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#Striker couldnt catch a fucking break from the horniness that shit was hilarious to me
pyrochickenpollo · 1 year
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So uh This post is gonna be a but long cause I'm gonna be putting my two cents on the latest Helluva Boss episode [Season 2 Episode 4 Western Energy] yes there will be spoilers
I may some things that you will like I may some things you might hate I don't really care because this is JUST MY OPINION on the episode and what I THOUGHT ABOUT IT. Feel free to put your thoughts too if you like but let's do this
So when I watched this episode I actually saw a 2 photos on Twitter and it kind of hyped me up because I saw Striker was making a comeback but when I finished it I was to say a little disappointed. The episode was not as bad like 'I'm gonna not watch it anymore' it was more of bland to me
Spoilers for the episode as a basic summary of it basically Stolas finally got jacked by Striker to be tortured and killed as ordered by Stella; Blitzo can't come to the rescue due to Luna needing a shot so M&M take to the streets to find Stolas and get him back. The episode ends with Blitzo figuring out that Stolas can be hurt, Stolas losing more confidence in their relationship, and some questions on where striker went
The animation for the episode was great, it was the writing and pacing of the episode that bothered me more of like they tried to put the le haha funny plot in with the serious tone of the first plot
The episode started at the richest cup cafe where Stolas, Stella and Andrealphus go to discuss the terms of their divorce and after a bit of bickering from Stolas and Stella;
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Striker comes into the store and using some kind of angelic rope captures Stolas and starts breaking it for his hideout, on their way Stolas calls Blitzo to tell him the situation Striker tells him he's good and this is where I started to have a problem with this episode
They put this episode as a Plot A and Plot B (A Plot is stolas being jacked and B Plot is Luna getting a shot) Now the thing that ruins the writing of the episode is that they just reintroduced Striker
Striker is a very different and very threatening villain in this show, in his first debut he was put on a hit to kill Stolas at the Harvest Moon Festival and had Moxxie not been in the house at the time yeah he would've gotten away with it
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Not only did he over power M&M he over powered Blitzo too
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He was the first imp we have seen that owns And can apparently get blessed or angelic weapons and was the first person Stella hired to kill Stolas based on these clues we can concluded that Striker has killed many royals before. He's hot he's very convincing and he knows it HE really is a main threat to the imps and Stolas aside from Stella
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But knowing this they way they went about his comeback made it seem like "yeah he's a threat but look at all these funny lines and whatnot" and I'm not talking about when he's torturing Stolas and Stolas making quirky comebacks I'm talking about his fight scene
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His fight with M&M was the best fucking thing I've seen since the scene where they fight the D.O.R.K.S. it was so smooth it was edge putting heck it even had Moxxie not being scared or jumbled instead using humor to cope
But it was always interrupted by scenes of Blitzo and the Doc chasing after Luna to give her a shot...
Like seriously outta place for a badass scene like this The Villian fighting against a more upgraded and less clumsy M&M who nearly Like I mean by a inch get out alive just by main character plot armor Millie literally almost gets her head chopped and Moxxie once again almost got choked out if it wasn't for Striker being thrown off by Moxxies comment and Millie using the statue after getting out of her axe Striker would have definitely won and probably took like one of Stolas limbs or something
But through the middle of it you get these pink pastel kind of le haha funny simmer down the tension scenes where it's not needed at all It ruins the vibes of the fight scene it was trying to give
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Don't get me wrong this was a cute moment to see Luna not treat blitzo like shit and him being soft and kind to her but I feel like the return of Striker deserved more of a serious "oh shit even as they evolve he's still a huge ass threat to have around" episode like the DORKS epi where it was more focused on Mox and Blitz being jacked and only for a brief moment going back to Millie and Luna getting closer to finding the boys
I will give credit where credit is due though the ending was loafly Blitzo thinking everything was honky dory just like every other time he's saved Stolas only to see that it's stolas getting dragged into the hospital
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We already know it's bad because we've kinda seen what Striker did but to see Millie of all people looking at Stolas body like that shows that they haven't seen anything this brutal and the person still be alive not just that but It he seems close to all of them as friends so her face says it all
And then m&m breaking the situation to Blitzo for him to realize that Striker actually fucked up Stolas bad and he can actually be hurt
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That was a reality check for him that YEAH He can lose Stolas, he isn't this untouchable higher being like he thought he was and even though he was hit with this reality check he still is too fucking stubborn to go to Stolas but that's just how he is
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And the end cap is Stolas remembering what Striker said that "no one was coming" that he's relationship with Blitzo is not good and his confidence in trying to fix his relationship with Blitzo is so shit rn that ending was perfect it was great
Like I said before this episode was kinda bland and not due to the animation or the voice actors who did fucking amazing I wanna say it was the direction and writing that kinda set it off a little made it like exaggerated and too weird for people to focus on
Like we have to be concerned for Stolas and M&M wondering oh shit are they gonna die just to be cut back to Hey look at how Luna acts like a dog and goes CraZy cause she's get a shot or haha look at the doc how he thought this was gonna be easy when or emotions or still on the A plot
That's why people didn't really like this episode that much the tone shift to what we were supposed to feel shifted so much it made the episode look like it was trying to hard to not be serious and show that hey we can make jokes look
I feel like the B plot should've finished at Blitzo threatening to kill the racist lady and then the next time we saw em should've been at the end it would've made the whole middle part good and seeing Blitzo smiling and walking out with Luna like he had a great time even more heartbreaking
I'm not sure if anything is happening with the writing team [based on some instagram and Twitter posts about how Vivienne isn't paying the writers and animators enough for what they putting down] or if someone else took the lead for this specific episode but yeah that what just my take on this epi and why I don't like it that much
Now let me say something else Specifically about Vivienne because I can't get into a tweet without seeing this shit like this flying all over the comments people are convinced that Viv isn't paying animators, va's,and basically anyone that works with her the amount that they should be paid which based on what some people who worked with her have said is false, like I've seen at least two people who've worked with her say that it's a load of bull and people shouldn't jump to conclusions for things they don't know so I don't think that's the issue here
But yeah that's my post on the newest helluva boss epi if you actually made it to this part Why??? This shit was long as he'll. But thank you and lemme know what you thought of the episode or if you even like the show
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