#ii s2 ep8

[xinnamonbun]

Wait a damn minute...

Ok, so I was rewatching season 2 episode 8 (totally not because I was looking for hot air balloon references fornoparticularreason and whatever that totally no particular reason is definitely doesn't involve Suitloon) but while I was watching it I noticed something that I did NOT catch my first time watching

I not only did not remember this line at all (but he deserves it he sucks or maybe they made him suck? Idk) but also I'd like to point out everyone's reaction.

Pretty much everyone is just like "wtf?" However two notable ones are Knife's and Paintbrush's reaction.

Knife looks kind of sympathetic but honestly more confused, probably a "why are you talking about this" with a hint of sympathy. I would NOT be surprised if Knife doesn't have the best relationship with his parents himself, it would explain a lot of his behavior in season 1 and most of season 2.

And then for some reason Paintbrush looks particularly sympathetic. I'm not going to lie because of Paintbrush's reluctancy to tell people about their identity for a long time I already had a guess that they might not have had the best relationship with their parents. But this just straight of confirms it.

Yes they could just be sympathetic with the situation without going through it themselves, but it seems like an odd detail especially when other characters that usually show MORE sympathy don't seem to be showing any.

The things you randomly find when you're just trying to get references for a ship kid- I mean what?

(I just thought that this is interesting, if you have anything else to add I'd love to hear it!)

[greenqueenhightower]

Alicent offering up Aegon's life was the ultimate sacrifice, and there is no surprise that yet again, it is religiously coded. God himself offered up his firstborn "only-begotten" Son, Jesus Christ, as a sacrifice for the survival of humanity. Alicent's pain for having to do the same with Aegon is immeasurable. Did she think she was actually redeeming Aegon if she condemned him to death, thus giving him a new birth? Did she want to save him from a life of disgrace and disability? Is it his turn to become a sacrifice for the good of her family as she had become?

Like God, Alicent had to offer what she held dear for the survival of all her children and family. Aegon being her firstborn, the carrier of her flaws and the mirror of her psyche, was the only choice. His fate has always been so linked with hers that in sacrificing him for her and her daughter’s freedom, in severing the umbilical cord with him so abruptly, she condemns her own life to death in the process. That’s the only way Alicent can pay retribution for everyone's sins, and Aegon's messianic sacrifice can ensure peace, deliverance, and hope. She's the one who, like Viserys said, "must do this" and pay the highest price ever paid. She makes the ultimate sacrifice at the expense of herself and her son and in effect has done much more to unite the realm than Rhaenyra ever has.

[daily-lightbulbii]

[asideofchaos]

II 16 Spoilers Ahead!

So I see a lot of people panicking that the contestants aren't real, but I don't that's what the whole "MePhone Created Everyone" was supposed to mean.

Because yes, MePhone made them and we see Suitcase and Knife glitch at the end, but we also see repeatedly that the contestants have their own souls and free will. Sure, there is definitely parts of them that MePhone came up with; such as PB's fire and the S2 Finalist not remembering the S3 time skip, but we see again and again the contestants doing things that MePhone does not want.

Case and point: Taco. Everything about Taco. Not only was she secretly smart without MePhone knowing, but she 1. tried to steal the million dollars, 2. hid in the woods for who-knows how long, 3. conspired with and manipulated running contestants, 4. kidnapped his assistant, and 5. took over the show for an entire episode. If MePhone had control over her then none of that would have even happened.

Outside of Taco, almost all of the contestants do things that MePhone does not want, such as:

Bow never leaving no matter how many times she was punched with the Fist-Thingy

The eliminated S1 contestants trying to escape Idiotic Island

Paper going insane and everything with Evil Paper happening

The Cherries launching Marshmallow to space where she would be unrecoverable

OJ suing MePhone and threatening to do it again

Tissues making MePhone sick

Suitcase developing horrible anxiety and hallucinations

Microphone taking Taco's deal

Lightbulb using Fan to fly (which we see MePhone call out as cheating)

