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That's a simplistic and not entirely accurate take. Season 6 had a bit of an en masse feel, but most of the deaths in the show aren't predictable. I'd argue 9 out of every 10 deaths on game of thrones are FAR more unpredictable than Sarah Lynn ODing in this episode. And as Sarah Lynn's death shows, a predictable death

I think we are actually mostly in agreement. I don't think either Emily or Bojack are wrong, and neither owes Todd an explanation. I'm just making a counter argument against people who are saying it was irresponsible for BoJack to sleep with Emily because of her history with Todd; BoJack didn't know Emily and Todd

I don't understand what you mean by that.
Neither BoJack or Emily are wrong. But if one is more blameless, it's BoJack, who didn't know the history between Emily and Todd and thus wouldn't know the impact that him and Emily sleeping together would have on Todd.

Without BoJack, Todd's Rock Opera was a steaming pile of crap. Regardless of setting up the audition, BoJack helped Todd tap into his potential.

Doesn't matter. If Todd is going to tell BoJack that feeling bad about his mistakes doesn't make them any better, then the good things he has done aren't suddenly less good because there is some self-interest in them.

Because he doesn't know about the history between Emily and Todd. All he knows is that they knew each other before, not that they used to date.
I don't think either BoJack or Emily were wrong. But if they are, then Emily is more in the wrong since she was the one with the information on her and Todd's relationship.

His behavior didn't cause Emily to leave. She felt guilty and thus left. That's out of his control. They slept together which is not really wrong or mean, and just because Emily felt bad about it and left doesn't make BoJack responsible.

Well in that case where is Todd's self-awareness? He blamed BoJack for his rock opera sabotage, but did he ever take responsibility for succumbing to playing the game when BoJack told him that if he played it he would never finish the opera? "You are all the things that are wrong with you"; that would apply to Todd in

I'd say that's an even bigger example of a time Todd does something shitty and its played for laughs without Todd's reputation taking any dents. Like with so many Todd schemes, his actions are portrayed as the result of stupidity and naïve innocence.
Mr. Peanutbutter gets called out on his part in it towards the end

Yes, but Todd's still being a hypocrite. If BoJack feeling bad about himself doesn't make his bad actions any less shitty, then the good things he does aren't any less "good" because there is self interest involved. Todd can't play it both ways.
And regardless of what the arrangement is like now, at the beginning it

Good point. But Todd has never thanked him at any point in time.
I don't necessarily think Todd has to thank BoJack there. But if he's not going to thank him, then the show needs to at least acknowledge Todd's hypocrisy as he tears into the narcissistic selfishness of a guy who he has free-loaded off of for years. His

I agree. And some of viewers see that Todd is not blameless. But I'm not convinced the showrunners think of Todd as anything other than the uniquely innocent heart of the show. Flawed characters are great, but only when the show presents them as flawed. The show presents Todd as innocent, and a lot people follow that

Symbolically, maybe.

I agree, but the timing seems off. Todd does act indignant about BoJack sleeping with Emily, and it leads right into the speech. Also, not once during the scene does Todd reflect on his own parasitic nature.
He says BoJack's self-pity doesn't make it any better when he does shitty things. In the same vein, BoJack being

Fights don't need to have winners and losers, but the show unequivocally framed the argument as Todd being right and BoJack being wrong.

If it's about BoJack generally being shitty, then this is a lame fuse then. This is about as harmless a thing as BoJack's done over the course of the show.

Sorry, but Todd comes off as sanctimonious here. His speech was great and something BoJack needed to hear, but not from Todd.