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I caught an episode of the original on IFC the other night. Really liked what I saw. Should I start with the original or the American version?
I started with the originals and the American version just felt weird to me at first. I'm not saying it's not as good. It just had to grow on me. It's a matter of preference. The Australian version is alot more dry humor and it feels as if they aren't trying so hard to create something great. It just flows better.
The whole first season is on the FX site too. During the season, there was about a two-week turnaround before new episodes went up, but they're all there now. vod.fxnetworks.com/watch/wilfred
I don't know how many people are caught up, but at this point in the thread everyone has been linked up with the opportunity to catch up.
I think now might be a good time to start discussing without fear of spoiling. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell is going on by the end of season one... can we start to discuss this if we consider this post the entrance to the Spoiler Alert zone, or perhaps include "Spoiler Alert" in posts about it?
My friend Phil turned me on to this show. I hadn't heard of it, but he was excited for it and made me watch the premiere. That's how I got hooked.
When I caught up on the end of this season, I checked in with him to see whether he'd done the same. He said no, but asked how long it had taken me to see the Calvin & Hobbes parallel. I hadn't thought of it like that. I did note that it was coming from someone who hadn't seen Bruce or the episode with Ryan's mother.
I hadn't thought of the Calvin and Hobbes comparison either but that really explains it well, I agree we need to get a mod to throw a WARNING SPOLIERS on the title so we can start digging in to this
I'm still trying to figure out what happened at the end of season one to look forward to season two.
I still want to know who the hell Bruce is. I want to know why Ryan's the only one who can see him. It's not as if Bruce is an animal he's seeing in human form, because there's no underlying animal seen by everyone else instead.
Something else which has me wondering... what did Wilfred mean near the end of the season when he told Ryan that the pills he took in the first episode worked? I somehow doubt that's a Sixth Sense situation, because Ryan's obviously interacting with live people in the series.
Another thing that still has me wondering about is when Ryan's mother gets dropped off at the asylum again, and Carla from Cheers in a catsuit is welcoming her back. That makes me think it might not involve those pills from the first episode at all...
Ah... that being a Lost joke would explain why I don't get it.
As for his mother and Mittens the cat, I think it could something more than a non sequitur. This show is premised on a slightly different reality than ours, so stuff like this invites attention. Not everyone has the same anthropomorphic view of animals, so it's noteworthy when it happens. Thus far, it's just been Ryan, his mother and (possibly?) Bruce. I rewatched the episode with Ryan's mother after I finished up the season. One thing worth noting was that Mittens was seen in cat form before Mom left the asylum and took human form upon her return. I can see a connection between the anthropomorphizing and madness, but I don't think that's a silver bullet in explaining everything that's going on.
Speaking of which... what's going on with the basement? It took me a while to realize it, being (like Jenna) from Wisconsin... but isn't it true that residences in coastal areas are less likely to have basements? This is taking place in California, close enough to get to the beach? It took me a while to come around to thinking about it like that, coming from a place where basements are the norm. Wilfred got into an accident and lost his memory, and when Ryan went home looking for the will he wound up opening a closet... there's gotta be something subconscious going on with that. Right?
just watched the first few episodes. really liking it but i hope they don't try to drag this out for more than just a few seasons. i mean you can really only learn so many life lessons from a talking dog.
About 4-5 episodes in, I had a conversation about that myself with the friend who insisted we watch the premiere and turned me on to the show. Closer to the end of the season, we both concluded sticking to it was worth it.
I know I'm excited for season two, as a number of the rest of you seem to be. I'm just trying to make sense of WTF went down in season one still...
so yeah i'm sure the basement doesn't exist. early on in the season, i don't remember which episode, Ryan mentions to Kristin being in the basement with Wilfred and Kristin replies something like "You have a basement?" At the time i thought it was meant to just be a joke on how Kristin is just oblivious to Ryan's life. but in the last episode you see him go through his closet door to the basement. and in the last minute he tried to go down to get the will and it was just a closet. throughout the season you never see anyone in the basement but Ryan and Wilfred... and bear.
Yeah, I thought about that too. All along I just thought it was normal, because Ryan lives alone and spends his days with Wilfred anyway. It didn't seem too out of the ordinary until it didn't exist.
Why does the basement cease to exist when something happens to Wilfred? Why is its existence tied to Wilfred's state of mind instead of Ryan's?
I would like to pose an open-ended question to everyone who's seen this through to the end: What, exactly, is Wilfred?
Yeah, I thought about that too. All along I just thought it was normal, because Ryan lives alone and spends his days with Wilfred anyway. It didn't seem too out of the ordinary until it didn't exist.
Why does the basement cease to exist when something happens to Wilfred? Why is its existence tied to Wilfred's state of mind instead of Ryan's?
I would like to pose an open-ended question to everyone who's seen this through to the end: What, exactly, is Wilfred?
I don't think they are going in same direction as the original I kind of think maybe the haitian nurse was right and he is some kind of Demon.
I've been thinking back to that episode trying to figure things out too. Partly because of the late-season mention of dogs being seen as a way to communicate with the dead, and there was plenty of death in that episode. Also because of that wild-eyed speech Wilfred gave on that rooftop where he seemingly conducted lightning strikes.
What's maddening is that I have so many damn theories. I'm starting to think it's less about Ryan's mental (in)stability than Wilfred's... "Who are you? What are you? Why are you?" quality.
I've been thinking back to that episode trying to figure things out too. Partly because of the late-season mention of dogs being seen as a way to communicate with the dead, and there was plenty of death in that episode. Also because of that wild-eyed speech Wilfred gave on that rooftop where he seemingly conducted lightning strikes.
What's maddening is that I have so many damn theories. I'm starting to think it's less about Ryan's mental (in)stability than Wilfred's... "Who are you? What are you? Why are you?" quality.
The biggest mythology of Wilfred clues I can think of
i have a theory that there are two Wilfreds or two forms of Wilfred.
there is Wilfred the dog. He appears when the actual dog is really there and everyone else can see him. he acts like a dog. fetching balls, chasing laser pointers, catching bubbles.
then there is Wilfred the subconscious. the Wilfred in the basement. the one that can do people things that kinda puzzle me as to how a person can do it. like hit a bong. walk around in a shoe store putting shoes on cafeteria trays. i think this is the part that is really just Ryan's head. take bruce for example. Bruce probably isnt real just something Ryan created to explore the doubt he had of Wilfred's loyalty. The scene in the meadow with Wilfred and Bruce probably just happened in Ryan's subconcious like the basement. i theorize that later in the series there will be a major plot twist that will be Ryan's realization of these two forms.
as seen in the last episode there is obviously a dark side to Ryan and i think the subconscious Wilfred is a personification of that dark side. Ryan just needed a vessel to channel that personality which is the dog.
tried to get that to make sense. i guess a simpler way of saying it is some scenes we actually have the literal concrete Wilfred the dog. and some scenes we have just Ryan exploring an unreal hallucinated scene of his darker personality?
