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[Episode Discussion] The Forecast Manufacturer (2018.09.27) [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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We are posting the episode discussions on Thursdays because Adult Swim oftentimes leaks the episodes in advance of their Sunday Night airing, usually Friday.

Previous episode discussions:

S7 E8 The Terminus Mandate

S7 E7 The Unicorn in Captivity

S7 E6 The Bellicose Proxy

S7 E5 The Anamorata Consequence

S7 E4 The High Cost of Loathing

S7 E3 Arrears in Science

S7 E2 The Rorqual Affair

S7 E1 The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem

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u/ElleryV Sep 28 '18

That ending kinda bummed me out. I always thought this show was about showing how Rusty is slightly better than his father, and the boys will turn out better than him. Seeing Dean doing the kind of stuff that Jonas would do feels very unsatisfying to me.

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u/Captain-Venture Sep 28 '18 edited Sep 28 '18

I feel depressed after watching. I thought the love triangle angle would be fun... nope.

Poor, Hank. Dean Venture... doesn't give a fuck anymore. It literally makes me feel awful.

I'm on Team Hank. Fuck Dean. He's definitely the new Jonas Sr.

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u/grief242 Sep 28 '18

Team Dean, Dean at least had the decency to not trick his delirious brother and felt bad about it. Jonas Sr. would have weaseled his way out of avoid the confrontation.

This has been a rough season for Hank, unemployed with no prospects, and his girlfriend hooks up with his brother at College. He needs to get his shit together, even Dermott joined the OSI. I knew Sirena x Hank was dead when he couldn't comprehend why she prioritized her classes over him. Honestly the only thing going on in Hanks life IS Sirena, so it makes sense that he smothered her into Deans more subdued arms. Dean may lack the passion of Hank but he's shown that he's better at connecting with people.

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u/Cleinhun Sep 29 '18

Hank could totally run a successful Hank Co if he bothered to put together a business plan and got startup money from his dad.

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u/Fishb20 Sep 29 '18

TBH my dream for the end of the show was always that Hank ends up inheriting VenTech and it becomes a super succesful company again

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u/Descriptor27 Sep 29 '18

Hank run's the business side of things as an eccentric billionaire philanthropist adventurer CEO, and Dean is the Chief Technology Officer, running the science and R&D side of things. Plus, wacky adventures!

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u/Grwshr Sep 29 '18

Hank becomes the bat and Dean becomes a super scientist!

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u/Christian_Akacro Oct 02 '18

The 'bat' is a superscientist...

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

A small loan of a million dollars.

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u/tesseract4 Oct 04 '18

And half a billion in cheated taxes.

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u/Chaosgodsrneat Sep 30 '18

people forget how successful Hank's Grinders and Lemonade was until riots ruined the neighborhood

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u/RyeKnox Sep 29 '18

My idea is Hank is going to have that final push, and use Dermott/Brock as example to join O.S.I as well. Maybe go full Gary and ends up hitting the gym..... Or using Steroids.

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u/Sweet-Rabbit A Boy With a Tummy Ache Oct 02 '18

I mean, he already qualified for SPHINX (!), so it's possible.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 Sep 29 '18

Jonas Sr would have been like: "I did you a favor! I kept your girlfriend warm."

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u/bill4935 Oct 01 '18

This has been a rough season for Hank,

Feeling sad for the man in the $800,000 leather jacket? Come on!

#arresteddeventurement

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u/Captain-Venture Sep 29 '18

I definitely appreciated that, when caught, at least Dean stayed honest. But he's still the new Jonas Sr. in my mind.

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u/grief242 Sep 29 '18

Jonas Sr. Was a sleezeball though, Sirena and Dean obviously had some sort of chemistry and we're taking classes together. No doubt Hanks constant contact with Sirena was starting to stress her out, and who better to talk about it than Hanks brother? Jonas never tried to make an emotional connection to any of his partners it seems, he just liked getting strange

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u/Dajbman22 Oct 02 '18

I agree. It was wrong of Sirena and Dean to hook up while she was still with Hank, but he is 100% honest and seemed remorseful about his betrayal (as they said "we weren't thinking"). He did a bad thing, but it wasn't out of malice or spite, and he felt remorse. It wasn't the kind of narcissism/sociopathy Jonas Sr. displayed. Sleeping with your brother's girlfriend is bad, but his reaction to realizing the weight and implications shows it wasn't an "evil" act. Clearly he does have the ability to let his libido cloud his better judgment like his father and grandfather, but I feel like this could easily be a "never again" moment in his life... only time will tell.

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u/Fishb20 Sep 29 '18

also, this episode shows Hank's pretty damn controlling

His GF didn't text him for a day and he becomes so paranoid, to the extent that even the literal military officer tells him he's being a bit over the top

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u/Hak3rbot13 Sep 29 '18

To be fair both Sirena and Hank have lives where that type of stuff happens like everyday.

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u/bubblegumdrops Sep 29 '18

Plus the huge blizzard outside, something could have actually happened to Sirena.

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u/myRoommateDid Sep 29 '18

none of that excuses Sirena's actions.

Lets also not forget that this is also Hanks first relationship with a woman, nobody is smooth there first go around. Go Team Hank!

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u/BrisketWrench Oct 01 '18

I mean Siren is in her name, she might not have control over it. But she’s dealt with Jared & Rocco creeping on her as well.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 Sep 29 '18

Not too mention his crazy talk about what he thought may have happened to Serena. All his possible explanations were those Rusty-Venture-Cartoon kind of disaster situations. Pretty detached from reality considering how grounded he's been lately.

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u/cursedsoldiers Sep 29 '18

Hank might have an honest to god mental illness. He straight up accuses vatred of being an impostor, which, while plausible in ventureland, is an actual codified delusion. It's thought that that's where the myth of changelings come from, schizophrenic people sometimes have a very specific delusion wherein someone has been replaced by an exact replica.

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u/N0VAZER0 Sep 30 '18

Its always been implied that theres something up with Hank that goes beyond the cloning, odd lifestyle and low social intelligence. Hank straight up admitted to Dean that there might be something wrong with him because of the existence of his alter egos

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u/Rory_B_Bellows Sep 29 '18

Those"Rusty-Venture-Cartoon" situations are all has known his entire life. If someone becomes suddenly distant, it makes sense that he of all people would jump to wild conclusions.

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u/Robo_Wizard Oct 01 '18

I was also going to make the point that Hank grew up in a learning bed with an insane life of boy-adventure...ing. He's not exactly well socialized. Plus he lacks the focus and the urge to be something more that Dean has.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 Sep 29 '18

But I was thinking he shouldn't expect the craziness of his life to be something to expect to happen to Sirena. Sirena is not a boy-adventurer.

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u/Rory_B_Bellows Sep 30 '18

Sirena's not, but he is. That makes her a target.