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urlocallesbiab · 2 years

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a dghda s2/s3 theory: the universe meant for amanda to become an omniscient master of backstage knowledge, and friedkin took that place instead of her through a series of mistakes

(this post gets Very Long, but you can scroll right to the end for a TL;DR)

now, allow me to provide some context before i delve into an explanation

first, a precursory theory: if suzie boreton died like she was meant to, then lord triangle badevil would have became the mage's apprentice

in s2ep1 bart makes a choice not to kill suzie, even though she feels like she should; and then throughout the season the fact that suzie isn't meant to be a part of things is alluded to:

1) in the end of s2ep8 dirk gives his usual Case Solved speech where he explains how everything is connected, but he doesn't know how suzie boreton figures into things; she's not, technically, a part of his case

2) in s2ep10 todd asks her who is she and why is she there, and accuses her of being "some mom from montana", which further drives the point home

3) king francis has no knowledge of her either, even though he seems to be able to know relevant things that he could neither witness nor hear about (like farah and tina defeating the mage)

so, suzie's boreton entire character arc exists by mistake; and yet the prophecy (as foretold by wakti wapnasi, and as spoken by panto trost in s2ep3) makes a point about the great dark wizard finding his apprentice — that means that role was meant for someone.

lord triangle badevil is a mysterious figure who plays a significant role in the plot (his men kidnap farson and later amanda in s2ep4, he kills farson and thus causes a massive shoot-out in s2ep7, and he kills some people in his attempts to stop the prophecy in eps 9 and 10), and yet we know infuriatingly little about him, his goals and his views, like he was meant to be explored but got forgotten about.

he has markings on his face (pitch-black with negative-space geometrical figures) which are never discussed, but seem to be the same sort of marks that appear on arms of both the mage and suzie boreton from magic overuse, and that seems to suggest that he is, in some way, a magic user, or at least was exposed to magic somehow.

all things considered, i propose that lord triangle badevil, a mysterious actor of evil and supposedly a magic user, was meant to be the prophecied apprentice & the big bad, but got displaced by suzie, who wound up in the narrative by mistake.

next, an observation: wendimoor's magic, pararibulitis and backstage are closely linked

it's not much of a novel revelation, but i'm trying to be thorough, so here

— both amanda&todd and later friedkin could access backstage through the magical portals between earth and wendimoor

— most powerful beings of wendimoor (wakti wapnasi, the great witch; king francis) seem to be omniscient or close to, and omniscience is a backstage characterestic

(they both know things about earth they shouldn't be able to know, like wakti about amanda's name, or francis about farah&tina's win over the mage; and metaphysical things that are nigh impossible to be logically derived from facts, like holistics being the tools to fix the broken universe)

— pararibulitis expresses itself as tangible magic within wendimoor, and is tied to wielding the water/portals and to the visions

— visions are also a form of mystical knowledge, and thus could be sourced from backstage

(the exact reasons of how/why the connection between wendimoor and backstage could've happened have no bearing on this post, but so far my working theory is that the explosive creation of a whole new layer of reality pushed at the borders of the universe and stretched them/thinned them out, and that's why it's easier to slip from the material world of the universe to the immaterial not-world of the backstage when in wendimoor)

now, a couple of tidbits about amanda and the mandelbrot set:

— her name, amanda brotzman, is a pun on "mandelbrot set" (the showrunner talked about this somewhere; i don't know the source, i've learned about this somewhere in the ao3 comment section)

— mandelbrot set's visualisation is the shape that appears in people's eyes when they're backstage

— it's the same shape as on amanda's s2 jacket

— it's a recurring shape in her visions

(a tangent: now, i don't know much about mathematics so forgive me if i get the words wrong, but mandelbrot set's boundary is a fractal curve, meaning that if you zoom into the mandelbrot set's visualisation's border, you'll find more of the same shape, ad infinitum. this fun quality of the set has no bearing on this specific post and theories within it, but i think such a plot-important shape having this "as above, so below" flair to it could have meaning for the pontetial s3 plot)

— the prophecy mentions she-who-sees-all who was supposed to open a door into a dream, allowing through it dirk gently and the boy; that most probably references amanda, her visions and her ability to create portals through water

finally, the theory:

— amanda brotzman, mandelbrot set, visions, pararibulitis, wendimoor magic and backstage are all interconnected

— amanda was supposed to be she who sees all; backstage seems to have granted hugo friedkin omniscience

— stangely, amanda didn't see any higher meaning in the stars when she was there, and her eyes were the same color as todd's; when friedkin got there, his eyes were red, and he was enlightened

— there were a couple of things different about how amanda and hugo accessed backstage: amanda got there only mentally while her body was elsewhere, she was there together with todd, and she was alive; hugo's body fell through the portal, he was alone, and he was either dead or dying. any of those things, i think, could be what allowed him to connect to the backstage's knowledge. (my personal interpretation is that it's the part about dying, just to sprinkle more angst and terror into amanda's s3 conflict over it)

— hugo got into that predicament (alone, dying, pushed physically through a portal) because he was grievously wounded by lord badevil; if lord wasn't there, none of that would've happened. and as i have argued above, i believe that lord badevil wasn't supposed to be there! it's a chain reaction of displacement — suzie took lord badevil's place, he ended up killing hugo, and hugo took amanda's place

TL;DR: suzie boreton was never meant to survive bart, she displaced lord triangle badevil as the mage's apprentice, lord wound up on earth and killed hugo, hugo fell through the portal and became the master of the knowledge that amanda was supposed to be, displacing her.

we can suspect that the place was reserved for amanda because of the ties between pararibulitis, magic, her, mandelbrot set and backstage, and because she was canonically refered to as "she who sees all"

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faintwhitenoise · 2 years

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Alright? These kind of people need to be out in the world. And... please don't shock me. Please don't shock me.

