Mar 04, 2026
I tried but the concept itself breaks verisimilitude to a degree that I don't think I could give real criticism to this
it's easy to read and it made me guffaw a couple of times but the more I think about it, the more easily the concept breaks apart. For example, if the idea is to have him be as doglike as possible, how would he even have a concept of self? The mirror scene made me think of dogs barking at their own reflection. Derrick's insanity could just be a character thing but since everything so far has been so silly it just felt like I was supposed to roll with it rather than think wtf is wrong with this dude, and to be honest, if EVERYTHING is silly, then I have a hard time being immersed, you know? Would the doctors actually release a guy after seeing him act like that? Without signing papers? And that's only the tip of the iceberg, I don't know. LIke I said, it's fun enough but I'm not biologically able to turn my brain enough for this.
Funnily enough what actually broke me wasn't a dog having enough of a concept of color to be able to name "green", but rather than dogs CAN see green. It was the (green) cherry on top and I just dissolved into the ether