#( also the reason i didn't mention butterscotch is because we don't. really get that much about him

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You know what, I’m gonna say something, and some people aren’t gonna agree with me:

As a child abuse victim myself, I’m so glad that the show didn’t have BoJack forgive his mother, and I’m glad he was shown to be antagonistic towards her in her final moments.  It’s incredibly selfish of him, and I acknowledge that his behaviour was shitty, but at the end of the day, the way she treated him shaped who he was for the rest of his life, and he hates what he’s become.

As much power as he had to change his own circumstances, he was still a product of his youth--  as everybody is, and he wasn’t equipped with the tools to combat what he became.  It was refreshing to have a show feature a character that didn’t forgive their abuser.  Yes, he pitied her towards the end when he painted her that picture to allow her to return to her delusions, but that illustrates the good that resides in BoJack, not in forgiving somebody who was awful to him.

I personally love that BoJack was vindictive until the bitter end--  and then some, considering he smeared her at her funeral too.  As much as you could argue that it was needlessly cruel, the same can be said for the way she raised him, and I feel as if BoJack deserved that sliver of power over somebody that made his life miserable and set him up for failure.

I really wish he’d gotten that “Fuck you, mom.”  in.  She didn’t deserve his kindness.

#🞮 — 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒... ❜ ( HEADCANONS. ) #child abuse / #[ funnily enough-- the show painted a picture of bea that made me feel sympathy for her #and i DO feel sympathetic towards her-- she was troubled and traumatised from a young age #and had such a fucky life #but at the end of the day #just like bojack's actions can't be excused with his mental health; bea's can't be excused with her shitty upbringing #she was an abusive piece of shit towards her son and wholeheartedly believe that it is the fault of his parents that he turned out so fucke #and jaded. #( also the reason i didn't mention butterscotch is because we don't. really get that much about him #it's hard to make any conclusive comments about his upbringing because we're not given anything #we can gather he's absent-- even if only by the fact that his father is replaced by secretariat in tvfhd #and i think that was done deliberately #bojack didn't know his father at all and only had a handful of memories with him-- so we only got to see that much as an audience ]