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[glindaselphie]

i just started reading an obsession transcript and apparently nikki and sarah say i love you to each other just before nikki clocks the boys making faces at each other and now I want to cry

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers again but something I will always defend ian on is that he was the only one who called bear out for taking advantage of nikki. he should have intervened more on that basis but at the very least, bear had to hear his best friend calling him out on his shit.

[glindaselphie]

I actually see it as a combination of both things! I think ian and bear’s dynamic is a commentary on toxic masculinity and how men are really bad at directly calling out toxic behaviour in their “buddies” even when it’s right in front of their faces.

I do think he is saying it with a level of caring for nikki bc he genuinely thinks something is wrong with her, but he cannot directly call his friend out for the life of him so he says it in a way where he has plausible deniability if bear reacts badly. “I’m not saying you’re taking advantage of her, I’m just saying this is what other people could say.”

I also do think he kinda hoped bear wouldn’t show up to the party as well, he just couldn’t bring himself to outright ban him so directs it at nikki instead. Ian’s a better communicator than bear but I think the entire friendship group has communication issues and they end up being assholes to and about each other for this exact reason.

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers again but something I will always defend ian on is that he was the only one who called bear out for taking advantage of nikki. he should have intervened more on that basis but at the very least, bear had to hear his best friend calling him out on his shit.

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers //

people dog on the fact ian and nikki were hooking up and I do agree ian probably should have told bear that had been happening, but what ppl don’t realise w that is they are watching it from bear’s pov.

yeah ian is a bit of a douchebag and an idiot at times, but he clearly actually knew how to communicate with nikki, which was the primary problem in bear’s dynamic with her.

these two clearly had a conversation about their feelings and agreed they just wanted a casual thing and not a serious relationship. and clearly it was stuck to bc until nikki starts acting strange, ian doesn’t seem that bothered about her relationship with bear at all. I do think he was kinda sabotaging bear a bit at the start but that imho was just him being a dickhead rather than him being bothered by the idea of them ending up in a relationship.

I also do think ian didn’t feel the need to mention it bc a) it was casual, not a serious relationship and b) it was established to be on and off and it had been probably been off for a bit when the relationship with bear started to happen. he still could have said something but I can understand him thinking it doesn’t really matter if it’s not serious and there’s no overlap.

[glindaselphie]

hate that I made you love me by ariana grande is actually a great song for bear x nikki from real nikki’s pov.

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers //

I think what gets me most about pre-wish nikki is actually that she was really sweet with bear. she told him he could call her when sandy’s death fully hit him and was sad when she thought he wasn’t coming to trivia. she rolled her eyes at ian playfully with him. the hansel and gretel story suggests she viewed him like a brother. and it ends with her pushing his body away from her in disgust because of what he did to her when the whole time, they could have been best friends :((( he truly destroyed everything for both of them.

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers //

what gets me about bear trying to undo the wish is even when he gets the second willow and tries to undo it himself, he doesn’t say “I wish I didn’t make my previous wish” or something along those lines, he says “I wish nikki freeman only loved me as a friend.” even while trying to reverse it, he’s still taking away her agency, bc why in the fuck does she need to love you at all?

[gelybean]

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‘Obsession’ was amazing and Inde Navarrette’s was such a revelation! 😭💖 One of my favorite horror movies of recent years hands down!!

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers //

also my second watch proved to me even more that the “sex” scene was definitely meant to be seen as a rape and nikki being violated. the music is unsettling and loud and the focus is entirely on her pained face. it only then switches back to bear after it’s over.

[glindaselphie]

I watched obsession for a second time! here are my thoughts / what I picked up on better the second time around:

While I do think Ian was highkey trying to corrupt Bear’s chance with Nikki at the start, he didn’t actually tell him to directly call her Freaky Nikki. He just said to mention it. Still an asshole move but Bear is even more of a dumb asshole for directly calling her it when he told Ian himself that Nikki hates that name.

There are more shots that pause on just Nikki’s body with no head or face in them than I remembered and I do think it’s a really clever way of showing the way Bear is viewing her.

When Bear talks to Wish Nikki after the party, he doesn’t once say he wants the real Nikki back. He says he wants Wish Nikki to behave like her. “Real Nikki would never say that, I want you to act like Nikki.” This adds even more to the fact he didn’t want to break the wish because he was enjoying her love too much, he just wanted to be able to forget what he was doing to Nikki and for her behaviour to stop impacting his life and becoming noticeable to his friends too.

[glindaselphie]

I wish we could have heard nikki speak spanish

[glindaselphie]

The Ready Or Not sequels made me wonder about whether the deals with Mr. Le Bail are not as cut and dry as they seem. If he hadn’t died before dawn, would Daniel have blown up since he intentionally betrayed his family to save the sacrifice? Mr. Le Bail seems like he has a sense of humour and respects Grace as a competitor, and what Daniel did was like renouncing his pact, unlike Madhu in RoN 2 unseating himself as the head of the family out of opportunism and cowardice to make his wife hunt in his place. I wonder if there’s an unwritten conscientious objector clause where if they actually turn against their family and switch to the sacrifice’s side and they mean it, they don’t blow up if the family fails, but maybe they do blow up if the sacrifice dies. Grace got to walk away after marrying into two families because she opposed them and renounced her bond. The eradication clause could be about punishing Le Bail’s worshippers that are failures, it doesn’t matter which side they fight for if they lose the game they die, but if they willingly renounce their bond and the power that comes with it and turn against their families and still emerge victorious, maybe he lets them go?

