Um, So, I’ve Spent Like A Week Or Two Talking To A Few People Of The Beetlejuice Fandom And Discussed

I drew Batman for Batman day(I think it’s still today;;))

Lydia Deetz with Different Hairstyles

(I Tried))

Still so odd to see Beetlejuice and Lydia lying in bed together like this but OHHH HOW THANKFUL I AM

Winona Ryder & Michael Keaton BTS of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

This is very old pic and I never got to finish it now but I still wanna show it.

Wait, do you ship Beetlejuice and Lydia?? Cause you made a Valentine's post about them. Lydia is a minor and Beetlejuice is sooooooo old.

Cool my first Asked and yes I do. I find their pairing cute and chaotic also they are fictional characters. As long no REAL danger ACTUALLY occurs to anyone then I see no real problem with it, I’m not completely a monster. Also, I respect that you find them cute or cool as being just friends, I do too fam.

I still can’t get over just how great he looks in the movie.

MICHAEL KEATON as BEETLEJUICE Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) dir. Tim Burton

This is adorable

So, there was Toons on tap session in 2013 with invited animator who work(ed) at Nelvana (Charlie Bonifacio)

This is a drawing made by the animator on facebook

“Are you excited about Beetlejuice 2?”

OK.  I said this a long time ago on my now-dead Beej/Lyds blog, but the post’s gone, so I’ll say it here.

If the Beetlejuice sequel were a real thing it would be covered like CRAZY by the legit entertainment media.

There would be interviews and segments in/on:

Hollywood Reporter Deadline Variety People Entertainment Tonight Rolling Stone US Weekly And these outlets owned by Warner Brothers, who owns the rights to Beetlejuice: CNN HBO

At most a couple outlets have said there’s “talk” about the sequel “according to sources.”

I’ve worked in media.  “Sources” can mean anything from a Key Grip to some studio intern who thought he overheard something while in line at Tail O’ the Pup.

When sources aren’t named it means the news hasn’t been confirmed by anyone important.

IF the sequel were real, the news would be fucking everywhere.  Warner Brothers would be promoting it the moment Tim Burton and Michael Keaton’s signatures were dry on their contracts.  It would be the biggest movie news of the last 30 years.

But that hasn’t happened.

Until it happens it’s all rumors.  Fuck IMDB.  IMDB is not a reliable source.  No one has confirmed the movie has been Green-lit.

Key word: “Green-lit.”  If it ain’t Green-lit it ain’t real.  Green-lit means Warner Brothers has said yes and producers have begun raising money and signing talent.

So just calm your asses down and find other things to occupy your time.  If Burton and Keaton actually are going to do this, you won’t be able to escape hearing about it.

THINGS I NOTICED WHILE WATCHING BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE AGAIN:

This is a very Beetlebabes-centric post, so if you don’t like the ship, please feel free to scroll away. <3

Beetlejuice cut Delores’ ring finger off, and while it was originally a fun joke in the first movie, there’s deep implications about that action when we look at it with the context of the second film. Beetlejuice attacked her after she betrayed him. Anyone would want to kill the person that poisoned them, but the fact that he took the time to find her finger and deliberately cut her ring finger off (and ONLY that finger) reflects how much that marriage meant to him. It also symbolizes that he’s effectively dissolving their marriage. He’s cut off the physical representation of their love and taken the ring, which he tries to give to Lydia hundreds of years later. He held onto that ring for centuries in hopes of finding someone he deemed worthy of it.

He calls his dynamic with Lydia a long-distance relationship, which could’ve been a throwaway joke if not for the fact that when he clearly notices how hot Janet is, he never talks to her or gropes her like he did with Barbara prior to meeting Lydia. Keaton said BJ wouldn’t be politically correct, so this isn’t to reflect the current political climate, but rather to reflect BJ’s motivations.

Beetlejuice was jobless at the start of the first movie, and in thirty years he’s built a company for his bio-exorcisms. Coupled with the picture of Lydia on his desk, it’s possible he did this to impress her. After all, she’s famous and rich now. BJ’s gotta step it up, y’know?

Probably overheard the convo between Lydia and Rory and deliberately bugged her at that time, because if he can possess the phone or whatever, he can probably use it to eavesdrop. This can be further supported by how he got rid of the influencers but kept the people that mattered to Lydia present—Delia and Astrid.

We can also assume he overheard the conversation where Lydia said that Rory loves her and that has to be enough because of the panning to a gravestone. BJ has a special fascination with graveyards, even tiny model ones. If he did overhear them, it explains why he used the truth serum on Rory. He’s testing him. He wants to see if this guy actually loves Lydia or if he’s using her, and then he gives Lydia the means to exact revenge on Rory rather than doing anything himself.

Lydia spends half the movie being strong -armed into a marriage with Rory, and in a way, it’s reminiscent of the first movie’s marriage attempt. Rory dangles their “love” in front of her like a carrot, and if she doesn’t want to be alone, she has to accept his manipulation and agree to get married. Yet she immediately offers it to Beetlejuice, only sounding annoyed rather than terrified. And the movie spends a lot of time proving that BJ has sincere motives this time around, whereas Rory doesn’t. It pushes an underlying message that if one of these guys is going to be a better choice, it’ll be BJ.

Despite Lydia having a tendency to back out of their deals, he still helps her first. He prioritizes saving Astrid even before finding his “runaway bride” again.

Casually calls Lydia the love of his life, looks so sincere when he says he’ll make her so happy. Clearly spent those 30 years planning that dream-dance sequence.

He doesn’t seem to care that Lydia’s sending him away. That coupled with the end scene illustrates how confident he is this time around. Lydia is still stuck with him, and even if he didn’t get her this time, he will eventually. But he also knows how spooked she is by marriage after being a snoop, so it’s possible that he’s just taking it slow on purpose.

In conclusion: Beetlejuice genuinely does want to be with Lydia and care about her. His feelings have evolved beyond permanent residence in the mortal world. If anything, if he still wants that, it’s so he can be by her side.