#bedrockblr tel me your thoughts on this

[mirinda03]

Moth what are your thoughts on the bedrock bros arc

*GASP*

You have unlocked. The bedrock bros brainrot.

Bedrock bros is just. The arc was just. The arc was absolutely marvelous let me tell you that.

I am someone who watched exile completely live and let me tell you, boy was it heart wrenching. I was already a bedrock bros fan before exile, but i joined after the festival. So all I ever really knew was their dynamic after the festival which was a lot more stilted. Still, as I caught up with streams I did get to see the pogtopia pre-festival. But back to the topic lmao.

So, exile was heart wrenching. And then tommy ran and I remember the euphoria of it. And then the bedrock bros arc happened.

It was absolutely perfect. It build up the dynamic and it unfolded in a way where we could see the way they grew closer. The small, moments. The button room scene. The banter. Everything was so perfect. It wasn’t lore heavy, sure, but it rounded the characters so much. It rounded their friendship, the companionship. And in my opinion, that arc was great on content. I remember content was absolutely brimming. There were healing fics and everyone was full of hope.

But there’s also a part that needs to be talked about more, because it wasn’t just a ‘healing arc’, there’s something important about the arc that for me also made it more emotional. And it was the looming threat. During the arc, we all knew it was gonna end. I remember it vividly. We all knew eventually the miscommunication would come to a head. That they couldn’t ignore the fact that Tommy stood always by l’manberg, and Techno stood against it.

Their team up was bound to break because at their center, they’re vastly different people. And it’s showcased often during the arc. Plus, I felt like Techno thought he knew what Tommy wanted. He projected his hatred for l’manberg, his need for revenge against L’manberg, unto Tommy. He projected this feelings and assumed Tommy felt the same way

‘Tell Tommy I hope he finds what he’s looking for, whatever that is’

Is an acknowledgment that he doesn’t understand. He doesn’t know what Tommy wants, what he’s looking for. He thought he knew. He thought he knew Tommy wanted to destroy L’manberg, but was in denial. Then he thought Tommy just wanted it gone.

But he didn’t. Because Techno hated L’manberg for what it represented. And Tommy loved L’manberg for what it meant to him. A home, a place to belong. A happy memory. And a happy future. But to Techno, L’manberg represented a government that had tried to take his lives. A government that was corrupt, in his eyes.

But I think in a way, deep down, Techno knew a Tommy didn’t want to destroy L’manberg. He hid the details from him, after all. He swayed tommy on his side, calling what they did to L’manberg ‘minor terrorism’ because he knew Tommy wouldn’t wan’t to destroy L’manberg. But still, he convinced himself that he did know.

And there’s still something heart wrenching about their dynamic, even though we know it’s always bound to fail. I think it’s the fact that, despite having vastly different ideals and views, they worked great as a team.

They bounced off each other, they were dynamic. Techno was what Tommy needed at the moment. Someone to rely on. And while yes, it wasn’t the perfect alliance in the slightest, I think it was a great storyline to follow. It build up a dynamic between two characters that had spend the entirety of the first half of the season hating each other.

And then the green festival happened. And that’s when everything came to head. Tommy realized something that we as the viewers knew long before.

The bedrock bros arc was helping him heal, but it wasn’t making him a better person. Techno was a steady friend, but Tommy was becoming ‘everyone he never wanted to be’. He was straying away from who he was, where his ideals where. He’d spawned withers in L’manberg, something that would have been unthinkable for him before. And he realized this. He realized that he’d hurt people. And he didn’t want to be this person anymore.

And they separated. Their ideals were different. Their beliefs were different. They themselves were vastly different, opposites to one another. They’re like two sides of a coin that’s always put on the same team.

But while Techno always wins, Tommy always loses. And so at the end, they can never ally.

It’s a bittersweet arc. It’s a bittersweet ending. But at its core, it’s an arc about two people who were vastly different and who tried to work together. People who cared about each other, but could never overcome their nature.

(Also disclaimer that I am no super analyst so maybe this is wrong idk. Maybe it’s just the way I’ve seen it, or the way I interpreted the arc. But yeah those are my thoughts)