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Episodes I Watch Way Too Closely: Episode 133 - Dewey Wins

Life and death and love and birth and Dewey and the Hindenburg.

This episode involves a lot of me picking out - and possibly conflating – a bunch of different types of symbols or themes or analogies for characters and ships, and then it kind of devolves into a bunch of predictions. Then it's an attempt at the labanotation for an interpretive dance with a lot of screaming.

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Steven has just gotten back to Earth from his big trial on Homeworld. Connie is upset because she felt Steven ditched her after all the training and effort they put into working as a team and Connie leaves. We then learn the next day that Mayor Dewey has Nanefua Pizza as an opponent for the first time in his decade-long tenure because he is being blamed for the abductions that occurred during the previous episodes with Aquamarine.

Feeling responsible for the abductions himself, Steven tries to help repair the damage to Bill's image by giving a speech, which backfires when Bill doesn't realize who Lars is. Trying to repair the additional damage, Steven stays up all night with Bill to help prepare for a debate with Nanefua the next day. Bill ultimately resigns as mayor in the middle of the debate, realizing Nanefua is more fit for the job than he is. Steven feels betrayed by Bill in a similar way Connie felt betrayed by Steven, and Steven gains some perspective as a result.

Let's start this off with full disclosure: I'm not giving up my gem analog theory thing where Bill and Jamie correspond to Ruby and Sapphire any time soon; I also have a thing about dualities in various SU ships that I'll touch on in a second - but – BUT! There's also lots of weird symbolism just for individual characters going on as well. It's like this show weirdly likes to foreshadow characters that are about to show up, whether in colors or symbols.

Connie is standing next to Steven's mailbox and the ocean is behind her. Mail for Jamie would be the obvious one and I notice they've been pushing that more in later episodes, but I think his main symbol is the sea or more broadly, water.

There’s all the weird symbolism with Bill and the sun in various episodes - not to mention his constant sunburn.

Nanefua actually has quite a moon vibe going on! Lots of spherical grey stuff going on in her character design – the big granny glasses and her hairstyle. In that same first scene, the moon is out. We later see a sun in the t-shirt shop as Sadie and Steven walk by, then we see Nanefua and Bill in that order. The only one out of order this time is Jamie – we see references to him first but actually see him last. Huh, I wonder why.

Because I have only gone back and watched the episodes where Bill and/or Jamie have speaking roles, I probably am missing symbolism like this for the other humans as well, and I don't know if this is something they do with gems.

Anyway, the moon and the sun as rivals totally makes sense to me – a successful matriarch versus an unsuccessful patriarch. I can't help but also think about how the moon controls the tides? Is this some weird thing where Nanefua is going to try to rein Jamie's theater stuff? Budget cuts or something?

The other thing I was thinking about is how a lot of the ships in the show deal with sort of dualities. Ruby and Sapphire would be the obvious one with fire and ice; Sadie and Lars get life and death. Even though they're only a one-episode ship, I think happiness and sadness with Mr. Smiley and Mr. Frowney is pretty apparent. The theme between authority and subordinate with Pink Diamond and Pearl might be another.

The speculative one is Bill and Jamie - I think they might be either light and dark or day and night? There's all the stuff with Bill and the sun I just mentioned; there's also just the sort of obvious thing of Bill being (coded as) white and Jamie being darker. Also, Jamie's theater stuff – his true calling - tends to happen at night, the more mundane reason being because he's off work by then, I'd guess. Despite how badly he messed up during the day, Bill also seemed to be pretty miserable after pulling an all-nighter with Steven to prepare for the debate! Even back to Political Power he mentions nighttime being scary because that's when the town turns into a mob.

What a metaphor for pining lovers and all that cheesy business if that's true, right? The light and darkness intimately linked yet never meeting. It'd be cool if something happened between them at sunset, or dawn. Oh, dawn might make sense – opening of donut shops, mail delivery... hm! Oh oh their little dance in Reunited happens at sunset! Enough though, back to the episode!