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phonoix · 1 year

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Okay but I want mooooooree of Makkari and Kingo's friendship. I'm talking about them watching all of Kingo's movies and Makkari being so hyped and Sprite joining in just to roast Kingo's ass. Or Kingo teaching Makkari what an iPad and a Kindle is.

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lungsareforlove · 2 years

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the mighty nein 🤝🏽 the rowdy three

more or less the number they say they are

#listen. in season 1 when they said they where the rowdy three but they were four it was funny #but (spoilers) in season 2??? when they were only two???? HILARIOUS #the mighty nein #dghda

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delta-triangle · 4 years

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“Poor, confused, dangerous, little Svlad Cjelli”

Dirk Gently AU with the sanders sides. Don’t worry, Patton’s not dead, just traumatized.

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glitchyred56 · 5 years

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#probs been done before #dirk #dirk gently’s holistic detective agency #dirk gently #todd brotzman #panto #spoilers?#memes #bart #brotzly #amanda brotzman #fandom #fangirl #dghda #dghda season 2 #farah black #silas

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pierrotpatroclus · 5 years

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rambly dirk gently meta or smthn

so ive been thinking about this scene from s2

that i absolutely adore a lot

and i think the reason i love it so much is the way vogel's first response without hesitation is to go "son". Like that already shows he thinks of amanda as a motherly figure in his life and thats??? so wholesome from a kid who grew up in an environment where the rowdies are probably the closest to parents he's had in at Least 16 years.

And his reaction to being called her bf also emphasises how ace friendly the show is as a whole?? And no im not saying he's ace/aro but obviously he and the other subjects would understandably not be thinking of sexual stuff most of the time, they didnt get a childhood or a chance to grow up as exposed to our hypersexual culture as a whole?? like bart barely knows what a tv is ffs. and the show reflects this sort of light adult-but-childlike energy in a way that doesnt come off as creepy-borderline-predatory-sexualisation-of-innocence Or kids show.

an example being bart who gets presented as basically half naked or even naked several times but is never objectified or sexualised. And while the show does have mature themes (like the implied orgy/todd and farahs apparent makeout on the search to find dirk) its never made into a Big Deal and the overal childishly bizzare theme of the show as a whole is never forcibly shifted to go over it?

Basically I just find it a burst of fresh air, don't get me wrong shows with sex scenes are fine and most of my favourite shows have one at some point. But as an asexual who's gone through phases of absolute denial and refusal to process my sexuality due to society's insistence that EVERYONE and thing needs to inevitably lead to banging its just very freeing to watch.

TLDR: dirk gently doesn't feel like it was filmed or written by someone who focuses on sex to sell a show and that makes me happy

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holisticdetectives · 6 years

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{the end}

#i mean the end as in the end of the fairytale of season 2 #we better get season 3!#dirk gently #dghda #dirk gently's holistic detective agency #todd brotzman #farah black #tina tevetino #sherlock hobbs #silas dengdamor #panto trost #210 #spoilers #dghda spoilers #mine #okay time for bed for me #what an episode #i love you guys #1k

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elijahwoodnot · 6 years

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spacebibbit · 6 years

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this looks like straight out of some kind of shakespearian play

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renarent · 6 years

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Finally Dirk Gently has received all the understanding, care and protection in the world. He has got friends. He has got family.

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urlocallesbiab · 2 years

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you ever think about season 2 brotzly....

every time todd is asked why is he here, why is he doing any of this, he diverts back to amanda — his love, his life, his reason to exist, his, to be frank, emotional contingency plan

"todd, why are you so hell-bent on-"

"no, farah, no! we won't give up! we'll find dirk, and with dirk we'll find amanda, and when i find amanda everything will be alright!"

"todd, why are you even here? why are you with me when it's so dangerous and horrible and i can't even promise you anything?"

"dirk, listen, i really wanna find amanda, and i have reasons to believe she is being kept in the parallel fairytale world to which you are the key"

but in the end? he chooses dirk.

and it's not like in s1, when amanda firmly pushed him away and had the kindness of her heart to say "cmon, that dude makes you a happier and better person, don't avoid him"

no, this time around she invited him to live with her — something he had seemingly been chasing all that time

but he just. shrugged. declined. nah, sis, but thanks. his place is by dirk. he knows that. dirk, on some level, knows that too. it's not spoken about, and i'm not even sure that todd has the guts to admit it, but it's something he knows. he no longer has the space to pretend that his beloved baby sister is the centerpiece of all this bullshit. in the end, he verbally, directly, openly chose dirk.

and it's not something that either of them will forget about.

#dghda #dghda meta #dirk gently's holistic detective agency (tv 2016)#dghda season 2 spoilers #brotzly #vika's personal dghda tag #vikarambles #alright guess who's found a meta of theirs that doesnt require the context of a dozen of previous micro-essays to be understood! yay!!!#dirk gently #todd brotzman

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bi-tinatevetino · 6 years

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