Since I Am Bored, If You Could Rewrite Your Least Favorite Ship From Hb And Hh, What Would Be Change?

constantly thinking about that post that was like “if Lance and Gwaine had gotten more screen time together Gwaine would’ve had an intense one sided rivalry with him” because i think it would be so funny

MY REVIEW OF HAZBIN HOTEL EP 1!

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First thing off, I hate how the show just expects you to watch the pilot. Like the show feels like it made for viv fans who have been here from day one. Which is absolutely fine!

The thing is, the newer fans shouldn't have to feel stressed or overwhelmed trying to find out why episode 1 of hazbin Hotel didn't feel like episode 1! For example, if i got a doller for the number of people I saw post about the confusion they were feeling, I would probably be a millionaire.

So sadly, hazbin just feels like a show you have to do homework before watching it to find out what you are watching.

Okay, sorry for my rant 😅

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Summary of the episode:

Charlie gets a call from her dad to attend a meeting with the angels in his place. She does so, and we get to meet the two antagonists of the season, Adam and Lute. In the second plot of the episode, we follow Vaggie as she tries to flim a commercial of the hotel to surprise Charlie with.

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My issues with the episode short formed:

● Bad pacing

● some thing should've been kept secret for another episode to explore it further

● And it being episode 1, but instead, it was treated as episode 2 because the writers expected you to watch the pilot

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My issues with the episode long formed:

● the episode was doing too much for a 20-minute episode. It felt like it was trying to keep itself in a standard 2 plot episode but the writers got super excited for plot A (charlie part) that they try to speed up plot B (vaggie and the hotel crew part) to get back to plot A as soon as possible or they didn't understand how to go about the two parts without it becoming to boring for the fans watching.

● Some things should have been kept a secret. And which I mean, some of the things we introduced in episode 1 should've had it own episodes dedicated for that plot.

I would have it that charlie enters the meeting doors. We never see her again until the end of the episode. The rest of the episode just focuses on vaggie, the hotel, and the disaster they are causing to make the commercial. Then, after the last couple minutes of the episode have charlie walked in defeat and crash. Vaggie asks what is wrong and tries to comfort charlie, but Charlie's stays quiet on what happened during the meeting and instead goes to her room. And vaggie left there defeated as she held the camera that has the commercial everyone worked together to make.

● as I said in the beginning, this show is quite all over the place. For you truly know what is going on, you have to go on youtube, watch the pilot, then go back to Prime and watch the rest of the episodes.

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music for this episode:

I loved hell was forever! Like, I genuinely loved it so much!!!!!! If I choose a song to listen to again for the first time from Hazbin Hotel, I would choose hell was forever!

Happy day in hell, I'm sorry, but the song was okay. I didn't enjoy it that much, and if I were to rate the songs. This song would probably be one of the lasts. It just something about the song that just felt off about it.

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Overall, I give this episode a 5.4/10! I would love what else people have to say as well!

Says the woman who would rather post about going to Broadway shows, karaoke, going to see movies multiple times, traveling abroad, and going out to eat than donate to charities or give to the more unfortunate. Fucking hypocrite.

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Day 2: Knights in Shining Armour

Merwaine! Mer-what? MerWAINE! Mer-who? 

OR: The moment Merlin / Sir Gwaine became Canon

So  just in case you didn’t know, and no I won’t ask any questions… out loud  BBC Merlin takes place in the Middle Ages. Which is all fun until you end up participating in a jousting tournament or a melee by accident and there’s people running around who have magically sharpened swords! 

I know. Wrong place, wrong time kind of situation. Kind of sort of maybe just a little awkward. Unless you end up going on purpose! 

Like Gwaine did in the fourth episode of Season 3, when he returned to Camelot, after having been banished by Uther Douchedragon because he supposedly attacked a knight. Oops.

Technically he did attack a knight, since only the audience knew the man was actually a bandit under a magical disguise at the time, but that’s not really the point here…

Right, so back to the melee.

Or wait. Before that we might want to go back to the beginning of the episode for a minute, just to remind ourselves that Gwaine woke up naked in Merlin’s bed got taken to Camelot to get his wounds treated. You know, the wound on his leg which required Merlin to… take the man’s shirt off…?!

Okay now definitely back to the melee!  Gwaine returns to go fight and stand by Arthur’s side when he unknowingly faces the Extra Pointy Magic Blades™.   The episode was called Gwaine, our boy really didn’t have a choice but go back and save the day, did he?

