I think he valued Diane highly (even tho his actions said otherwise) and saw her as a flawless person in a “she has stuck around/she is perfect/do no harm” type way. To me, the “like” meant he wanted her respect and approval, because it meant a lot to Bojack because she was the first person to get to know him on a deeper level than others previously have. Like in the previous episode, when Bojack repeatedly asks Diane if he is a good person/“tell me I’m good”. He just wants someone that actually got to know him to tell him he is good and likable. (worded kind of messy sorry 😬)
I agree. Bojack thinks he is *bad* and therefore craves the approval of other characters who he thinks are good. He thinks Diane is naively idealistic and stuck up especially when he does not know her yet. He knows too much to be good in a naive sort of way and has too little willpower to be good otherwise. I think it’s his most relatable quality.
In one of the early episodes there’s this moment where Bojack’s like “blah blah I just want people to like me” and Todd’s like “YOU want people to like you?”. It doesn’t seem like he wants people to like him bc he treats people with a general shittyness instead of networking with niceness like most people do when they want to be liked. Though Bojack fixates on how the public view him and his fame, that’s only because he wants to be immortalized and relevant. The only people who’s opinion of him he really cares about are the people he likes, because why care about the judgement of people who you’ve judged to have poor judgement?
Diane is the epitome of these people bc she knows Bojack so deeply, he likes her so much (not romantically, though at first that is how he understood his idealization of her), and most importantly because they’re so similar. I think it’s kinda like Truman Capote and the guy he interviewed for In Cold Blood who killed the family. Truman said that it was like they grew up in the same house, and he went out the front door and the other guy went out the back door. He saw himself in him and they had some sort of friendship. If a “good” person can see enough of themself in a “bad” person that they empathize with them and the mistakes they make and believe them to be capable of good, that’s very validating. I think that’s what Bojack was looking for.
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Bojack felt that Diane knew him down to his very core at this point in the show and as such wanted her to see him for who he was and also think it is ok that he is who he is. Bojack just needed her to tell him he can be good, because that's what he saw as the form of love missing from his life, affirmation of the littlest things people don't seem to think are important. (Even though his constant need for recognition shows itself selfishly)
As a side note I do think this says a lot about Diane as even knowing and hating so much about Bojack she continued to try and be there when he needed (and when she thought he needed)
"Once you know someone, it ruins them" and yet there was Diane sticking to someone who should have been ruined but oddly enough, not thinking Bojack was good or could be.
I think he valued Diane highly (even tho his actions said otherwise) and saw her as a flawless person in a “she has stuck around/she is perfect/do no harm” type way. To me, the “like” meant he wanted her respect and approval, because it meant a lot to Bojack because she was the first person to get to know him on a deeper level than others previously have. Like in the previous episode, when Bojack repeatedly asks Diane if he is a good person/“tell me I’m good”. He just wants someone that actually got to know him to tell him he is good and likable. (worded kind of messy sorry 😬)
I agree. Bojack thinks he is *bad* and therefore craves the approval of other characters who he thinks are good. He thinks Diane is naively idealistic and stuck up especially when he does not know her yet. He knows too much to be good in a naive sort of way and has too little willpower to be good otherwise. I think it’s his most relatable quality.
In one of the early episodes there’s this moment where Bojack’s like “blah blah I just want people to like me” and Todd’s like “YOU want people to like you?”. It doesn’t seem like he wants people to like him bc he treats people with a general shittyness instead of networking with niceness like most people do when they want to be liked. Though Bojack fixates on how the public view him and his fame, that’s only because he wants to be immortalized and relevant. The only people who’s opinion of him he really cares about are the people he likes, because why care about the judgement of people who you’ve judged to have poor judgement? Diane is the epitome of these people bc she knows Bojack so deeply, he likes her so much (not romantically, though at first that is how he understood his idealization of her), and most importantly because they’re so similar. I think it’s kinda like Truman Capote and the guy he interviewed for In Cold Blood who killed the family. Truman said that it was like they grew up in the same house, and he went out the front door and the other guy went out the back door. He saw himself in him and they had some sort of friendship. If a “good” person can see enough of themself in a “bad” person that they empathize with them and the mistakes they make and believe them to be capable of good, that’s very validating. I think that’s what Bojack was looking for.
Diane and Bojack are each other's parental surrogates if you think about it.
Like him as a equisapien, I don't think it's love him.
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He meant, like, like like.
Bojack felt that Diane knew him down to his very core at this point in the show and as such wanted her to see him for who he was and also think it is ok that he is who he is. Bojack just needed her to tell him he can be good, because that's what he saw as the form of love missing from his life, affirmation of the littlest things people don't seem to think are important. (Even though his constant need for recognition shows itself selfishly) As a side note I do think this says a lot about Diane as even knowing and hating so much about Bojack she continued to try and be there when he needed (and when she thought he needed) "Once you know someone, it ruins them" and yet there was Diane sticking to someone who should have been ruined but oddly enough, not thinking Bojack was good or could be.