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Originally Posted by LaBlooGirl
Can anyone explain to me their theories on this? Why does Bloo seem to have issues with Mac, especially on an authority level, where he thinks Mac is always trying to be "higher" than him (which he's not!!). I don't get it, because everyone knows Mac cares about Bloo ( or why would he be seeing him every day?) and yet Bloo feels he has to constantly prove himself around Mac all the time.
And yet, confusingly enough, when it comes down to it, he'll sometimes finally cooperate and everything ends well.
Hmmm......
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My personal feeling is that, on top of the brother/brother and best friend relationship the two have, there's also a father (Mac)/son (Bloo) relationship here which, despite his young age, you could say Bloo is, in a way, going through his "rebellious teenage years". The way I see it, since Mac acts like a father figure, Bloo will treat Mac, at times, like a father figure, which tends to be the same way he treats any authority figure: not necessarily disrespectful, but genuinely uncaring and unconcerned. However, like any son wants to prove himself to his father, so does Bloo want to prove himself to Mac, which includes going to desperate extremes occasionally.
Like you said, though, he'll eventually cooperate instead of trying to prove himself, and to a degree I think he's occasionally hurt by it, as it makes it seem like he can't be responsible enough for Mac. See, I still think that Bloo is a bit hurt after having been given up, and that maybe somewhere in the back of his li'l Bloo mind, he's afraid Mac will just eventually up and leave him. His intention, then, would be to try and keep Mac with him as long as possible, the best way to do this being to prove that he's worth coming to see.
HURRAY FOR OVERANALYSIS!!!
