#but her origin story is bullshit and i can't accept brain's treatment of her as canon

[megalomice]

thoughts on "all's fair in love and door" (more of a rant)

i tried to like it but honestly...no. i hate it. i did like that brain finally showed remorse for what he did to julia, but it just makes no sense for him to be in love with her. i can't get over that. it's completely one-sided. how could julia love him after what he put her through?? there's zero chemistry between them and idk why this pairing even exists

here's one very big issue i had with this episode - brain, when explaining his attraction to julia, states the following: "(julia)'s the only mouse i've ever met whose ambition, intelligence, and excellent bone structure match my own" WTF??

this is so backwards. julia having intelligence that rivals brain's should've been a TURN OFF for him. it's a well known fact that brain is morosexual. HE'S CANONLY ATTRACTED TO MORONS.

billie started out as a moron. billie also looks like a genderbent pinky, and brain was infatuated with her. actually, in later episodes where billie is more intelligent, brain seems less into her than he was before lmao. i'm not fond of billie, but at least brain's attraction to her, y'know, makes sense!!

trudy was also a little air-headed (at least that was how she came off). and by contrast, mousey galore was intelligent. even if brain may have flirted with her (more for the james bond parody than anything) he clearly wasn't attracted to her.

so, they should've at least made julia stupid if they wanted to make this convincing. like,, you expect me to accept this as canon? three episodes from the reboot trying to establish this weird julia/brain "romance" somehow trumps the established canon from the 90s animaniacs segments and patb spinoff? nahhh, try harder.

here's what i did like: the idea of brain trying to conform to heteronormativity and the door being a metaphor for him being in the closet. brain has always been very closed off emotionally and i agree that it's in-character for him to repress his sexuality. if the episode would've focused on that much more interesting problem instead of the same "julia goes berserk and tries to kill brain" schtick we got in the last julia episode, maybe i would've liked it more.

i also appreciate that we've gotten some pretty explicit confirmation that brain is bi this season. specific to this episode, the hand-holding with pinky, brain calling him "dear" and how pinky was clearly more important to him than the julia simulation. it was nice to see brain getting so protective of pinky in this segment. at least we got that.

sooooo yeah. mfw we get another julia episode where brain is mischaracterized: