so i figured i'd make a little list of what i think could be ivor meta moments, because in case you couldn't tell, i fucking love it when a character gets meta.
ok first off, this line from "a block and a hard place"!
"glitch wall" is...odd phrasing for that, i think. when we use the word glitch, we're generally referring to a computer or an app. or we may be referring to a "glitch in the matrix", a term used when referring to the idea that this may all just be a simulation.
next up!
not much to say about this one, just your average wink at the viewer moment!
moving onto season 2, we have this conversation from episode 5 where ivor is supposedly using an invisibility potion!
he mentions that they're "highly effective! and, apparently long-lasting." and if you choose "you had invisibility potions?" he insists that he just used his last one. personally i think he didn't actually have potions. this was a moment of plot convenience and ivor knew it, the potions were a cover story. he also sounds like he panics a little when you actually ask about the invisibility potions, so y'know.
this last one is in ivor's final scene, and realising that hurt my little hlvrai fan heart
"this has been fun though, hasn't it?"
this is another moment of odd phrasing, if you assume that ivor's speaking to jesse. nothing about the admin situation will have been fun for anyone involved. ivor says himself when you meet him in episode 4 that it's "getting dire up there", so he knows that it wasn't fun.
so, maybe he wasn't talking to jesse. maybe he was talking to us. asking if we enjoyed the game. there's no option for jesse to answer his question because the question isn't for jesse to answer.
i like to think that he was partially speaking to us throughout that whole scene. letting us know what he was doing next and what he knew about the rest of the old order so we didn't worry that they all just. died or something. it's a nice thought.
i don't know how or when ivor found out about us or about the game, but he sure does say enough weird things for me to wonder if it was more than just a joke.
