the parallels between shawn and yang are IN-FUCKING-SANE! an only child who’s father wanted them to be the spitting image of him; a father who was never satisfied with their work and always found a reason to shun them. a father that make growing up into a good person hard/a father that made growing up into a bad person easy. yang loves shawn because he’s what she could’ve been if she rose above her father’s teachings. and shawn despises her even after she saved his life because she’s every bad part of himself he couldn’t shake from his childhood. yang takes a picture with shawn to remind her of the goodness in her; shawn hates her because she’s everything he’s scared that he is.
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Shawn acts like his life is a play constantly. Like he's in some sort of theatre performing or in some sort of skit with a laughing track in the background . Even though I'm aware psych is a comedy, shawn does not need to act the way he does to MAKE it a comedy. No other character acts as theatrical, nonsensical, and dramatic as shawn does, which leads me to believe this is a character trait, not just a byproduct of the show genre.
He sees his life as some big game. Like a performance that he participates in to make pop culture references, bizarre jokes, and flirty comments to make things interesting to an auidence that doesn't exist( at least in his reality). It's only when things become REAL that shawn actually shows any of the darker sides to his personality. I deffo do think he has some sort of personality disorder because he acts SO different on the surface from the far more analytical, almost antisocial personality below it all.
When anything breaks the illusion to him that his life ISNT some sort of game or play. When things get emotional , when stakes are high, when his friends are in danger or his family , shawns entire exterior personality crumbles. He becomes the opposite to everything he is normally compleatly shutting down. In the first yang episode for example he gets very mad and very upset. He consistently asks Gus to make things more lighthearted and like normal eventhough it's extreamly inappropriate given the stakes. He needs to stay in that illusion to be able to not only think clearly , but too distract himself from reality and dissociate himself from it entirely to feel a sense of stability which he does on a constant already.
Also with the first yang ep or any time he has to be forced to be serious, he seems to become a lot more closed in, emotional, and insecure which is alarming considering he has a huge ego usually about things and wouldn't just bail. He goes overwhelmingly out of character that it's hard not to notice the stark contrast.
Shawn clearly doesn't want to address the issues he has and the issues of his life. Or his emotional problems. He doesn't like being or feeling vulnerable either, so instead , he just acts as though there isn't anything wrong in the first place. If he doesn't see it, it's not there , right?
(I really love analysing shawn. He's such a deep and interesting character)
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Psy-pider Man my Spider-Man oc that is definitely not just Shawn Spencer if he got spider powers /j
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I feel like "Yang 3 in 2d" could have spent just a bit more time on the whole "Shawn has been being stalked by a serial killer since he was a teen/preteen" revelation
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Thinking about the Yin Yang trilogy in Psych. A show that was a comedy. I mean yeah it was also a crime/drama but it was predominantly a comedy. Like B99.
But of all the storylines and subplots and arcs within the show, (tbf I only got up to s7 but still) the Yin Yang trilogy was fuckin WILD. Like...yeah sure B99 has some intense stories. Show Me Going and Moo Moo (?) or whatever had me on edge. And then those ones with Jake in prison and then in witness protection cuz of whoever.
But the Yin Yang trilogy was a whole ass psychological thriller. Well the first two at least. But still, the show is predominantly a comedy and you Can get serious storylines in comedy. But that's a whole other level. The closest thing I can think of for B99 is The Box.
The Yin Yang trilogy had me on the edge of my seat tho holy shit. And when Shawn tells Gus that him making jokes is how he's dealing with such a stressful situation. Because people's actual lives are on the line if Shawn can't beat Mr Yang. And we find out the final target is his mother. And then in Mr Yang Presents, Shawn is forced to save only one of two people. And ofc you can't be in two places at once.
But seriously, you watch any other episode and they're mostly comedy light-hearted fun. Ofc there's the episodes after Juliette finds out the truth about Shawn which adds some drama and tension. But overall it's nothing on how fuckin intense the Yin Yang trilogy was. AND IT'S A COMEDY.
It's a comedy that did a psychological thriller story really fuckin well too. Like...I'm not sure what I would've expected had I know what I'd be in for when I was first watching it. But my god did those episodes go hard. For me the first two were more memorable but still. They didn't Need that ongoing plot but they did it. And they executed it so goddamn well.
AAAAAAAA THOSE EPISODES ARE SO GOOD
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The yin yang trilogy has me in a chokehold, so I decided to draw them in some of the outfits they wore (sorry for poor quality).
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