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Saeed iCrimy

Fammm a double to paranoia!! 🔥 I shall watch it after I get off work lol we're so close to the end

Baker

Ikari's wife I think was battling with the idea of giving up and either committing suicide or waiting for her illness to take over. The red flowers in their garden are known as Higanbana or "Spider Lilies" which are associated with the idea of death and loss. Shonen Bat like many times before is waiting to "free" her, but she refuses on the pure principle that it's worth continuing to fight because in her mind her husband is worth it. Shonen Bat has been giving people a false escape, a means to avoid the reality of the world around them and the life they're leading. The reality is that in our lives when cornered we have no saviour who will come and free us from our despair and we shouldn't beg and look for it. The only people who will save us are ourselves and those that matter, that we should look at the reality around us instead of false hopes. Ikari has been given his nostalgic matches back and now has a full pack of hope cigarettes in his hand again, an old enemy brought him back to the past to remember why he did what he did, to bring him back to himself. Maniwa running around looking like he's gone further down the deep end but also looking very similar to Kozuka in that interrogation episode, could be that he's taken up the mantle of the hero fighting the evil "Gohma"

Saeed iCrimy

My thoughts on episode 10: I totally forgot about that episode, so I'm totally theorizing here (not like Paranoia can be spoiled lol), seeing Saruta attacking the producer at the end with a bat (ironically, to take credit for delivering the episode) makes you think this weasel could've been the one who killed the entire team and is blaming it on Shounen Bat..! or he was actually possessed by Shounen Bat (?). Then he was the last victim of himself/Shounen Bat, where it could've just been the accident that took him out.. that's why shounen bat was so "fast" following the car, he wasn't fast, perhaps he was always there within him? makes ya think.

Saeed iCrimy

About this episode, Shounen Bat could be a real being/human, but the last episode with his superhuman speed, and this episode with him becoming a giant, especially after the ex-detective's wife overheard people saying he is a "giant", it means he could also be a metaphorical being or something mental that people envision to get themselves out of their issues (even if there was a real deal shounen bat, the idea of him is far bigger than himself now). He's something you can chase away by fighting the dark feelings in your heart. That said, we did see the wife's house become increasingly destroyed. I interpreted this as the wife's own raging about. My guess is that her monologue was happening in her head as she broke things in the house to vent stress. Similarly, I bet she bumped her head somehow which is why she started bleeding. But her comparison between Maromi and Shounen bat being "two sides of the same coin" is the biggest takeaway here I believe. Meaning she thinks Maromi is similarly a false escape of reality, which is something negative.. Marmoi is the shaitan's work (Maromi is Labubu YO) xD

Saeed iCrimy

Beautifully said man, your last comment about Gohma gave me goosebumps for some reason! Lol that detective seems far gone xD