Y'all already know it's rant time -
So it's finally Diane's turn. I feel like even though she's one of the main five characters, she gets pushed out of the spotlight a lot. Her most notable quote is the "sometimes life's a bitch and then you keep living" and it's an amazing quote, but I think her first big quote all the way back in season 1 deserves some recognition too. What line is it you may ask? "I don't think I believe in deep down. I kind of think all you are is just the things you do." Why is this quote brushed aside every fucking time when it sums up the premise of the whole damn show?? I think those two lines can connect right back to my "There is no other side" post. Bojack was constantly looking for a way to justify himself. Believing there was another side to reinvent himself in, and that no matter what he does, there's still hope for him to be a good person. But he isn't. He clung onto anything and everyone to make himself feel better. Letting Sarah Lynn stay with him while enabling and sleeping with her, reconnecting with Charlotte and then almost sleeping with her underage daughter, being there as a brother to Hollyhock until his past caught up with him and inevitably losing all contact with her. Diane didn't believe in deep down. That's why when Bojack would come up with any excuse for what he'd done, she was the one to immediately call him out on it. Diane had her philosophy and grew from it. She moved on from Mr. Peanutbutter (even if she did sleep with him twice after) and she allowed herself to be happy and loved. That's what Bojack couldn't achieve. He tried so hard to justify the idea of deep down that he eventually fell halfway down with no other side to save him. Falling with only repercussions of what he did to stay with him forever.
