Don’t know why I didn’t say this back in February. But anyway. Thinking about this episode as a sister to JSNtF, is it worth mentioning that in 92 Eerie, Marilyn and Edgar always want Marshall to be himself, and Edgar’s stories are sometimes about the balance of Marshall’s self expression vs. him being in danger, or like, annoying.
Edward and Mary-Anne seem more eager for Mitchell to conform to the perfect son. Same with Rodney. I’ve been nursing a Mitchell Gay theory for a while, and I feel like this is part of it like metaphorically. Actually now I’m much more into the rewatch as well, I think quite a few episodes are about Mitchell conforming (or not) to another way of being. I’m Okay, Standard Deviation, Mr Lucky along with this episode want him to change, while Last Laugh, Perfect and Buddy Beep Beep all imply that Mitchell as he is, is abnormal. Given that Mitchell is an Eerie Native, it must be something else about him that cause him to be ‘othered’.
I don’t know if it was on purpose by the writers or just a case of 90s misogyny that prevented Mitchell from having any female love interests. Probably the latter.
In and of itself, not a shock. 92 Eerie has plenty of people discoursing about what Dash X ‘means’ and I’ve made plenty of posts about Marshall and being Othered. But I’ve never felt like Eerie itself wants to change Marshall the way it does Mitchell, but the theming would be consistent.
Anyway this is all a bit rambley and written on my phone on my lunch break lol but the point is Mitchell Gay.
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Date: 2025-05-19 03:21 am (UTC)Edward and Mary-Anne seem more eager for Mitchell to conform to the perfect son. Same with Rodney. I’ve been nursing a Mitchell Gay theory for a while, and I feel like this is part of it like metaphorically. Actually now I’m much more into the rewatch as well, I think quite a few episodes are about Mitchell conforming (or not) to another way of being. I’m Okay, Standard Deviation, Mr Lucky along with this episode want him to change, while Last Laugh, Perfect and Buddy Beep Beep all imply that Mitchell as he is, is abnormal. Given that Mitchell is an Eerie Native, it must be something else about him that cause him to be ‘othered’.
I don’t know if it was on purpose by the writers or just a case of 90s misogyny that prevented Mitchell from having any female love interests. Probably the latter.
In and of itself, not a shock. 92 Eerie has plenty of people discoursing about what Dash X ‘means’ and I’ve made plenty of posts about Marshall and being Othered. But I’ve never felt like Eerie itself wants to change Marshall the way it does Mitchell, but the theming would be consistent.
Anyway this is all a bit rambley and written on my phone on my lunch break lol but the point is Mitchell Gay.