u/Able-Light-890

It seems like Naraku spent his entire existence searching for power. Gathering jewel shards, finding strong demons to absorb, expelling useless parts of himself—it was all to become stronger.

He even tried to rid himself of another motivation (lust for Kikyo) as a weakness.

But, power is usually a means to an end, right?

If he had succeeded in his plans, become super powerful , and destroyed the Inu-gang, what did he want next?

We just started Final Act, and the end is near!

I love Inuyasha for millennial nostalgia. My kid loves it because the fights are cool, he feels like he’s watching something for Big Kids, and he relates to Shippo of all people.

Is there another show that could match this energy?

Does anyone else think that Clark killed his wife before the start of the movie?

Clark is obsessed with the author and the audiotapes which say he can move on to a new life without letting his trauma shape his path forward. This is just as people talk after committing a great sin: “I’ve put that behind me. I’m a different person now.”

The backrooms are influenced by the human mind, and this area is influenced by Clark’s most of all. Perhaps a mind in greater distress, disturbance, and denial would be more influential. Perhaps that kind of mind can create an opening to the Backrooms.

The timing of Clark’s fight with his wife may be a lie (further in the past than he leads his therapist to believe.) Scientists seem to have been aware of Clark for a while. (Years?) They recognize him on TV because they’ve seen his shadow self in the Backrooms for a while. They have had time to photograph the outside of his store. Maybe Clark became mentally disturbed around the time of his wife’s death, and the Clark-centric influences in the Backrooms appeared around then.

Clark never returns home during the film. He says he’s been “kicked out of his own home,” but this could be a cope, an invention of his imagination. His home is a messy murder scene he doesn’t want to face.

Why keep paying the financially burdensome mortgage on a house he’s not allowed in? why not begin to divide assets in a divorce ? As long as the house is private property, the murder scene is a secret.

Clark never talks to his wife on the phone during the movie, nor to her lawyers.

Clark’s wife dropped out of school, so she has no appointments or classes to get to. No one is searching for her.

The framed picture of Clark with his wife shows someone similar to the red-headed shadow person in the backrooms. He rips off Shadow Wife’s red hair to make his therapist wear it when role playing his wife.

When Clark first sees the Shadow Wife, she’s moving fast in a dim room, and you can’t see there’s something wrong with her face. And yet, he’s terrified. Why wouldn’t he say, “Darling, how did you get in here?” Instead it’s “GET AWAY FROM ME.” He’s scared because he knows she’s dead.

In his fantasy kitchen, Clark treats the red-headed Shadow Wife violently.

The Shadow Wife is terrified of Shadow Clark, even though the other shadow people have no reaction to Shadow Clark. Is she scared of him because Clark killed her?

Clark’s knife looks weird and flat, like it’s not fully rendered, suggesting it’s a memory. Clark manifests only a few objects from his house. Might he remember the knife in particular because it’s a murder weapon?

Clark wants to hear from his therapist “I didn’t do anything wrong.” Past tense. I don’t believe he was talking about the crimes he was currently engaged in, but the murder he’d already committed.

Clark’s apparent sudden transformation into a kidnapper and a murderer doesn’t make sense as a mere response to the Backrooms. The other characters who went down there were scared, too, but it didn’t make them murderous. Clark’s murderousness makes more sense as something he was hiding and suppressing all along, revealed by the stress of all this surreal violence and confusion.

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&gt;!I’m so afraid that poor Becka will be lobotomized!<

&gt;!The early seasons of Handmaids Tale were filled with gruesome punishments for fertile women who were needed alive for their wombs only. Janine could still make babies without her eye. Emily could still make babies without her cl!toris.!<

&gt;!”You need help, Becka. They’re taking you to a doctor.”!<

&gt;!They may say poor Becka has lost her mind, but they won’t let her womb go to waste. So they will lobotomize her and transition her into a handmaid. !<

&gt;!Perhaps Agnes’ parents’ own handmaid!!<

&gt;!Becka would smile and look right through the love of her life, not even recognizing her, not understanding that she’d lost her soul…!<