It's even worse when you think about how those tapes work. They transport you into the tape's world when you watch it, with you being motionless in the real world. So... if he's crying like this while watching this, you can only imagine what his real reaction was in the tape world... likely a breakdown.
The part that’s wild for me is that instead of him going “my friend was so scared that I’d hurt this person that she had to hide it from me” and having that be what hurt him, he went “she lied to me and betrayed me” Like, the reasoning went totally over his head. At first I thought his tears were like a wake up call of “wow I’m hurting the people around me” but it wasn’t at all
She was literally the one that feed him the lie about denizens, and basically raised him to be what he is. Granted she didn't know the truth, but that's why if you aren't sure about something you should shut your mouth.
@@SM-cv8sv Being raised racist doesn't absolve you from the abuse that you contributed to the system. Simon was scared and hurt by denizens, but he saw how Tuba could help the group and how much Hazel cared for Tuba and still wheeled Tuba before they got to their destination. His delusion of being a saviour made him neglect basic empathy for Hazel as she grieved for Tuba, and even now his only reaction was how this affected him, not how it Grace or Hazel. He benefited from the system of oppression that even the inventor saw the flaws of, and he refused to change. Remember that both Tuba and Grace saved Simon, but he still refused to believe that he was wrong or that he should change. He actively thought up a new way to dehumanize Grace. He knew the truth and he did not want it.
@@tommydoez True. Though Simon had an extra reason, he was abandoned by a denizen of the train right before meeting Grace and was still in a vulnerable position when she found him. So when Grace started the lies, it made sense to him as he experienced it firsthand. So it was easy for him to believe it. But Book 3 shatters his mentality showing the denizens are just as much like humans, they can be good or bad, and they have qualities and flaws like people. Since he spent the last 8 years believing lies that made sense to what happened to him back to before he met Grace, he can't accept it and double down on his behavior instead, because accepting the truth would mean he would be even worse than the denizens that he loathes, so he rejects all attempts at becoming better and becomes worse instead, and lose his sanity and life trying to stay in the lies that have been carrying him since then.
@@hayleyyeager8008 I do agree. The show does a brilliant job of making Simon very sympathetic while still making you root against him. He wasn’t a bad person at heart because he believes that raising numbers is the way of the train; he was a scared, confused kid. However his refusal to change when he had the chance to got him in the end. Throughout the book, Simon had more chances than he deserved to redeem himself, way more than Grace did, even after he killed Tuba, yet his fixed mindset and inability to face facts led him down a path to his own self destruction. Simon, in my opinion, is not just the perfect antagonist for Book 3, but the best antagonist of Infinity Train PERIOD.
@@thesegastarshow4210 One: But once these two arrive at their seat, it is up to them to sort things out. Amelia: And if they don’t? One: Then they die here.
@@rickmartinez3268 you are in a forever train that gives you numbers in your hand and you just a block and mini beeds to spy on your friends mind without asking and find out your child friend is a denysin?