For those of you who know me… I’ve got a thing for Knightly Favours (aka the ribbons Knights tie around their arms to show the world who they’re fighting for, which is also a promise to come back home to their beloved and return the favour to them as soon as the battle is over)

So imagine my surprise when Gwaine came back to fight in the melee. AND was wearing a Knightly favour… And not just any Knightly Favour. He wore a strip of white bandage cloth around his left arm! The bandage Merlin used to care for his wounds. And he wore it for the whole world to see, right then and there on the melee field. 

To show who he was fighting for. 

And to promise Merlin he’d come back one day. 

In conclusion. Merwaine was canon. Change. My. Mind. 

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merleon as the round table parents

it started on a hunting trip, gwaine was teasing mordred and took his stuff and hid it. merlin told him very sternly to give it back and mordred said "thanks dad"

from then on they all started calling merlin dad

with leon it came slower and from lancelot. lance was struggling with his relationship with gwen and he confided in leon

leon helped him work through it and when lance left he clapped leon on the shoulder and said "thanks pops"

of course the others all found out about it and started calling him pops

neither of them fits into "mom" or "dad" categories but they each have a role

the kids go to leon when they need solid advice, when they feel like they cant handle something alone and they need a real answer to a problem

they go to merlin when theyre hurt (physically or mentally) and he helps heal them. they also go to him when they need someone to vent to and not get a real answer from, merlin is more than happy to bitch with someone and he'll hold your grudges for you

when on hunting trips, leon makes sure they have food and merlin prepares it and makes sure everyone gets their share

theyre equally protective of the kids and they'll work together to move heaven and earth for them

when they dont want to deal with the knights they try and pawn them off on each other. they ask merlin for advice and he says "oof that sounds like one for pops"

gwaine gets mad at arthur and goes to leon, who tries to give him advice, gwaine gets even more upset and leon calls for merlin because he cant handle the big shows of emotion

the kids all fight to be the favorite. arthur tells the others he has to be the favorite because he's king, leon grounds him for holding his station above the others heads

merlin's favorite changes based on how much trouble they've cause him

leon's changes based on how well they did in training

raising the knights eventually gets merleon together.

To whoever first wrote that Merlin is only clumsy because he has to make a conscious effort and always invest a lot of energy to not allowing his magic to be instinctive : Thank you! That concept always lives in my mind for free

please get a lock on that damn door

Typical trope of the woman being better at archery than the man but the woman is Merlin and the man is Arthur (and the Knights).

It’s probably a bet or Gwaine trying to flirt with Merlin, or maybe Leon worries about his safety to the point he makes him, but one of the Knights offer to teach Merlin to shoot. They figure he’ll be safe as you normally need some distance to shoot and doesn’t require too much strength. (in the instance of Knights, they tend to not realise that a bow string is very taught and hard to pull if you want to shoot well as they are already sturdy in muscle.)

Gwaine goes to hold onto Merlin’s me show him a proper form but Merlin just scoffs and shoos him away.

Arthur finds it hilarious that Merlin is so confident as he thinks it will be funny to watch him embarrass himself, until he watched Merlin pull the bow with more ease than even the most trained archer.

Cue them watching Merlin shoot every target with as close to perfection as one can get (without controlling the wind).

Putting the bow down and blushing despite his prideful grin, Merlin just shrugs at them as if he didn’t just blow all their minds, “We had survive somehow in the village.”

Gwaine cackles with glee while Leon debates for illy picking up Arthur’s jaw.

Ive seen arguments about this line like “oh but we don’t know if her husband actually cheated or not soooo yeah”

and that’s true we have no idea because it’s not confirmed, however, I genuinely believe he did cheat. And I think this because the gay couple is super paralleled with Stolas and blizt

I don’t think the couple exist as fleshed out characters, I think they exist as a writing device to mirror stolas’ situation, otherwise what’s the point of them? (Especially because the family is animated exactly like blizts fantasy too)

another thing is blizt doesnt even ask her “how do you know if your husband cheated or not?” He immediately just defends cheating and doesn’t try to figure out the situation, because this scene isn’t fleshed out characters talking to each other and learning about each other, it’s just a weird character insight on blizt

just mentioning this because if this is correct then this lady has every right to be mad at her husband and the show sucks for just portraying her as a b**ch (im open to believe that im wrong though, I just think it’s weird to write a parallel situation but for the situations to end up being completely different to each other)

Gwaine in a large amount of Arthurian myths: I'm a serious knight and, while I do screw up occasionally, I try my best, which is the main thing.

Gwaine in Merlin: *swishing his gorgeous hair out of his eyes and revealing half his man-cleavage whilst he grins flirtily at Merlin* I'm bisexual, I'm Irish and I hate the monarchy; fancy a kiss?-