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I feel like my moratorium on hateposts on this blog has a justified exception if I got vagued first, right? right? say yes. good. so one of the types of selective editing that scott does with relative frequency is to cut out specifically the moment where someone says no to him. now, there are many potential explanations for this! maybe his memory is imperfect and he just happened to forget when someone said no. maybe he didn’t think they meant it when they said no. or maybe he’s got a documented history of being a bit weird about consent; who’s to say. certainly not me! how convenient, that he forgot specifically the few seconds where he was told no. how interesting. would scott smajor actively try to change a narrative that isn’t currently in his favour? surely not. pearl really is his crazy ex girlfriend and jimmy really is the one still obsessed with flower husbands. but that’s not even (mostly) editing; that’s just lying. he’s a liar! he lies so easily and so frequently, and so well, that most people can’t pick up on it. and he’s slippery, he’s hard to pin down, he’s difficult to catch. he loves to be chased but hates to be caught. his façade is very cleverly constructed so that most people don’t notice how he manipulates them. I mean, case in point!
re: selective editing. any thoughts on lizzie?
yes!! I’ve talked about lizzie’s editing choices a handful of times before, especially how she’ll often lie via subtitles (whether that’s misattributing lines or misrepresenting what was actually said*) or redub scenes to smooth out her own dialogue. everyone in the life series manipulates their audience, it comes free with having multiple perspectives of the same events, but lizzie’s such an underrated manipulator despite being one of the most egregious of the lot. my favourite example of this, and also one of the coolest instances of editing as memory, is from wild life (13:07 in lizzie’s ep 4; 35:45 in jimmy’s ep 4):
^she’s remembering herself as being not only more articulate (“take this stew and go do the cobweb creeper trick” vs “take this stew, and then tr—you know, do the… do the thing”) but also more supportive of jimmy (“jimmy, I’m so proud of you!” vs not saying that at all). this sort of narrative manipulation is sooo fun. does lizzie remember telling jimmy she’s proud of him because she was thinking it so she just assumed she’d said it? is there a reason she doesn’t remember jimmy thanking her for giving him the suspicious stew? of course she’d remember herself explaining the cobweb creeper trick instead of just stumbling over her words. editing choices are so interesting as facets of characterisation, and lizzie does this sort of stuff all the time. she’s fun!
jimmy actually does a lot of stealth editing in double life, it’s kinda awesome, especially since much of what he cuts is scott trying to make him jealous or vice versa. three of my favourite examples: he edited out a scene in ep 1 where he was talking about how he was having a great time with his soulmate and scott said he didn’t care (scott only cut the line about not caring that jimmy was having a great time lmao); he edited out a scene in ep 3 where he was talking to scott about tango having anger issues (scott kept this in. wonder why); he edited out at least one instance in ep 4 of him telling scott and cleo that they weren’t ‘real’ soulmates (scott again kept this in). I usually focus on scott’s editing of his double life pov when it comes to unreliable narration, because he really is the worst offender here, but jimmy’s more manipulative (or more of a liar?) than people tend to think
one of my fave underappreciated jimmy moments is from wild life ep 5 when grian comes over to specifically ask if jimmy remembers the band name “gem & the scotts” and jimmy very deliberately says “no” in a tone that they both know means he’s lying to grian’s face. and then grian indicates his red name and says “that colour suits you, jim” and jimmy says “no… shut up, shut up!” and walks away from him. and it’s an underappreciated moment because both grian and jimmy cut this scene out of their respective videos and you can only see it from lizzie’s perspective
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around ten minutes into jimmy’s final third life episode, when he’s escorting grian and scar back to the desert (with pizza 2), grian tells jimmy, “we need scott if we’re gonna bring them in on the plan … meet us at the bunker. get scott and meet us at the bunker” and jimmy says, “yeah, yeah I’ll go back and get scott and I’ll meet you there.” then there’s a hard cut and scott’s there at the entrance to the desert and jimmy’s tellling him, “I just waited on the edge [of the desert] for you, because, um, they wanted both of us to come at the same time to the bunker, so.”
what you don’t see from jimmy’s perspective is the scene (around eleven minutes into scott’s penultimate third life episode) where jimmy goes back home and tries to tell scott about what grian said, and scott tells him to go away because he’s busy talking to cleo, and threatens to shoot him—first with his bow and then, when he realises he’s out of arrows, with his crossbow.
omg i will!! :] i’ve been stirring on some things (i’ve only done their ep3 conversation and the ep4 bite scene so far, the ep6 divorce and both scenes from ep8 are On My List) so maybe i’ll post them properly eventually but already. caught owen in 4k editing out multiple instances of legs offering him understanding and reassurance that he’s not going to hurt him :) im actually. SO fucking upset
HELLO? THAT’S WILD. ngl I was not paying attention At All to anything going on between owen and legundo but clearly I need to remedy that because this kind of thing is extremely up my alley. especially the minuscule line edits... cutting out “but I’m not a monster, legs” / “I never called you one” and then “let me help you”… 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨 truly I admire owen’s dedication to making his character Worse
Honestly nothing was more fun for me than watching Jimmy’s 3L years after watching Scott’s and going OH this is toxic yaoi actually, yippee! Scott editing around Jimmy saying no to him is a genius character choice, and it adds such a depth of character when you watch from Jimmy’s side. I can imagine someone maining Scott’s POV missing those nuances like I did, the things he doesn’t show are as (if not more) important to his character as the things he does
one of my favourite examples of scott’s selective editing from third life is this insane shit he decided to do for some reason (ep 4):
^never let anyone tell you scott isn’t manipulative btw he does this shit ALL the time. minuscule changes to sentences or lines of dialogue that change the entire meaning. he edits his own dialogue to remove filler sounds or every time he trips over his words so that he sounds more articulate.* cutting out entire scenes is one thing—some of my favourites are obviously “whittle him down to nothing,” “the jimmy curse,” and “I’ll kill myself twice just so I can get to murder jimmy” (all very normal things to say about your ex[?] husband)—but it’s the tiny line edits that really get me. my favourite control freak 💜 you can keep editing out the moments jimmy tells you no or stop forever but he’s gonna keep saying it!
