Is Lorne still getting catfished to this day?
Mar 28, 2024 13:08:42 GMT -5
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Post by The Notorious MOAB on Mar 28, 2024 13:08:42 GMT -5
Not an unfair assessment. It does bear considering though that on a big picture level, Cas3y got pretty lucky and was managed well. All the shit with Chris Hansen tying into the start and the cover story being the most believable lie Lornes bought IMO with the blackmail. Cas3y (mostly) legit telling Lorne the truth about the catfishing was good too. They made a hell of a save.
Lornes still around but you can tell his investment level is greatly diminished in the back half of the saga, particularly once DD-87 blows up in his face. Lorne is never gonna be a smart b'guy but he was definitely growing detached in a way we hadn't seen before that I don't think can be entirely attributed to Cas3y being cold to him since the rest of the catfish weren't particularly nice most of the time either.
The idea that Cas3y fell in love with a stranger in two weeks, sent nudes and went to see her and then got blackmailed by some shadowy troll cabal into trolling Lorne with a fake throuple is again so ridiculous that only Lorne could believe it and only because he is a retard and also has a superhuman ability to suspend his disbelief when he chooses to. It is on par with his belief that Xavier is fixated on him and orchestrating his every misfortune from behind the scenes.
I would say that even through all the abuse and shenanigans, the airport trip happened late in the saga right? So even after all of this ridiculous shit Lorne was still willing to drop everything and borrow (i.e. steal) his mother's car and drive 4 hrs in the middle of the night to the airport and back. I bet if he waited a bit and did a little more in photo shop Blueboy could have got Lorne to do it again too, or something equally or even more ridiculous. Despite his misgivings, he was still ready to go all-in at any time even towards the end.
The storyline of the entire saga is so completely over the top retarded that only Lorne would believe it. That's not a criticism of the catfish, it almost seems like they were stress-testing his credulity throughout the whole thing and I'm sure they were aware that the more ridiculous it became the funnier it would be for us afterwards so they were balancing that against the need to have Lorne actually believe it without knowing for sure where his limits were.
Oh I agree its still ridiculous, but compared to Winnie era shit? Positively grounded. Lorne has believed some truly ridiculous shit, it's only more believable in the context of his insane fantasyland. Like you mentioned the Xavier conspiracy thing, which is a relic of Ember mindfucking him. A lot of stuff like the whirlwind romance of Cas3y and Jaime are ridiculous in the real world but in Lorne's mind it's totally believable so while it would stretch the credulity of an actual human being, it doesn't really require any stretches for Lorne.
The airport thing happened, if the chronological playlist is correct, during the Throuple era or thereabouts, before Jaime got exposed. That's why Cas3y was able to play it off long term, she could say she was forced to do it.