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eltingpril- day two: the main four in their ren faire attire

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Seriously though. I hate this "we must reject ii" ass ending sm.

y'know i think that the part that fucks up ii as a whole is to know that none of the characters even had a choice to be the way they are, and how mephone4 never found people who actually loved him, and how cobs ended up being right. like the whole point of ii wasn't the show or the contestants. ii was a show about love, connection, moving on and growing as people. the whole appeal of it was that every character had accountability for the way they are, and how they feel like genuine people too, and how invested you'd get on everything they went through. the whole appeal of it was how human the characters felt, how complex they are, how they learn and how they grow.

so learning that they didn't even have a chance to choose who they are or how they'd act feels extremely hollow and empty. it feels like the worst type of closure you can ever give to characters. it feels like it was never meant to be taken that seriously and that ruins it. so many arcs go around accountability and your own actions. nickel had a whole breakdown over the idea that balloon was only friends with him because of the luck, but are you really just telling me that oh. that was going to happen anyway. literally anything that made ii appealing was stripped away from it.

are you really telling me that Mephone4, the guy who just wanted closure and love, to find people who saw him as a human, ended up creating all of them? And they were all programmed to act on a certain way? They weren't even like, vessels that got their own souls on their own. Just. Straight up made them without knowing. That he never found people who actually loved him and allowed him to grow? That he just made them up? And you're treating him as a kid that didn't know any better? When he is an abuse victim that was the product of a war? Putting him through pain he didn't even want?

Giving the reason to the abuser? To Cobs?

It doesn't matter if we get an ACT 3 or whatever. Because, really. What's left to do there. Everything was pointless. A show that was about love and connections got assasinated from the thing that representated it the most. Sure they could get them back, give them a "happy ending". But so many characters were off in Act 2. So many things that go against pre-established ones happen. Mephone4 wrote how they'd act and everything. What's the point.

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They totally leaned way too hard on the framing of their incredibly complex and loving relationship with literally so many beats that has subliminally been this underlying cornerstone of the whole series since as early as season 4-5 as this "totally definitetly more on the toxic side + is totally unchangeable and unfixable" which isn't entirely deniable but its tone feels way more antagonistic than necesary

obviously the tragedy and unhealthiness in their relationship is their cycle of self-sacrifice for the other + undervaluing themselves, but that love and that compatibility was still there! It majorly ignored how mutual the incredibly long chain of both simon and betty spending ages trying to see/save the other, and I'm glad that betty's perspective is elaborated on slightly (again the last episodes had really rushed pacing and didn't take advantage of all of its incredibly unique cast, concepts, settings and universe, etc) but it overviewed everything they had together and created this really tone-deaf take that simon didn't appreciate her as much as he should as if he hasn't been spending next-to-forever grieving over all of her sacrifice and how much he knows and loves her. Their relationship is wonderful and complex and has so much depth, and I'm worried about the kind of misinterpretations of them and their characters that could stem from this ending.

Also, it was probably intentional, but it also just felt incredibly anticlimatic, especially compared to the A-plot in fionna's world. This isn't like when ships don't get together in other media either, after all of this series focusing on how this specific relationship between these two subliminally being the key defining factor to the entire universe existing the way it did, they just break up so easily without so much as a single struggle or tears or anything? and then they're just fine afterwards so easily never seeing each other again despite the love that shaped and impacted and rewrote the entire planes of existence they lived in. You're going to tell me there's literally no way in this magical multiverse with curses and dieties and paradoxes and everything imaginable that there is no way they can be safe and happy together. that's what's impossible? My tone's really salty but the buildup vs the execution is unbelievable. that doesn't feel like well-written tragedy, more like a climax that wasn't really thought through fully. I thought I was satisfied with the ending initially, and while it feels alright on the surface, actually thinking about it for more than five minutes really has me feeling dissapointed. They deserved so much more and so much better.

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eltingpril day 28- touching grass

i think theres a lot to be said about the queer community online and the echo chambers that are created within it, and i think the fact that "bullying straight people for being straight is in fact a dick move" is a hot take really says more than anything else