Marshmallow running away to live in Purgatory Mansion

Lightbulb and Test Tube traveling back in time

Paintbrush painting Steve Cobs and then burning the entire field

Lightbulb and Test Tube finding the Gemories

Fan rushing out to get the egg

Knife not telling MePhone about Taco

Fan and Test Tube creating Bot to bring back Bow; who MePhone did not like

The Eliminated S3 contestants being able to go back to the hotel

Box getting hit with a hammer, falling down a mountain, and then bursting into flames when MePhone did not have a medic

The Floor not being able to be eliminated and almost erupting the volcano

Blueberry faking his own death

Silver Spoon letting his aura get the better of him and almost killing Candle

Lightbulb avoiding telling everyone about what is happening

And those are just the things that are coming to mind, I'm sure there are things that I missed, but there's even more compelling questions. If the contestants are fake, then why do they need a place to go when eliminated if MePhone could make them not exist anymore? What about everything going on in Hotel OJ, Idiotic Island, and Indefinite Island without MePhone knowledge; especially for the last one since he didn't even know it existed until Ep10. If the BFDI crossovers and Nickel's early comments in S1 are to be believed, then at one point Nickel had somehow tried to join BFDI instead!

Even in II 16, we see that the contestants can have their life sucked out of them, which shouldn't be possible if they don't have souls, meaning that they have to. There's also how Bow and Dough are both ghosts and how everyone can be body-swapped in S3 Ep8, or even how MePhone can revive them in the first place with all of their memories and personality intact. None of this should be possible if the contestants are fake.

That's not even mentioning that we already know what a fake contestant looks like with the replicas that Spring made in S3 Ep13! They can't talk and they have few emotions, which is in complete opposition to everyone else in Inanimate Insanity.

Even if MePhone made them in the first place, there is so much saying that yes, the contestants are real.

[owarinaki]

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[ehh-is-the-name]

I was gonna hide all this in the tags, but nah I've got too much to say.

How many times do I gotta say this- Captialism is colonialism and Cobs is CANONICALLY a COLONIZER.

The Prime Shimmer LITERALLY says 'you bare the mark of the oppressor' when looking at the fuckin' meeple logo. Cobs quite literally sent phones to new land to acquire more resources (the prime shimmer's energy). Which is, you know exactly what colonizers do?

Anyway, yes capitalism is Cobs and it's VERY hard to ignore that when you actually look into that plot line. What started out as probably a bit to bash on Apple releasing products every year has kinda turned into a theme about capitalism's flaws.

We know that Cobs doesn't consider his products to be anything but tools to push the image of his company, from the first appearance of 4S. He created a new product, to literally eradicate the old one to convince the public that it's not what they need.

I think that's what you're getting at with the:

capitalism literally solves the plotholes in mephones’ relationship with cobs and his absence outside of ii.

Cobs has, and most-likely, always will see MePhone as a product that symbolises his company. A product that is straining the company image, and in ways, wallet too. It's why he wants to cut him off but also not waste more money that he already has.

When Cobs set up A.D.A.M to be the producer for s1, it was because he wanted control of his brand image, but as said earlier, new product means something better to show off to the consumers. He even says it in s2 ep8 that the fuckin' fights they have on the show are good advertising.

The whole thing of Cobs in II is this weird back-and-forth between near-genuinely wanting MePhone gone while generating buzz for Meeple! He's taking an "all publicity is good publicity" stance- or the more clear cut, "It don't matter if they hate you if they all know your name" stance.

Capitalism keeps the contestants coming back, capitalism holds MePhone in a headlock as he tries to reject "his purpose" albeit conceding to it via hosting the show itself, and capitalism is what keeps Cobs' grubby little corn hands on every string attached to the show. For fuck's sake, Nickel is a ticket scalper- how would that not be primetime capitalism-

Yeah, I'm going on like 3 conflicting tangents- rant done.

okay time to break my silence

WHY ARENT WE TALKING ABOUT CAPITALISM WHEN IT COMES TO II???

like ignore political-wise, storywise it would actually be PHENOMENAL???

capitalism literally affects every aspect of our lives, it literally made mephone put season 2 on hiatus because he was afraid of the mindless greed of capital gain.

