The episode progressed well in the arc of Bob building up the urge to confront Teddy about his superstitions. When he finally does, he highlights issues of leaned helplessness that go along with abdicating personal responsibility for your decisions.
You are able to change things, but not when you tell yourself that your life is controlled by outside forces and that you depend on the universe's approval.
Then the writing takes the valuable lesson that was barely beginning to crystallize out back and shoots it behind the barn by displacing it with a betrayal of what Bob said about his world view because he saw a seal.
I'm very disappointed that good points were sacrificed for... a vague air of magic that may feel comforting while further enslaving people to feeling like they have less agency and depend on mysticism?
I don't expect hard-hitting exposés in Bob's Burgers, but they went out of their way to take back something good they could have solidified, instead putting reason and responsibility back on the same level as superstition, right next to the healing crystals.
You are able to change things, but not when you tell yourself that your life is controlled by outside forces and that you depend on the universe's approval.
Then the writing takes the valuable lesson that was barely beginning to crystallize out back and shoots it behind the barn by displacing it with a betrayal of what Bob said about his world view because he saw a seal.
I'm very disappointed that good points were sacrificed for... a vague air of magic that may feel comforting while further enslaving people to feeling like they have less agency and depend on mysticism?
I don't expect hard-hitting exposés in Bob's Burgers, but they went out of their way to take back something good they could have solidified, instead putting reason and responsibility back on the same level as superstition, right next to the healing crystals.