Holy foreshadowing
For fun I went back and watched what I beleive now to be the beginning of the end - where Vito banned the chatters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_Ik1XnfGM
Watching back I was blown away about the amount of foreshadowing:
- Vito smugly calls it a 'new era' - Dick calls it a 'death spiral'
- Dick says banning people who bought the comic will turn on him. Vito says that's fine and it's funny to just block people and there's nothing they can do it about. Dick says they will tear apart SuperKiller when it comes out. Vito says that's fine. (It wasn't fine). Dick also mentions the second kickstarter which Vito says "we'll see what happens, I don't need to make a lot" - on the most recent episode Vito concedes the next kickstarter will fail and the pressure from people on it failing has been getting to him.
- Dick says he will be labelled as 'a guy who can't take criticism' like Eric July. Last episode superchatters said he has become exactly like Eric July.
- Vito talks about how if he has to kill the show he will. Great work Vito, you seemed stoked on how it's dead while being on the edge of tears giving soppy monologues over the titanic song and and in the last episode.
- Dick tells Vito banned fans won't back down - they'll escalate. Exactly what happened with people coming to Vito's house.
- Baldur talks about getting banned for calling vito a bus funnily enough in this episode but also last episode.
Whole episode is Vito being very smug and Dick listing a whole bunch of reasons it's not a good idea. It's interesting to see his demeanor change over the time period, but I don't expect any reflection on this from Vito
Also interesting is going back to the big fight episode after Vito was kicked out of studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK2QwsJLGzw
Also lots of contradictions and 'Vito vs Vito's' in here where he has rewritten history since then. The biggest being him talking about he doesn't know where this narrative came of having a thin skin - after banning people for making pig jokes about him and admitting they got to him originally