capitalism literally solves the plotholes in mephones’ relationship with cobs and his absence outside of ii.

capitalism IS cobs.

capitalism shows what the contestants will do for money (cliche take but a valuable one)

capitalism keeps a.d.a.m. still valid plot wise (we miss u bbg 😔)

this is like… the most basic 101 stuff and i have been researching capitalism for like… FOREVER

i need someone who thinks like meeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuhhhhh

or i hope this post convinces you to think about capitalism more

edit: i should add i put HEAVY emphasis on the fact that it effects EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES. so just adding it to your story will make it more juicy

if this gets 5 likes ill post an art peice

[green-arrxws]

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[ehh-is-the-name]

Finally all caught up in inanimate insanity! I gotta say, when I first watched s3 I didn’t get any of the references to the old seasons since it had been years since I watched them last, but watching them all in order (and in one siting...) made it all click. Especially with the new ep!! 

[after this point it just goes into s2 and s3 theory insanity]

Mephone4 with the anxiety from A.D.A.M being made by cobs and such: 

OR the part where he says that he gets to lengthen his vacation

(I’m showing my bias aren’t I?)

Since I watched it all in succession, I’ve been connecting s3 to s2 a lot more than I did upon watching the s3 eps the first time around. And because of that, I’ve been making theories!! (Or well, at least strings of thought.) I was first thinking that Mephone4 erased his memories again and started another season, because (I think) he was talking to Mepad about that, but with the newer s3 eps yeah that was a dud. (Plus there was this bit, but a fan can theorize, right?)

 I also think there was a part about him saying he needed a vacation in s2, but I can’t find the part so... Source: Dude, trust me. Which would play into him wanting to extending III for at least just a bit longer. (Or even forever since he said that in s3 ep8:

Which I think is interesting, since for a good chunk of s2, it seemed like he just wanted the show to be over.) I think because II s2 got really heavy for him, he just started another one on some middle of nowhere island away from his issues. He just wants to go back to a time before it was beyond the game... same dude. ANYWAY, I’m getting ahead of myself. With s3 already getting some foreshadowing for being over fast (s3 ep10), I think we’ll get more insight into him as the season goes on. I’m praying we do tbh. And a bit away from Mephone, what the hell happened to Mepad? I think we’re a good distance into s3 to at least figure out if Mepad is still in rest mode with Taco using their(?) teleporting power. I hope this’ll get addressed at some point. 

Moving along from these Meeple products, GOD I WANNA KNOW HOW LIGHTBULB IS DOING!! We literally left her alone without her rag-tag team! That was, like, a huge deal!!! In s2 ep14, we literally got a ref to her “I drink when I’m depressed” line and other telling lines:

(for context, Test tube and Fan walk through the portal for OJ then this scene:)

-

I also just think that this (^) scene is a little ironic since we don’t see her again, but more importantly, you see what I mean???

Lightbulb is still in s2, and idk if that means she has/had access to the hotel during the two years between s2 and s3 or not, but I’m assuming she didn’t because... idk I just am. But with LB in s2 and literally all her friends either in OJ’s hotel (Fan), Indefinite Island (Test Tube), and III (Paintbrush), how’s she fairing alone? From these pics, it’s clear that it would be really getting to her...

I remember the first time I started watching s3 eps back in like, what 2021? I was thinking that they weren’t as deep as s2, but after getting all the context. DAMN! I’d say it’s just as deep but maybe not so depressing. 

Also, I whole heartily get why that one post said that these two just started making out as soon as the got to the island...

S3 made them gayer than they were before and I need to know how Baseball and Suitcase would react. 

Over and out.

