Also I’ll say again like. I abhor when people don’t really think of the pink opaque as a straight story about them actually being people from tv. First of all. Why wouldn’t you want to? That’s the coolest story ever. When I first realized when watching that they were tv characters stuck in a realistic world it blew my mind- I never had seen a story that creative before. Especially since it’s an emotionally heavy and serious story (like Buffy).
Second, like, why is only this movie referred to as a metaphor only and not interacted within its own textural rules. Like so many movies have themes and messages for the real world, like obsession for example, but people still take the material story seriously, they actually think about the implications of the story in world, what happens after the credits roll, and the rules of the wish. Isttvg’s world was never largely taken seriously as a place with rules- why is that?
And third, not thinking of them as actually being from tv literally is hateful, it, for lack of a better world, misgenders them. The whole point is they are not what society says they are, no matter how unlikely it may seem, it’s definitely not only their truth but the truth, and then for a viewer to say this is a just a metaphor they’re not really from tv. It’s sad.
Like, even think about how the 90s actors cameos were treated. It was not treated as if these actors represented the fact that their universe was actually from tv and that’s why these tv characters we know from our childhood appear. It was always referred to as part od the movie being simply “a love letter to the tv shows we grew up with and how we remember them”. Yes, that can be part of the message of the movie, but No I think in-universe those actual tv characters were really stuck there in the nightmare realm too! Or possibly a memory of Owen’s impacting how she’s seeing people in the nightmare realm.
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