I Am Not There, I Do Not Vibe

started a relisten of TAZ Balance with @evilgirlmechanicock and something really funny is that justin really struggles to quite find taako's voice until the scene where he charms the bugbear and finally settles into smarmy foppish dandy cranked to 11. it's a voice so directly ripped out of old queer coded movie villains that it really is almost genuinely homophobic, if not for the fact that justin is simply the last survivor of a doomed planet of old hollywood open secret bisexuals who crash landed as a baby on the homestead of ma and pa mcelroy and got raised on earth as a heterosexual west virginian parrothead

matt johnson’s obsession with homosexuality is what makes him trade do NOT get it twisted

subtextjob from a girl with huge implications

It intrigues me how the characters are cartoonish exaggerations of themselves up until they hit soft tissue, then they just flip the script. Matt is the clingy one trying to hitch himself to Jay’s star power. Jay has mommy issues. Matt’s biggest anxiety is being left behind by Jay. Jay’s biggest anxiety is being judged and misunderstood and perceived as uncool. Okay sure.