There's my new hero Nanefua with her cute little scarf and green sweater and her telling the town how it works! Mayor Billiam is so doomed. This is the first time Bill has to run opposed – which makes sense! This town would have to be pretty apathetic to live there and put up with all the weird things that go on.

(look at the weird impossible in rl cartoon physics backwards self-hug he’s giving himself here... yeesh)

Steven feels guilty about all this because Bill is being blamed for the abductions.

Steven: If only I could have warned you about this abduction stuff sooner then everything would be fine now. I really dropped the ball.

Bill: Huh. You're right, Universe. This is all your fault!

He sounds downright happy about this. How convenient!

Am I smelling the tiniest pumpkin spice whiff of self-sabotage here? I don't think he is ruthless enough to pretend to forget Lars to like, RUIN his chances against Nanefua or anything. He is definitely stressed and out-of-touch enough to forget who the local donut boy was; he's been bad with names before.

I do wonder if he saw an opponent as a blessing in disguise though. He even might have known that Steven was going to fail in some way? If anything, an even worse thing he did here than forget Lars was play on Steven's guilt to alleviate his own. If Steven messed it up, Bill would feel like the responsibility of messing up the whole family legacy thing wasn't directly his fault.

Maybe the symbolic-type reference we see to Jamie with the sea and the mailbox in the beginning hints at Bill's motivation for wanting to give up the mayorship in some way?

A common complaint I hear about this episode is that it's so ridiculous that a Steven, a kid, is helping Bill with his political career – but it looks like Bill really isn't even in the game at this point anymore. He never actively ASKS for help, in fact he kind of protests, talking about how the town is saying hurtful things about him. For narrative purposes, we have to see the story through Steven's point of view somehow, and this makes it so we also have a glimpse into Steven's state of mind, too. It makes you wonder if Steven wasn't around, would Bill even be fighting this, really? Where did all that ego go?

By the next morning, Bill and Steven look like me after I have been writing meta for three minutes. Bill's speech is worth repeating here, mostly because he feels like he's taken the blame for everything, pretty much all the time:

“When you're the Mayor you get blamed for everything – when the boardwalk has termites, it's the mayor's fault. When aliens steal people, it's the mayor's fault. When the mayor crashes the Mayor Mobile into the only cell tower in town, it's the Mayor's fault! Most people can't handle that kind of pressure – but I CAN!"

He says, as he's completely falling apart, because he obviously cannot handle that kind of pressure.

This is the first time we see Jamie again after 'Are You My Dad' and 'I Am My Mom', standing in the crowd during the debate. Because he's more or less a background boardie in this episode, we don't see much of ANYTHING with regard to how massively traumatized he could be from events of the previous episodes he was in. Jamie very visibly does not clap at the end of either of the speeches. In fact, he just kind of stares up during Bill's speech, looking vaguely disappointed or possibly confused? Jamie sticks out a of the crowd a little by standing off to the side. It's very obvious that they put him in the crowd for the viewer to be able to fully see him.

Interestingly, Mr. Smiley is standing there next to Jamie in most of the shots in the crowd. Initially, I thought of Mr. Smiley showing up as our gay bat-signal - telling us there’s gay stuff going on and you should pay attention, and he might be that! But I see now that Mr. Smiley is more than just a symbol. I already posted a theory about this to tumblr, and I’ll probably talk about it some more when I post my meta about Letters to Lars here.

Moving on, pink and blue behind Nanefua and another big old spherical moon-looking thing as she gives her uplifting amazing speech – oh, just give her the job!

Jamie cracks a smile at the end of Nanefua's speech, because it was a good one and it makes, ya know, sense! You could also take this as Jamie being optimistic Bill might lose the election.

Now, why would Jamie be happy about that?

