Elusive Mongoose

To the Wolf, god gave ripping teeth, and the Law of the Pack.

To the Bear, god gave crushing jaws, and terrible strength

To the Falcon, god gave slicing talons, and great sight

You have a big work project?

That passage leads into this one:

Yup.

but like

everyone knows (even scott (as much as scott's clueless ass can know anything)) that this is just a fake relationship scott isn't actually invested in, just something he's going through because of his whole arrested development thing

he never really shows any actual interest in knives at all, is actively disgusted by even the thought of intimacy with her

he ditches her for ramona without a thought the first chance he gets lmao

like yeah it is incredibly shitty and gross all around, thank you for noticing, that's what the story wants you to notice because it's part of scott's character arc of "growing up" and "becoming less of a failure of a human being"

this isn't a story about how dating highschoolers is cool and everyone should do it, and the reading that scott is a pedophile and the story condones his actions is just straight up not supported by the text,

also to add to this… it's pretty evident that scott does not see knives as a real relationship, because to him knives is not really… a person. she's a way for him to recapture the past, high school dating out of high school. the reason why he struggles to break up with her is because he has to acknowledge her as a full human being with thoughts and feelings of her own to do that.

Apparently Subspace Highways are a thing? And they go through people's heads? And Ramona treats this like it's obscure, but not secret knowledge. Ramona doesn't think she's doing anything weird here. At this point, it's not clear if Scott is accepting Ramona's explanation or not, things kind of move on as mundane as ever until their Date, when Ramona takes Scott through subspace, and he doesn't act like his world was just blown open or anything, although I guess that could have been a metaphor. there's a couple other moments, but everything with Ramona could be a metaphor, or Scott not recognizing what's going on. Maybe Ramona is uniquely fantastical in this otherwise normal world. And then, this happens

Suddenly, a fantastical element (A shitty local indie band finishing their set with a song that knocks out most of the audience) is introduced unrelated to Ramona, and undeniably literal. We see the crowd knocked out by Crash and The Boys. but the story doesn't linger on the implications of that, the whole point of that sequence is to raise the Nonsense Level, such that you accept it when This happens

They didn't just cut out the parts with the oat milk, they skillfully edited over all the god-damn branding and replaced the audio.

But what I still find most hilarious about this whole commercial is the fact that everything they show in this solar punk world seems to be made with sustainable, zero waste and reusable materials.

Everything EXCEPT THE FUCKING CHOBANI BRANDED STUFF! The only plastic you see in this whole commercial is all the straight to the landfill packaging made by the very corporation that tries to sell how sustainable and "green" they are. Unintentional self satire at its finest.

They couldn't even show their yogurt and milk in (basically infinitely reusable) glass containers because they pretty much only sell their shit in plastic