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I'll update gradually as I go but just wanted to create a comprehensive short cut to my metas and posts starting with my most recent deep dive.

If you haven't read these ones you should, by the way. It was very fun to write and you might like it :)

* The Bear is a dirty movie: Part 1

* The Bear is a dirty movie: Part 2

#the bear #sydcarmy #carmy berzatto #sydney adamu #the bear meta #carmy x sydney #sydney x carmy #the bear fx #the bear hulu #syd x carmy

Do I even have time anymore to write the metas I want to? Time just went by 🥲

#sydcarmy #the bear

These TikTok edits I'm crying 😂😂

#hudson williams #hudville #canadian screen awards

I'm very normal about this. I've never been so normal about this.

#it's not even sarcasm #sydcarmy #the bear

My baby won!!! 😭🥹🥺

#hudson williams #shane hollander #best lead performer #canadian screen awards #heated rivalry

fairestbeard

‎I hate this f*cking show so much...

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‎Because why did I just have another lightbulb moment seeing a teaser from season 2 that I had never seen before?

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‎Remember when I talked about Carmy and the hole in the wall (in my dirty movie series) and how I pointed out that it looked like he was saying "do me a favor keep thinking about her?" with the articulation of his lips?

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‎Tell me why the teaser actually shows Syd on the other side of that hole in the wall. She's the only one that was filmed that way. She's the other side of what Carmy is looking at enraptured. OMG, the symbolism!!

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‎Let me recap this as my stream of consciousness would allow.

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‎Sydney "fell through the wall" as it was described in the episode. Carmy then displays an interesting amount of interest in that hole, gazing longingly through it, asking Nat or us (remember this was filmed as a breaking the fourth wall) to do him a favor and keep thinking about it(her).

In the teaser, Syd is shown from the other perspective, on the other side of the wall which she fell through (she's also holding a hammer so maybe she broke through?) and she's wearing her Sundae outfit, which is what she wore for the "work date" that never happened.

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‎Is anybody seeing what I'm seeing? Of course, with Storer it could mean nothing but surely you see the symbolism here, no?

fairestbeard

@otherworldlyfatevoyage I'll in fact keep going.

You know how the "real world" and the "fictional world" are two different universes? When a character breaks the forth wall we can assume they are basically accessing a portal between both worlds, so accessing an alternate reality.

At the risk of sounding really loony, hear me out:

Carmy is accessing a portal when he looks into that hole. Into an alternate reality. One, it's us the viewers who are looking at and observing him and them. Like i said in my dirty movie meta, the audience's role is voyeuristic by nature, which is why breaking the forth wall is always very jarring. The characters are not supposed to know we are there.

Fleabag and the priest break the fourth wall

The character breaking the fourth wall is an attempt to quantum leap and establish a direct connection with the outside world.

In the case of Carmy, he's accessing two universes in that instant. Our world and this alternate reality where Syd is more than just his sous chef. He wants another life with her that exists outside the restaurant. That's why he looks through the hole to break the fourth wall as opposed to just directly breaking the fourth wall like Richie and Tiff did in season 3.

Picture by @whenmemorydies

It's not just the two universes as stand alones. It's a universe within a universe; the one they are planting inside our minds. They laid those seeds on purpose. Carmy makes a plea to us to keep thinking about it (her) because only to those who are really looking and really thinking about it (her) would that story eventually make sense. Jeremy talked about how there's a different story that the audience is telling or creating that is outside the story they know is being told so far, but I think that is deliberate. They know exactly why we weave that story because they put it there.

We have to pay attention to the way language is used in this show:

Sydney fell through a wall would indicate that she fell through to the other side but she doesn't really fall through the wall. It's a symbol for that version of her that Carmy desires to gain access to that fell through the wall and is on the other side, also trying to break through to him(just like us).

I don't even know if I'm making sense at this point. I wish I could have made this reblog as a stand alone post.