[xinnamonbun]

MeLife

-Support ending on older devices

Me RN:

[the-chessboard-is-personal]

yeap

ep5 6:26 - p. PENISLAND. nice one Pen

ep7 3:45 - hmmm I wonder if there's perhaps a contestant that was once human until they tried a product from a random commercial...

ep8 9:44 - an entire two minutes of Ice Cube being tortured. why lmao?

ep9 1:00 - Bomb?? wait this is from before ii.. woah. crossover

ep11 2:16 - well that was very Thirteen Years Ago of you

ep12 6:18 - Taco ii 🤝 Rocky bfdi seemingly armless character that doesn't talk much and also vomits stuff. hmm I wonder if Rocky will end up being actually really smart and pretending to be dumb to not get votes..

ep12 7:00 - Lightbulb, Paper, Marshmallow, Nickel- oh that's Quarter. and Candle (kinda)????

ep13 1:13 - hmmm remodeling the elimination area multiple times in quick succession, where have I seen that before.. /silly

ep14 7:02 oh fuck that's a lot. Spoon (close enough yeah?), Paintbrush, Cherries, Balloon, Suitcase, Taco, Box..y, Apple and actual Nickel are the ones seen in ii I think. did I get them all?

ep15 1:18 - ._. ...Blueberry, Cheesy, Knife, Pickle(kinda), Microphone(kinda), Bomb(kinda), Snappy as an honorable mention bc of the cameras in ii, Box(kinda), Apple, Cherries(kinda)

ep16 0:10 - wh. what. why. please no- oh okay good

ep16 2:43 - Nickel, honorable mention Camery, Cheesy(kinda), Bomb(kinda), Orange, Fan(kinda..?), Ipad is kinda like MePad? ..I have a feeling I'm going to have to do this every episode-

ep17 1:24 - yknow what I'm not doing this anymore I have a costume to make. if I see YinYang in a crowd though I will say so

ep17 9:06 - Balloon(kinda), Bomb(kinda), bHUH- um. Fan(kinda), Nickel, Nonexisty, Taco,

ep18 1:33 - Baseball, Balloon and hey hold on why does Elimination Contestants look like that not all of those guys have been eliminated- ......hey I have a theory. Pencil is gonna win. because Elimination Contestants consists of everyone else. huh.

ep19 0:23 - well that's

ep19 4:56 - what the fuck is Announcer's diary about-

ep20 5:45 - no YinYang but Sepper and Danny kind of look similar a little bit

ep22 6:34 - well that was a neat episo[steven universe related flashbacks] uoh

ep23 3:46 - ohh the final competition being all of the previous ones.. tbh I genuinely really like how similar bfdi and ii are.

ep25 0:28 - ........................................sigh. skipping 1b, it's "yeah what is it now I see you are taking the word with the place of the episode number this is is (a or message, depending on if hup is a word) no coincidence". great

ep25 1:56 - wait. enhance. slow it down. bring it back. do I see..

perhaps? kinda?? who these are I will never know, as they are not labeled.

CHESS MENTIONED

lmao- oh hey it's MePhone 4

overall, eh. maybe it's just that I've seen ii recently so it takes a lot of Angst to get much of a reaction from me, but it's alright

probably about the reaction I had to ii s1 idk i don't remember things

I'll watch s2 later maybe

watching bfdi and I gotta say. this is just how ii started but with different characters /silly

might turn this into a liveblog idk (<- has just finished episode 1)

[greenqueenhightower]

The fact that the season is over, and we didn’t get another Alicent x Aegon scene hurt me the most 💔😭 It was so tragic that Aegon left the Red Keep alone, without having spoken to his mother and never knowing how much she worried for him. Never being awake all the nights she spent by his bed. I so wish we saw them interact once more, which would then make Alicent’s sacrifice more meaningful/comprehensible.

Can you imagine Aegon’s reaction when the first thing he learns in S3 is that KL has fallen and his mother aided Rhaenyra in exchange for his head? And Alicent’s astonishment at finding Aegon is gone, (I still like to think that she had warned Larys about what she would do in order to save him)? Or what about Rhaenyra when she finds out that Alicent “betrayed” their agreement when Aegon is nowhere to be found, and she can’t kill him?

I know that what we got sets up more tension in S3 with Alicent, Aegon, and Rhaenyra, but I would love one more farewell scene.

[daily-lightbulbii]

[owarinaki]

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[daily-lightbulbii]

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[owarinaki]

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