging. it's also, not that hard to understand the metaphors though imo?? anyways EYE i am chewing on all of this and Feeling Things.