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like damn... but also PERFECT conclusion to season 1! One of the themes throughout this whole season has been Hayden being/feeling like a passive party (ie. a member of the audience and watching from the sidelines, being “manipulated" by Brett in the relationship and pulled around) but in diving in front of Brett and saving his life, that’s like the most “main character”/“active” thing someone can do! the clearest example of Hayden showing his agency and making a "choice"
It’s also the perfect callback to when Hayden invited Brett to watch that play with him and Hayden’s explained that he admired self-sacrifice, nobility, rising above one’s selfish instincts, etc. Saving Brett’s life exemplifies all of those traits that he believes in! Brett made fun of all of that before when watching the play and found all of it unrealistic, so I wonder what his thoughts are going to be like now eeeee
(There’s also the thorny situation - how much of Hayden saving Brett will be bc of his own agency, and how much of it is bc he bonded with Brett ie. his bodily instincts…there’s that whole thematic element of animal instinct vs. rising above your instincts, etc. but is it really an either/or situation? hmm)
ANYWAYS LOVE LOVE give me season 2 already UGHHH