#sydcarmy #the bear #carmy berzatto #sydney adamu #the bear meta

‎I hate this f*cking show so much...(affectionate)

‎

‎Because why did I just have another lightbulb moment seeing a teaser from season 2 that I had never seen before?

‎

‎Remember when I talked about Carmy and the hole in the wall (in my dirty movie series) and how I pointed out that it looked like he was saying "do me a favor keep thinking about her?" with the articulation of his lips?

‎

‎Tell me why the teaser actually shows Syd on the other side of that hole in the wall. She's the only one that was filmed that way. She's the other side of what Carmy is looking at enraptured. OMG, the symbolism!!

‎

‎Let me recap this as my stream of consciousness would allow.

‎

‎Sydney "fell through the wall" as it was described in the episode. Carmy then displays an interesting amount of interest in that hole, gazing longingly through it, asking Nat or us (remember this was filmed as a breaking the fourth wall) to do him a favor and keep thinking about it(her).

In the teaser, Syd is shown from the other perspective, on the other side of the wall which she fell through (she's also holding a hammer so maybe she broke through?) and she's wearing her Sundae outfit, which is what she wore for the "work date" that never happened.

‎

‎Is anybody seeing what I'm seeing? Of course, with Storer it could mean nothing but surely you see the symbolism here, no?

#on my delusional shit again #lord help me #the bear #sydcarmy #carmy berzatto #sydney adamu #the bear meta #the bear hulu #sydney x carmy

bioloyg

hey remember when they wrote Natalie going into labor and the first person she called was Sydney. And when Sydney didn’t pick up she tries to call “The Bear” and it tries to call Claire, which isn’t what she wanted, and then Carmen turns around and calls Sydney The Bear?

good times

bioloyg

it’s just the way every part of Carmen’s family tried to fold Claire in as a Bear, his underlying resistance to that, and the conscious choices he makes for himself that always seem to come back to Sydney.

She is the only person he ever hired. Past Sydney, hiring got farmed out to Nat (and later Richie). To the point he and Sydney don’t even know who the three randos are that quit on opening night.

And then in fucking vow renewal/marriage style he goes, “here is a contract tying you to my hopes and dreams as the (partial) owner of them, and because you are a part of that dream I do need you to sign the papers, also here is my family name.”

Christopher I’m tired, man. I’ve been tired for four seasons. Can you not kill me on the fifth and final

fairestbeard

I just want to correct that she actually was trying to call Claire but it kept calling "The Bear" instead. Which to me has a heavier implication but with Storer it could always mean nothing 🤷

fairestbeard

Does anyone have any theories about why they kept interjecting that singular scene of a burned field/lot between the plot beats in Gary?

aphony-cree

I grew up in Northwest Indiana. Even though the area is mostly urban/suburban it still has farmland, fields, and forests that you pass through on the way to and from Chicago. Controlled burns are a farming/woodland technique that's sometimes done in the spring or fall to encourage regrowth

whenmemorydies

Such a good point @aphony-cree! Controlled burns are used down here in Aus for the same reason. In fact there are some plants here that will only germinate and grow because of fire. I wonder if the use of this shot is meant to represent that burning away of Richie and Mikey’s relationship (as soured as it had become) before Richie’s later rebirth/regrowth during the events of S2?

fairestbeard

Wow, thanks you everyone for your insights. I love all the theories so far. Right now I'm just thinking about the idea of "holes" that kept coming up as a motif in the bear story. There's holes spread across the story, just like Richie's memory and I wonder what's hidden there. Would those holes even be properly explored with just one 8 EP season to go?

Anyway, you guys are the best. 🫶🏾

#the bear #the bear meta #the bear fx #richie jerimovich #mikey berzatto #gary episode

Does anyone have any theories about why they kept interjecting that singular scene of a burned field/lot between the plot beats in Gary?

#the bear #sydcarmy #the bear meta #the bear fx