Welcome to the madness

As someone who's favorite Moral Orel episode was Passing and has watched it over and over again, I really feel like I gotta put my thoughts out there, because I feel like a lot of interesting things about it are missed. Maybe it's because this show has caught the eye of many younger than the target audience. Or maybe it's because we see how Clay and Arthur turn out to be, and that skews our view of them before. I just gotta say it: Arthur Puppington is not a man who went too far in his understandable jealousy, he was disgustingly immature for being jealous of his son in the first place.

The idea that Clay was stealing Angela away from Arthur is already pretty ridiculous. Clay is a child in this episode, a child does not have the kind of agency to be a threat to an adult relationship. It's also a stretch to think he has his Oedipus complex this early on. While he sure was babied a lot, what also counts the lack of love received elsewhere for many years on. Also part of the idea of an Oedipus complex is jealousy against the father, and Clay did want love and attention from Arthur, even while Angela was still alive. The more I watched how Clay’s prank played out, the less I felt he cared about getting back at Angela. He must have planned it before learning about his siblings as the use of ketchup earlier clearly inspired him to use it as fake blood. And his upset is immediately over once he’s gotten both of his parents’ attention, not at all lingering on how he wasn’t an only child until a far later age. Clay never had any reason to doubt his mother loved him, but he did have reason to think he wouldn’t have seen both of his parents show equal care for him, together, in the same room. They were growing distant from each other.

Looking further into Arthur and his marriage with Angela… When he looks at that photo of them, it's not just a photo of when they were first in love. As said elsewhere in this episode, Angela would heavily smoke, drink and do stunts when she was younger. He looks back on a version of Angela that he thought was unbreakable, but was inevitably going to slow down one day. He indulged in her impulsiveness, and kept getting her pregnant over and over even when she hadn’t yet changed her lifestyle for child rearing. A woman cannot go through that many pregnancies without risking postpartum mental health issues, especially if they end up being miscarriages. Arthur assisted in letting her mind and body decline, creating Angela’s resentment towards him. Clay has no fault in this. Arthur could have taken a break from trying for a baby, helped her get clean and recover in this meantime. But he refused to be an actually supportive and responsible husband.

Now I’m not trying to say Angela wasn’t also flawed, but I don’t think it's gone over anyone’s heads how unstable she was. What the fandom misses is how badly Arthur idealized her. How he pushed his son away so he can be the only one clinging to her. In fact, that’s what he literally does the moment she takes her last breath.

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

and if you have a hard time comprehending how absurdly big that number really is-

if elon musk acquired a time machine (🕯️ we will not manifest this 🕯️) and gave a single dollar of his wealth to every approximated human being who has ever existed on earth between the moment they could be classified as humans to this very second of reading this post

elon musk would still have approximately $688 billion to spare.

meaning if he divided up all his money equally with every single one of those humans who has ever existed, everyone would receive (valued at today's level of inflation) $5914.

each.

for every.

single.

human being.

who has ever existed.

since the dawn of recorded human history.

your mother. your grandmother. your great-great-great-great grandfather.

neil armstrong. beethoven. van gogh. shakespeare. leonardo da vinci. plato.

every member of every civilization whose history and legacies have become fairy tales. schools. hospitals. libraries. armies. households. elders. children.

and that is only counting his current net value - not the entirety of every dollar he's ever generated, spent, and hoarded, and not the entirety of every dollar he still plans to take for himself.

it should not only be legal, but mandatory, as a duty to all of mankind, to kill the rich.

PROPAGANDA:

[Leon]

"he needs an excuse to get a break from work and he would look so beautiful pregnant. 🫃🏼 bonus points if its a B.O.W baby."

"Give me that handsome man. Will take him as a young man or as a grey fox in the newest game . Give him an excuse to retire his knees hurt. He would have a lil girl and name her something cute."

"Everything I have ever learned about this man is from friends who like putting him in situations so I thought I’d do my part."

"Top 3 most breedable men in the franchise without a doubt. His emo phase during Vendetta needs to be studied bc I fear he was either in postpartum depression or on his cycle."

Leon propaganda from last season

[Dean]

"He killed Hitler, he deserves it."

"He's so breedable, and he'd love it so much."

"He’d be hotter and that's enough."

"THE OG OMEGA!"

"He’s called himself Sam's mother, he said he’s nesting, he’s great with kids. He is The Omega, out of all of his sex scenes he has never been on top, he gets disproportionately flustered when men flirt with him as opposed to women. He deserves to be pregnant and eat pie and relax for once damn it."

"Look at his face and you simply cannot deny that man needs to be pregnant. He’s The Omega tm."