Sorry this took a while to respond to! I think tumblr has been eating asks and not notifying me of others unfortunately.

But yes I agree tbqh. It is interesting that from what I remember, Martina does not explode when she leaves the game. And I think you might be right in that it’s because she was essentially siding with Grace while doing that so she’d only be hurt if Grace failed.

And I do wonder if Alex from the first would have been okay if he hadn’t betrayed Grace the way he did. He did try and protect her and warned her what was happening but he winded up being a selfish piece of shit bc he realised she probably wouldn’t wanna be with him anymore if she won and they got out of this. That probably did in fact cost him his life and perhaps if he’d stayed on her side, he would have been let go. I think Daniel probably would have been too, if he’d escaped his family and made it to the end :(

[glindaselphie]

I have to disagree with Sarah being a pick me. Think about it …. She told her best friend (Nikki) that she liked bear and now has to see Nikki suddenly going out with bear after bears wish which obviously she didn’t know about.. so obviously she’s going to be a bit hurt. But I do admit they were all bad friends, even if they suspected something was up, the party scene should’ve confirmed it and they should’ve checked up on her

Yeah she was valid in her feelings there but it was more so her realising something was really wrong with Nikki and not really doing anything to check up on her, like you said. But yeah, they’re all bad friends, not just Sarah. Ian pissed me off more and he’s the only death I do not blame Bear for tbh bc it was purely his own stupidity that got him there.

Bear says “don’t come to my house” and you go there anyway? After not checking in on Nikki all this time? Just to brag that the billion dollars you wished for is in fact a billion dollars? Fuck off, bro 😭

[glindaselphie]

obsession spoilers //

saw this being talked about on twitter but wish nikki is pretty infantile at times.

the way she cries is like a small child having a tantrum.

her pout at the party? quite childlike.

the way bear sneaks out of the bed like a parent not wanting to wake the toddler they just managed to get to sleep.

I wonder if it’s an intentional commentary on the “some men don’t want an adult woman with her own autonomy, they want a child” idea.

her waiting for him to come home in the same spot all day is more like a pet than a child really but probably is part of that same commentary.

[gothgleek]

I was definitely seeing the ‘Born Sexy Yesterday’ trope with Wish!Nikki.

Correct me if I’m wrong but does Wish!Nikki ever reference Bear’s interests pre-wish? Her knowledge of him seems to extend maybe half an hour before the wish was granted and everything afterwards (so cat and food critic, and maybe movies since the tv always seems to be on). Wish!Nikki seems to cling onto anything that would make her love him (and him her) because she literally does not exist without him. She can’t even take care of herself without him being around.

[glindaselphie]

yeah she barely knows anything about him at all. I wonder if part of the reason she made the sandwich out of the cat specifically is that she didn’t know much about the kind of foods he actually liked, so she figured “hey he loved the cat so maybe he’d like a cat sandwich.” when she was around him, she did seem to stare at him more than she took things in at times and it does go to show how little personality bear actually has outside of her by that point as well.

[glindaselphie]

for me the moment nikki broke through the first time is that moment she went back to the car and started acting weird, theres a small moment where I think real Nikki realizes what's she's saying and going "what the fuck is going on?" and than right away she gets sucked back under the spell of the wish.

I think the one the really made cry though was when she "broke out" during and after the rape scene. The way she looked so blank and numb when it happened, and than afterwards when she told bear to stay their while she stood in the corner. I get the vibe that she was so traumatized after what happened that she used all her strength to at least get away as much she can from bear. I also got the vibe that she really wanted to kill bear with the vase of flowers for one second.

I’m rewatching it on Monday so I’m gonna pay close attention for any the details I might have missed the first time around, but I heard apparently just before she charges him at one stage, you hear wish nikki say “real nikki hates your fucking guts” or something like that. Apparently it’s during the scene where she glitches out and walks backwards, so I’ll have to listen out for that :(

[glindaselphie]

Also bear knew right away something was wrong with Nikki and that it might have been his wish. But untill Nikki started acting out right "crazy" and Ian told him to his face with his evidence, he was looking for any logical excuse he could come up with so that he can have her. Even when he thought it was drugs, he was genuinely taking advantage of her. He put the blame on her for not "telling him". And his immediate denial of that, kind of foreshadows his actions throughout the whole movie. That he doesn't genuinely care about Nikki as a person or loves her. He only cares about his feelings and what he wants and how he looks. He's the victim, he's scared, his feelings. Him him him.

Yeah something I haven’t seen talked about much is that he was kinda taking advantage of her even before it became very obvious the wish had worked.

Like even if she was just on drugs or her dad was genuinely dying of cancer and she was struggling with it, any decent person would have been like “hey nikki, we need to slow down, you’re clearly not in the best head space right now. I can still be here for you as a friend and won’t leave you, but I don’t want us to jump into anything you’ll regret.”

Instead he starts to fully take advantage someone he believes is struggling with the fact her father’s dying of cancer. Even if he didn’t know the wish had worked, that’s still pretty messed up and not a good foundation for a relationship at all.