#so there's a lot of deep self-loathing about the fact that Josh couldn't/didn't do anything to help his sisters that night that he kind of | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

brittlebutch · 4 months ago

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have been thinking about Until Dawn again -- do we ever like, fully understand what Josh had planned for Matt and Emily? Like, did he steal/hide her bag or something to get them out into the woods? Or was that just some kind of coincidence that played out like he hoped it would?

#N posts stuff #outside of that one 'did Josh do that deliberately?' uncertainty i do actually grasp the full implications of his plan #better than i think i did in high school.#(my brother has a playstation he lent to us so i'm finally playing it for myself instead of just watching no commentary vids lmao)#in that like. presuming he Did send Matt and Em out there deliberately then them + Mike and Jessica are on the side of like #Josh is putting them in the same circumstances Hannah and Beth were when they left the house - he's surrendering them to whatever #circumstance and danger that his sisters went through; i watched a couple of like vid essays on the game and someone said that #Jess and Mike in particular were 'spared' by Josh sending them out to the cabin but i don't think that's what Josh was doing #given the level of control he had over everything that happened all over that mountain then I have to assume the busted power #in that cabin was Deliberate and the path they took was very messy and ill-maintained in a way that can get them both Soaked #so to me the cabin is a deliberate exposing them to the elements in a way that may well could have killed hannah and beth #plus Josh did make up some of the 'maniac' lore BUT his parents were in a lengthy legal battle with someone who Did threaten the family #so he's also well-aware that That guy could have had something to do with Hannah+Beth's disappearance and again Josh is exposing #Matt and Mike and Emily and Ashley to that danger because they were the more outward 'antagonists' in the prank on Hannah #so his revenge there is more passive but arguably Way more dangerous than what Josh had set up in the house; because again #Josh had a Huge amount of control over what was going on in there and he kept an eye on everyone the whole time #He's basically the only threat on the field - he can account for the weather and outside threats etc. in a way he Doesn't do for anyone els #and even tho they don't know it JOSH knows that he's not going to physically Harm anyone inside the house. so they're ultimately Safer #his deliberately more Antagonistic 'revenge' on the others who seemed to have less to do with the prank is also kind of double edged #ie; for 1) Josh overall sees the whole thing as a net Positive for them - he was going to post it online w/ the intent of making #them all famous sensations; obviously he knows it's terrifying them deliberately in a real dire way but as a Whole it's supposed to be 'goo #and as for Why he scares them so thoroughly out of everyone i think it's mostly bc Josh does see Himself as culpable that night as well #dr. Hill has that line about how he doesn't know if it's like. worse to threaten someone or passively allow them to come to harm or whateve #so there's a lot of deep self-loathing about the fact that Josh couldn't/didn't do anything to help his sisters that night that he kind of #turns outwards against the other people who were also less Directly culpable in that same way (Sam tries to stop the prank #but fails; Ashley more passively went along with it than deliberately participated; Chris was also drunk + incapacitated)#so it's almost a collective 'WE fucked it up bc we didn't do Enough' kind of punishment hence the invocation of Hannah and Beth's #terror and uncertainty on that night -- We didn't do Enough and so this is what they suffered because of us in that way #but again; Josh had immense control over that house and he Knew everyone was Physically safe so even though he's Scaring them #he's also not putting them In Danger in the same way he does everyone else by shutting them out of the house + out in the snow

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