#i do not know how to define diane's feelings for bojack but i'm certain he's in love with diane.

[jennycalendar]

omg im so happy youre talking about diane and bojack sharing some tension and feelings while it being always repressed by them and never touched on after s1, even tho the audience can feel its lingering. what do you think wouldve happened if they had gotten together? what kind of messes would they have gotten into?

oh wow this is such a fun question to receive!!! entirely because the whole time i've been watching i've just been like (eyes emoji) about diane and bojack, because i feel like (imo) they have some more-than-just-superficial-attraction romantic feelings for each other. BUT THE THING IS i'm sorta of the mind that they just legitimately cannot get together? like i absolutely cannot see a timeline where that happens, specifically because diane is so fundamentally philosophically opposed to her feelings for bojack. admitting in full that she has feelings for bojack would mean surrendering her efforts to do and be better, which (paradoxically) would mean she's not the person that bojack is so drawn to.

like we actually see them very tentatively brush close to the concept of something romantic happening right after diane's divorce, which i think is soooooooooo telling! that the first time diane entertains a relationship with bojack is when she's drunk and extremely emotionally all over the place and her marriage to the man she admired for his optimism and positivity and cuddly comfort has gone down in flames in large part because SHE was dissatisfied with it (this to me is key. that she was dissatisfied with it. that in a lot of ways in that marriage diane is made to feel like she's the problem element for not just Appreciating Mr. Peanutbutter). she starts going "hey isn't it weird that we're both single? we could both make out :)" and bojack responds by being REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE every time diane hints at anything romantic, because -- again -- they have this fundamental and very fucked up connection that's dependent on her NOT wanting anything to do with him romantically! if diane wants to be with bojack, that's diane saying "i give up. there's no way for me to become a better person. i want to be with someone who's also given up, because that comforts me." no coincidence that their moments of incredibly intense intimacy are literally all diane's lowest points (her crashing at his place in s2, them holing up and getting drunk when her house is underground, her divorce!! hello!)

sooooo i think that might be my answer to your question? i genuinely can't imagine them getting together specifically because their whatever-it-is hinges on them never getting together. the minute diane comes onto bojack, bojack is going to pull back, because he Gets her on this fundamental level and he knows that her coming onto him is her giving up, and i just so cannot see him being comfortable with that. we see sooo many moments when he's Not comfortable with that in the show. i honestly think he's the kindest to diane out of literally everyone we see him with and that is harrowing and also crazy compelling to me. my brain literally melts if i try to imagine them together. i think it would have to be a hyperspecific and INCREDIBLY apocalyptic set of circumstances. probably multiple people either die or are dead.