shawty

anyways one of my favourite things from the whole show is the “view from halfway down” poem. the reason i like it so much is that, as we know, the entire situation was all in bojacks mind and none of it was real. so therefore bojack completely made up everything said during all of those scenes, including the poem. there was no way for bojack to know what his childhood hero thought in his final moments alive, so he made it up. the poem stresses how secretariat jumped before completely thinking it through and then the second he jumped, all he longed for was his feet to be back on the ground.

i think that heavily reflects onto bojack and it makes so much sense that it’s all his imagination. bojack countless times has impulsively done things that ruin him, one thing even brought him insanely near death. he wants stability and he needed someone to tell him that he would regret it if he “jumped”, but no one did. so in his final attempt to save himself his subconscious was the one who told him that, his subconscious was the one who gave him that reassurance that he so longed for off everyone else. and as he mentioned the “dream” would usually happen and then cut off before he got to the show, and the one time it didn’t cut off and it played the whole way through, was the time he needed to hear that poem more than anything.

bojack horseman is the type of toxic that is so clearly addictive but the thing is, a toxic person almost always goes hand in hand with another toxic person. anyone who has full self respect and knows what they’re worth would easily walk away from someone like bojack. and i rlllyy like how the show displays how the other characters being super insecure in themselves makes them an entirely perfect match for someone like bojack.