Have any of the "main character is actually in a coma" theories ever actually been proven correct?
Where do people come up with this shit anyway? Is it because of that ending in Nintendo DS Drawn-to-life or does it extend beyond that?
>>83966828
St elsewhere
>>83966847
What?
>>83966865
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAOVxqg49DQ
>>83966865
The series finale of St. Elsewhere reveals that the entirety of the show was just the imagination of an autistic child.
>>83966865
A bunch of shows in the 90s are all in the head of an autistic boy
>>83966935
And every show it crossover with and every show those shows crossed over eith
>>83966943
So how did that morph into "in a coma"?
(Not disputing it, I've seen that explanation many a time for where it all comes from, and it makes sense, just that specific mutation interests me.)
>>83966828
Literally none of them.
Because cynical assholes with no imagination thing that it would somehow make the show "deeper" or "more real".
>>83966998
I think it has to do with the whole "It was all a dream" cliche, except a coma is more dramatic and appeals to pathos. It's really cheap and unimaginative.
>>83966828
>drawn to life
did they really? wow.
>>83966998
>>83967231
there's more to it too, a coma is longlasting and it has the "some part of you knows it's not real and wants to wake up but some other part wants to remain forever" aspect. i don't know who started that, but i know i've played a few flash games like that and i love them
>>83967379
Yup.
http://drawntolife.wikia.com/wiki/Real_Life
>>83966828
It could be applied to literally any show. Its just an incredibly lazy and cliche "theory " that people come up with to try to he interesting.
The Foster's comic was okay because it started the fad, and was a direct parody/homage to St Elsewhere
>>83967631
I actually liked the Ed,Edd and Eddy purgatory theory, even though I don't think it has any truth to it.
>>83967441
wow
i remember playing that game when i was younger. didnt know there was a sequel.
suprising amounts of jesus shit out of nowhere.
>>83966998
it predates st. elsewhere too -- for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge . it's a pretty common narrative trope
i think what really made the 'coma' version take off is that it combines two aspects that seem to make clickbaity riffs on children's media really take off: the 'dark/adult' aspect and the idea that there was some hidden meaning that you didn't get the first time you saw it
the coma explanation is better than the dream/autism one for those purposes, both because it's grimmer and because it suggests that there's a secret 'real' version of the story taking place simultaneously. if you ask me that's probably why it's the default interpretation now
>>83966828
does "it's all been a computer program" count?12 Oz Mousehad that
>>83966828
If saints row was a show.
everything saints row 3 and after was all a coma.
>>83968738
Don't you mean after Saints Row? I haven't finished 2, so unless it ends with the boss reentering a coma that wouldn't make much sense.
>>83966828
You're in a coma, your life up to this point has been a dream, wake up.
I remember a live action show on YTV back in the day that was about a kid in a coma. But that was the premise, and his Dad had apparently been to his dream world first meaning it might have been magic shit.
So maybe it doesn't count.
>>83968522
There's an interpretation of The Matrix like that.Neo and the rebels never actually succeed in escaping, they're just in a different version of the same Matrix created as a backup or some shit.
>>83966828
Fosters home for imaginary friends.
>>83968889
i like to think that saints row is split into two realities, one being everything that is saints row 1 and 2, and the other being saints row 1 and so on where the boss is still in a coma.
maybe if saints row went back to what it was or it being all a dream, where the boss saw the future and rewrite his mistakes.
>>83966828
Gotta love how the mom in this comic barely looks like she gives a shit.
>>83966828
Breaking Bad counts, right?
>>83972668
I feel damn bad for the dog though. Sad shit with dogs always gets me.
Well there was "The Sting" in Futurama, but that was just one episode.
>>83972785
<--
>When you find out this was based on a real story.
>>83973320
I always fucking hate when people bring up theories like that. Like it was a neat thougt the first time it happens but then it got applied to literally every show.
>>83976318
tell me about it
>>83966943
I thought that the St. Elsewhere crossover episodes were his austitic fanfic.
Buffy did something similar once. That was cool.
