Talk:Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: Difference between revisions

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::The lack of linearity in the plot is a characteristic of the surreal genre. Doesn't make sense to ask the summaries to have something the episodes don't have. (see for example David Lynch's [[Eraserhead]]; Jodorowsky's [[The Holy Mountain (1973 film)]]). - <code>[[User:Daveout|'''Daveout''']]</code><small>[[User talk:Daveout|<span style="color:#333b40">(talk)</span>]]</small> 15:26, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

:::I don't know, those two plot sections, even if non-linear to some degree, still seem to describe something much more cohesive, or do so in a better way. At the risk of repeating myself a little, the sections here, drawing on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Hug_Me_I%27m_Scared&oldid=1031676919#Episode_3:_Love Episode 3: Love] are mostly retellings, which, as I mentioned, makes sense in a way if you want to stretch out something that really is quite thin as far as plot or meaning goes. For example, that one puppet says "pesky bee", that the puppet repeats this later in the episode, or that another puppet says "father" before being crushed. A lot of these details listed, I would imagine, is simply fluff -- filler which may or may not have any real meaning or overall significance to the plot, so providing a concise plot summary is not really possible on such a per-episode basis because it can only be done through this scattershot, mention-everything kind of way, whereas the general plot section does so much more elegantly in a broader, more accessible way by looking at all the episodes as a whole. The way I see it, the episodes exist on a continuum -- Given how short they are and how they exist almost separately from each other apart from the episodes progressive falling apart so to speak, when you describe them individually, and in the amount of detail done in the linked example, you actually end up conveying less. In a way, brevity is lost. [[User:Eik Corell|Eik Corell]] ([[User talk:Eik Corell|talk]]) 23:39, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

::[[User:Eik Corell|@Eik Corell]] I agree. There have been can theories about what's happening in the episodes, but there's never been an official explanation; and I think that this article describes the episodes well, without giving it a story, because there is no story.

:::) [[User:Oversized Lego spoon 64|Oversized Lego spoon 64]] ([[User talk:Oversized Lego spoon 64|talk]]) 14:17, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

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