Dark Synchronicities Between My Ex and Walker's The Jackal
Oh boy, this one is a bit of a dousy synchronicities wise, very dark. It was a couple of months ago when the 4th and final season of Walker aired on April 3, 2024. This season for those of you who don't know, this season's villain is a serial killer affectionately known as The Jackal who has been revealed to target bad parents or caretakers. One of his signature moves is to inject his targets with digoxin to keep them paralyzed, and then eventually bury them alive along with a jackal's tooth. In the latest episode of Walker that aired June 12, 2024, Cordell was having a "dream" while he was being "taken cared of" by The Jackal before he was buried alive (and thankfully found by the other Texas rangers).
The premiere episode "The Quiet" featured the steak eating contest that was held at the Walkers' home when they were unable to make the road trip to another steak eating contest. I found this interview with one of the questions and answers being as below:
Damian: Understandable, since it’s his kid! I will say, at the beginning of the season, this is probably the happiest we’ve seen Cordi. He’s eating a massive amount of steak. He’s in love again. He has put the ghost of his late wife to rest. The kids are growing up, he’s kind of reclaiming his own life again. Can he have this all, can he be happy?
Jared: Oh, Damian, you know TV better than that! Hell no. [Laughs] He can have a lot sometimes and some a lot of times, but one of the things that [showrunner] Anna Fricke and I talked about from the get-go was trying to make sure that this version of Walker was more similar to life than just a TV version of a [person]. We never sought out to go like, “Well, it’s the end of episode, I roundhouse kicked somebody and now everything’s okay. Let’s all high-five!” This is more like, “Well, what did I miss while trying to get the bad guy? Oh, I missed my daughter’s graduation. Oh, I missed her birthday. I missed this. Oh, I didn’t call back my live-in partner that I was supposed to.” And so there’s no pure win and there is no pure loss. So I think with Walker, though happy now, his life happens in seasons and not like TV seasons. Walker’s had some hard times and now is an easy time, but life is difficult, and Walker finds that out.
9 days after Walker season 4 first aired back in April, an old boyfriend of mine reached back out to me... a few years after the last message I sent him on May 7, 2021. I had reached out to him because I wanted to "make peace" if you will about how things ended with us dating over 12 years ago before I moved out of state. He did cheat on me about 3 days before I moved while I was asleep in his room and took the girl downstairs. Just couldn't wait a few more days, eh? Anyways, I found it strange that I was thinking about him a few times the week after Walker premiered and a couple days later my came around to messaging me out of the blue. Weirdly enough, he was thirsting over me and did basically compare me to steak and other girls he's had to McDonald's. He even mentioned how road trips do exist.
I proceeded with caution in talking to my ex because his former best friend who is still my friend (long story there) told me a few years ago about the things he did to the girl he dated after me. The biggest crime I can think of upfront being he essentially made her become a prostitute so he could get drug money. When I went to his former best friend's wedding a few years ago, I learned my ex boyfriend's now ex fiancée is so terrified of him she got a restraining order. She straight up refused to go to my friend's wedding, thinking he would show up there, which did sadden my friend. I did at one point try to warn this girl over 12 years ago before she started dating my ex about his cheating on me.
Since she wasn't really willing to heed my warning about the cheating tidbit, I never got around to telling her about how every time him and his dad get into arguments, he talks afterward about killing his dad. He also frequently mentioned plans of going on multiple killing sprees, even promising me he'd never hurt me or my family but did promise to go after my high school boyfriend who violated me in a hotel room bathroom. I also noticed that I would fall asleep an awful lot at his house and I seem to remember always having a beverage of some kind before doing so. If you know me, I struggle with falling asleep generally and always have. So knowing I fell asleep there very frequently is noteworthy to say the least. I remember always waking up feeling very groggy; one of the times I woke up my pants were down and felt my ex's member about to enter me until I woke up and said "What are you doing?" and then he stopped.
House of Wax (watching at night), Road Trip, Ketchup and French Fries, Tooth Fairy Movie (watched this morning)
Funnily enough, I was watching the older 1953 House of Wax movie while I was writing this post initially. Roku and its mislabeling movie versions at times. I selected it thinking it was the 2005 version not the 1953 one. However, I was writing this post so I was not entirely paying attention to the movie. I started watching the CORRECT version around 8:30pm or so (namely the one I care about more with Jared in it ha ha) and noticed Paris Hilton's character eating ketchup and fries (you'll see why I say this in the next paragraph). I couldn't help but notice the child being restrained in the beginning of the movie and the mother yelling at him to keep calm and the dad saying "he's really being a monster again today" and after the boy is moving around screaming which ends up with the wax mask falling to the ground and breaking. Eventually, the mother slaps the distressed child strapped to the high chair who yelled at him to "be quiet". Bad parenting much and the child turns out to become a serial killer, just like The Jackal in season 4 of Walker? Also couldn't help but notice the road trip discussion Jared's character Wade has with his girlfriend Carly. Oh and how funny, one of the characters from "Friday the 13th" (2009) in the first group was named Wade. Hmm....
This morning, I also was nudged to randomly watched the movie "Tooth Fairy" (2010) with Dwayne Johnson "The Rock" in it. The main character's girlfriend's daughter is named Carly; his girlfriend also says "oh, a little ketchup" while wiping the side of his mouth and proceeds to kiss The Rock's character Derek Thompson who is known as the "Tooth Fairy" because of knocking out one opponents' teeth in a game years ago in the movie.
I did write in a post not too long ago about how things are "coming in full circle" and said this kind of phrase multiple times. Perhaps it's true on a broader scale than I realized...