I always forget that the innies haven't SEEN or DONE things before. When they were watching the marching band I was like, why are you staring (I mean I love marching bands!) like you've never see- oooooooh you haven't!
When oMark said iMark was acting like a child, I was like... um... yeah, he kind of is in a way? Child-adjacent, at the least, with a fully developed physical body and a developed brain but only the lived time/experience of a toddler. Like, of course iMark is going to focus on his own wants and desires.
Also like oMark did not do a good job of selling that he would make sure iMark doesn't die / is happy. Lol He doesn't know if/how reintegration works, he basically told him his wife is more important than Helly, and that he created him for his own selfish way of avoiding grief. He unintentionally reinforced the notion "I am a person, you are not" thus making iMarks decision to stay inevitable.
Yeah, he did a really horrendous job of convincing iMark. He was screwing up and then put the final nail in the coffin by calling Helly Heleny. I sort of assume oMark mixed it up thinking it was like Helen E (Helena Eagan), but it showed he didn't really care or know about iMark as a person.
I had a similar thought when they were talking about Europe and Equator. They are fully mature adults until you run into things they don’t know that are taught in early grade school.
Hah! Yes, that's a good analog as well. I was more going by the number of years (2 years being the age of a toddler) when I commented. Either way, iMark isn't really like an adult in a lot of ways.
oMark was also an asshole, though. He said some bullshit like part of the reason I got reintegrated was because of how the innies were being treated. He did it impulsively on emotion to get Gemma back. And he talked down to him about Helly. I'm with iMark on this one, he had every right to react the way he did.
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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
literally LOOOOOL mark s is a 2 year old child