So I had a few big takes from this. The first one is indeed, once the trolls stop and the Blue Arms subsides, we enter a tedious lull that's piss poor in comparison. He's boring without the trolls to poke him, a bit like seeing an elephant at the zoo compared to one at the circus. You need lights and acrobats to stimulate the elephant into a frenzied killing spree to get your money's worth.
Here, at the gay bar, we see the elephant in the savannah instead. Chris is enchanted by this world where he's ALMOST normal. I mean for fuck's sake, he even wins a raffle, and Chris knows in the real world he wins all the prizes. Hes happy. Well, he thinks he is, but the truth is that drag show is just a few more elephants at the circus, and they're trying to pretend it's Kenya. Even then, surrounded by drag artists, trannies, and people with more psychological issues than Batman on father's day, he's still the odd ball. Nobody wants to fuck him. Nobody wants to associate. Does anybody know why Chris stops attending these things? Is it because the China isn't at hand?
Another thought: I've only ever approached the Idea Guys saga from after the fact, and though I loathed them conning chris out of money, I'm wondering if I'll be as judgemental seeing it play out in chronological order.
The pronouns thing didn't bother me after a minute or two. I don't see it as white knighting, but just a choice of what direction to take things. But if Geno's willing to pretend that he is a she, he'll have to start calling Christian as Sonichu in 2020 because he's as much a pokemon as he is a woman.