Hal on Himself's audience films — "It’s still unclear whether it was…"
It’s still unclear whether it was the Eyeball-and-Sideshow thing or ‘The Medusa v….’ or The Joke that had metamorphosized into their late father’s later involvement with the hostilely anti-Real genre of ‘Found Drama,’ which was probably the historical zenith of self-consciously dumb stasis, but which audiences never actually even got to hate, for a-priori reasons.
Context
Hal's genealogy of Found Drama is pointedly uncertain where 078's narrator is precise: 078 names the sauna night with Lyle and tells us only Mario and Joelle know — so Hal's "still unclear," in the very scene where he's watching Mario's film, quietly measures his distance from his father's inner circle. Not a contradiction; the two accounts are cited as written and the gap is the information. "[M]etamorphosized" as written (see Flags).