#obsession baron

SPOILERS FOR OBSESSION!! Okay so here's the thing that hits with the 'What so bad about being with me?' Line. Baron is aware he is talking to Nikki and he's actively playing dumb in front of her, yes, we know this, that's already a shitty thing to do.

I want to point out a few things - Bear understands that Nikki has never been with him, at this point he's just upset that she still doesn't like him. A choice I think played into that is that what Bear said is 'What would be so bad....' THEN 'What's so bad about being with me?' - yes, this could just have been Michael messing up the line, however the choice stayed in the final cut and became cannon so I'm over-analyzing what it means. I also think that the line 'You are you.' isn't just willful ignorance alone, I think it's also partially Bear convincing himself the real Nikki likes him, that her and the wish Nikki are one being not separate. It hurts less to believe that all of wish Nikki's feelings were authentic. Starting with past tense changes things, he's asking her what would be / would have been so bad about being with him. The way I understood this was him quite literally asking 'Why wouldn't you want to be with me? Why wasn't I enough?'. Being the first time he gets to have a proper conversation with Nikki since the night of the wish, mind you, he's angry at her for not choosing him. This is the first scene in which we see him properly frown. In my opinion, he looks pissed off. Now, the second half, he catches himself and changes his speech to present tense. He voids the idea that Nikki never wanted him because that would be admitting 'it's not real' - he phrases it in a way that makes it seem like he doesn't understand why she's unhappy in their current relationship. Online, I see this is how it was widely interpreted. However, I think this is Bear asking real Nikki why she didn't just choose him 'beforehand'. When he asks what's so wrong with being with him NOW, he is wondering why she still can't see him romantically even after they spent all this time in a relationship, even if she's just watching it all happen in her own body. She confirms she's never had an emotional attachment to him, and he walks away. Analyzing his body language in the scene, he's frowning, looks kind of angry, and then turns away. THIS is what pisses me off when he walks away. It's not just that he's being ignorant or simple. He's punishing her because of his own selfish anger towards her. This is why it makes sense for him to go on and have that moment with Sarah, he craves something real (even if he does not deserve it).

Some lines I want to reference are: 'Do you even like me at all' - 'No, No, is Nikki happy? Does Nikki like me?' - 'I thought you'd be Nikki!' - He tries to ask about the real Nikki directly. When he realizes that wish Nikki isn't who he thought she was he gets upset and admits he thought it would've been Nikki herself, as a real person. In my opinion this changes the subtext of the scene where we finally see him get through to real Nikki for the first time, because that is exactly what he wants to know: 'Do you even like me at all? Does Nikki like me?' and when he's met with confirmation she has never once seen him as a partner, he leaves. And I guess it's kinda obvious with the fact he only wants to cancel the wish after finding out her feelings likely aren't 'real'. It upsets me that his reaction to this revelation is being pissed at Nikki.