What compels you people to keep watching this? Every time I check this thread it's like watching people stab themselves with forks and complain about how sharp it is. Is there something that makes it worth it?
Mild PL but the "gentler take on the Moxxie brain damage" art I posted that was rightly mocked a while ago finally made me curious enough to check out HB after all this time. I just wanted to know more about the characters, especially Moxxie and Millie.
I don't know whether to laugh or feel sad?
Sunk Cost Fallacy for me, plus the show genuinely used to be good.
Having a loved one being reduced to the mental equivalent babbling toddler isn't something you can make cute or touching, especially if it's a spouse. You are now not only deprived of someone you love dearly, but you're now anchored to a shambling parody of them. Good thing Moxxie wasn't the sole breadwinner!
With how people view mentally retarded people as kids who can't consent. How long will people jump to Pedophilla.
Honestly, it’s like having a lens to view everything wrong in modern story telling with a trifecta (bad morally, thematically, and technically). It’s like a slow motion train wreck. You know you shouldn’t be seeing it, let alone pay attention to it, in fact there have been other train wrecks that you’ve haven’t turned your head towards, but this particular train wreck is so fascinating, so much collateral damage is happening, things are bending in such a way and parts are flying so far into the distance, that you can’t look away.
This insinuates that I hate talking about the show and I personally don't, I like talking and discussing it, I just don't think it's particularly well made.
I got sucked into the fandom in 2019, when things were still very exciting as this was one of the first major indie animation productions to rack up millions of views. The falloff from its initial potential was brutal. Yeah it's pretty much sunk cost fallacy at this point. That and I kinda like watching/reading critiques of it so I can get better at my own writing. The animation is very pretty and I actually kind of like Viv's style (though a lot of the character designs do suck) so it isn't too hard for me to keep watching both shows.
I think I understand what you mean. I've only seen the Chaz episode, and I remarked at the time how he's a worse character than I thought was possible to write—to the point where my brain can only interpret him as a sort of metanarrative angel of merciful death. He's like a gentle voice saying, "it's ok, you can stop watching now: you're free."
Pilot Charlie being superior once again.
It's still red but not reddish enough to be blend in with the other characters, also shows that despite living in hell, she's not as evil as the rest of the cast.
I'm not an graphic designer, and yet I somehow know this shit.
Even the revamped design for the ADDICT music video is better than what we got in the actual show itself.
One my professors taught us this: if you want to make good media you can't just engage with the good shit; you also have to take the bad shit as well. And you also have to figure what makes something good and what makes something bad. That way you know what to do to make a good product, and what easy mistakes are made that you should avoid.
October 29th.
Though let's be real, we know the nutjobs will get pissy that a homophobic character is homophobic
FUCKING SAME. Something I never get from those Hatedom idiots is how focus they are on Stolas being awful when Blitzo is way way WAY worse.
Simple. The word "retarded" was used in the pilot and people got upset over that. So now they have to make sure they don't go over the line of being too offensive in their show set in fucking Hell. That's why Blitzø almost called someone a retard in season 2 but stopped himself and instead said "really can't say that anymore". It's a reference to the backlash that they received from using the word in the pilot. They do want to say the word, but know they can't; otherwise Viv will get canceled.
Again, another simple answer. It's because Blitzø will get called out for being an awful person, while Stolas never does. And there's also the fact that Blitzø gets shit on for...rejecting Stolas. That was the point for the entire episode of Apology Tour. Not for Blitzø to learn how he should treats others better; but for him to learn how to treat Stolas better. The guy that basically treated him pretty much like a sex toy for the majority of their time together.
It's because the show is more aware of Blitzo being an asshole while Stolas is never called out for any of his shitty actions yet the show wants to treat him as this pure misunderstood guy. When anyone has a problem with him, it's always their fault whether it be Blitzo or Octavia despite the fact that Stolas is the one in the wrong.