I'm sure you know at this point that everything in this show has to be indirect – you can't just have a Bill up and say "I didn't think it was appropriate to date you because we're both men and what would the town think omg", for example. The writers have to bury it in layers for various reasons – and it's also just kind of cool in storytelling dynamics because the messages can become more universal and apply to multiple themes or plot points, all while still appealing to certain audiences, too. It speaks to how skilled the writers are – no room for lazy writing, for sure.

So, most of the evidence I have so far points to both Jamie and Bill having a thing for each other but not being able to act on it. The main thing I think we'll see explained as the reason for 'thing keeping them apart' is something along the lines of 'the mayor couldn't date the mailman'. They might even explain that it wasn't appropriate because Bill was in a position of authority as an elected official, or that there was a conflict of interest because blah blah theater stuff, or even in the SU world post offices are run by the city or something and that would make Jamie technically a city employee. Who knows?

Now that I think about it, I wonder if this might be something they'll get into as a parallel to Pink Diamond and Pearl with the idea of rank, but that pairing is well covered in meta so I'm not going to get into that here.

Anyway, the point I'm getting at here is that little smile could be speaking volumes in an episode where Jamie doesn't even speak. Sure, it was a good speech, but also - if Bill isn't mayor anymore, that conflict of interest disappears. They could be together.

One last thing about Bill's character development I can't help but bring up:

“Come on, Universe – you know she's going to be a better mayor than me. It was the right thing to do!”

Oh man, fiction sometimes is so much better than real life, especially lately. Think about how egotistical Bill normally seems - what a huge thing to admit for him – that's growth!

That's it for this bus crash! My next episode review is going to be the final one that gets me up-to-date, and that's Letters to Lars! It's got letters AND Lars in it!

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Five Feet Apart (2019) had a good start, until half of the movie.

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First of all, as soon as Poe died, the only gay character, somehow they made his death more about the girl protagonist than the character itself.

It was so weird how the doctors kept the door open and looked at the girl saying "I'm sorry" and then Will was looking at it with this 'strange' face like he was seeing some weird circus act.

Later Stella decides to escape and walk all night to some far away city and brings Will with her. My problem comes with the fact that she does that when people were mourning for her best friend. And she just walks all night like its a romantic rebelling moment.

Then they got into this iced river, (Don't know how to call it) and Stella gets news that her lungs are here, but she suddendly doesn't care about it anymore. Bringing more stress to her family, and doctors. Not only she was missing, she was losing the opportunity of NEW LUNGS.

Later Will finds out and tells her to comeback but Stella acts this stupid joke where she falls and can't breath?? And when Will realize she's joking and comes to take her THE WAY SHE DISAPPEARED IN THE RIVER LMAOO.

Was I supposed to feel worried? Because i couldn't stop laughing. There was no sound, no scream, she just got abducted by the river like alien stuff.

And at this point I was so upset with Stella. Will took her out and had to give her mouth to mouth, only for him to start dying. Ohh yeah, because she's going to get new lungs, but what about him? This is not good for him.

Finally these two are at the hospital and Stella keeps insisting she doesn't want it because idkkk. Until Will convinces her in seconds.

What I found weird is how all this happened in one night.

It was Will's birthday, then Poe died, then Stella and Will run away, then there are new lungs, then these two almost die. And finally Stella gets surgery.

And this is where it gets SO FUNNY.

While the girl is in surgery, Will makes a surprise plan with everyone for Stella. And I thought 'Well this is the really romantic part, im sure'. But no! Is the opposite? Like, everyone looked so happy only for her surprise to be him breaking up with her.

And while he's saying to her those 'romantic words' (I don't remember what he said I was laughing too much) she's crying her eyes out JUST AFTER SHE WOKE UP, omg, let her rest for some hours at least. And the funny face the actress was pulling. She couldn't even talk because she had this thing in her mouth.

DUDE, you could have waited for her to feel better and maybe say something back while you are telling her you won't see her again. Lmfao

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Anyways, it was too funny and wierd to take seriously. Makes me sad because it was an ok movie until the ending.

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