#bear in area

[merciawintersageposting]

….i’ll see myself out

[sephirthoughts]

found hanging on reeve’s office door

[knight-in-sour-armor]

[starsteemer]

watch out

[the44thpilot]

the bear

There he is

[prettybearbutch]

dating apps aren't working. I need to go look confused at a Home Depot

[macksartblock]

familiarity breeds discontent

[shakingparadigm]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TILL

[indigonite]

Back when the first mario movie trailer dropped I spent a few days consumed by what I’ve called “bowser thoughts”. that’s the kind of power a single dad raising a child can have on your mind

anyway human bowser

[skeletoninthemelonland]

[introspectivememories]

it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bernard down in possession of an empty lap, must be in want of a tim drake to sit in it

[barksbog]

he got to see some bears today

[knight-in-sour-armor]

[sappsorrow]

You're kinda acting like a saltine, you know that? I'm not a saltine. You're acting like a saltine. Why? Why? What's going on with you? I know there's something, just tell me. Come on, Carm, I'm right here, what's going on? I gotta drag it out of you?

[fatedroses]

He is here to stare into his soul.

[ambeauty]

Thoughts on Magic

As I’m sure many of my fellow Bearitos have pointed out one of the main themes this season was Legerdemain/Sleight of Hand/Magic Tricks.

Rewatching legacy made me think of how this show is a magic trick in and of itself. With all the discourse about whether or not the bear is a comedy. I realized that the bear as a television show is a magic trick. Although it was premiered to the world as a comedy. It has shown to be so much more. I still consider it comedic to an extent and in certain instances but I thought that was a pretty interesting idea. That’s not what this is about.

Then I looked up what The Prestige means. Being the Nolan girlie that I am I remember that being the final act of the magic trick. I need the prestige for the bear to be the final reveal that it was a love story all along.

There’s a quote in 309 about telling the viewer you have deceived them up front. So since the beginning cast and crew has told us no romance, no romance no romance. That’s the blatant deception because as we continue to watch we see romance EVERYWHERE. Back to my googling of the prestige. I came across an article about the 3 steps of magic:

Here’s what I think the steps of magic of the bear are. Think of Sydney as the dove and also as the symbol of a love interest. That’s not diminishing her but that’s just what she is especially for this essay lmao. This is great because doves symbolize peace and all that. Show starts with the dove being introduced (classic meet cute). Sydney’s introduction and even the final scene of s1 where she comes back makes her The Pledge.

The Turn: Sydney does something extraordinary. She practically builds the entire restaurant by herself in s2 while Carmy disappears. This also takes us into s3, where Sydney starts to disappear as well. This is not what we expected from her or him at this point. Some of us thought we were at the prestige. But this is when the show became a lot more blatantly romantic. There were definitive love interests introduced, but to me Claire is like the closet(or fridge) the magician puts the dove inside of. To hide the trick!!!!

I hope this shit is making sense 😭

Now we don’t know whether s4 is the final season or not. I’m going to go with the notion that it’s not. However we are nearing the time for The Prestige. I believe at some point in the final act it will be revealed that this show was centered around the building of the romantic relationship of Sydney and Carmy the entire time. There’s lot of meta and evidence for this. And it’s not an unusual occurrence in modern media at all to be deceived by productions all the time.

So I say all of this to say just sit back and relax, enjoy the magic of this television show and wait for the prestige 🤭