#word attack!

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USA 1987

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LONG rant about ETF’s handle of Dib and his dad’s relationship

Soooooo, am I one of the few people that despite enjoying the development in ETF between these two at first, it later felt like it was a bit forced??? someone brought this up at some point in a livestream talking about opinions, and I kind of agree. He thought he was in a dream the entire time, what if he never really meant it? The more times I watch the movie or listen to opinions that criticize the movie’s faults, the more I realized how heartless that statement he said might actually be.... like THINK ABOUT IT!

It’s awful to think that he either said what he said because he loved his son and really cared but didn’t know how to express it so he thinks his dreams are the safest place to let out his true feelings (which is sweet but sad) ..... or he only said it because the plot required it and he never actually meant it because it he thought it was a dream and he just wanted to say it to make his “imaginary son” feel better despite NEVER showing us that he feels that way in the comics and show. (which is messed up and even more sad)

And SO WHAT if Dib got recognition from his dad for a bit, that he was acknowledged for a moment, that his dad was proud of him and “had his back” during the movie? Throughout most of it; he was gone and when he was on screen, he just continues to deny what his son has been proving to him for years even after all the crap that happened in the movie. I know that his close-minded attitude has always been a core trait about him, and the show loves to frustrate the hell out of Dib with it........................... (Warning: I get really agressive at this part, but I go into detail about how toxic they’re relationship actually is and why for the longest time iz fanfics have Dib move out early or run away)

BUT HOW DO YOU IGNORE SOMETHING FOR SO LONG, CONTINUE TO BELITTLE YOUR SON’S INTEREST AND NOT ONLY DO A CHICKEN LITTLE AND SIDE WITH EVERYONE ELSE BECAUSE “SCIENCE!” AND MAKE YOUR SON FEEL EVEN MORE ISOLATED FROM EVERYONE THAN HE ALREADY IS TO THE POINT OF IT HURTING HIM EMOTIONALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY! YOU’VE DISOWNED YOUR SON ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, EXPERIMENTED ON YOUR CHILDREN FOR SCIENCE, FORGOTTEN ABOUT HIM, MERCILESSLY RIDICULE HIM, SEND HIM TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL DESPITE ALL THE PROOF HE HAS BEEN SHOWING, “It’S a GoOd FaKe SpAcE sHiP” HOW CAN YOU PROVE IT’S FAKE, BY LOOKING AT IT!? YOU’VE NEVER EVEN BEEN TO OUTER SPACE SEEN WHAT’S BEYOND IT IF YOU’RE SO SMART AND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING WHY DON’T YOU BUILD YOUR OWN SPACE SHIP while awake of course AND FLY IT STRAIGHT INTO THAT FLORPUS YOU AND YOUR SON JUST SAVED MILLIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE FROM DYING INSIDE OF and maybe while your heading in there, TRY LOOKING FOR SOME OTHER PLANETS AND SIGNS OF ALIEN LIFE! ALIENS ARE THE MOST REASONABLE AND REALIST MYSTERY OUT THERE! IF THERE IS ONE PLANET CAPABLE OF LIFE LIKE OURS IS THEN THERE MUST BE MORE OF THEM A SCHMILLION LIGHTYEARS AWAY IN THE UNEXPLORED AND ENDLESS REACHES OF SPACE SOMEWHERE!!!! YOU CAN’T SAY THERE ISN’T A POSSIBILITY! YOUR PROUD OF HIM!? SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU’VE EVER BEEN PROUD OF HIM! YOU WEREN’T PROUD OF HIM ALL THOSE TIMES HE DISAPPOINTED YOU, AND WHEN HE DECIDES TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE FOLLOWING HIS DREAM ARE YOU GOING TO STOP BEING PROUD!?!?!?!?!?!? 

Sighhhh I know all that is dumb and I like Prof. Membrane despite all that stuff I said, but overall I just think... That scene was fine, but if done with more evidence that Membrane actually meant what he said when he told Dib, “I’ve always been proud” then it would have been an even better scene.

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