>>94628275It was the end of the first episode I think, where he gets into a sports car with a middle aged guy who shows him his dick, then Xavier's head explodes. This reviewer said that this was about ego, the sports car and aging guy being a symbol of a middle aged crisis (and self esteem issues in general) and the dick being a symbol about self worth/ego. Xavier's head exploding can be taken as meaning he can't handle seeing another guy with an ego, or that the manifestation of his own fragile and inflated ego blows his mind and is what stops him from thinking logically, or it can be taken as a metaphor for all this introspection just being mental/egotistic masturbation and Xavier's head bursting is just a dick joke.
Im aware of how utterly absurd all of that sounds, but honestly this show is absurd enough that I think they're all plausible. Of course, it could just be nonsense. Or all of the above. With this show you can never really say anything means anything. But at the very least, I think the imagery alone creates a moderately cohesive theme.
There's also an image of a red herring that continually pops up in the background in at least one episode. Whether that's a straight message or a fakeout for the sake of a joke is up to interpretation.
The creators of this show said they made it to "warn children about the dangers of philosophy" and it shows, if it actually has a message I think it's that you shouldn't let yourself go too far down the rabbit hole. In even talking about the symbolism and meaning of a fucking red herring image, this is obviously going completely against that, but you could argue that in recognizing the image you acknowledge the lesson. But you aren't really supposed to spend time thinking about it, so...
Yeah, it just goes in nonsensical circles, just like Xavier does in his head throughout the whole show. The ending of damnesia vu is basically all about this.
It's an insane fucking show, man. I love it.
