#it just irritates me when delancey apologists preach 'critical thought' and 'media literacy'

[pigeonwit]

the delanceys do not need to be secret good guys for you to find them three-dimensional. you do not need to ignore the terrible things they do to find them interesting. you do not need to pretend that all the things they uphold and believe are just... a facade that they went along with because they had no choice. disney prequels might have us believe that its better to pretend like all the cruelties a character commits werent actually that characters choice and that theyre secretly a misunderstood angel who didnt mean to do any wrong - but sometimes people become bad people. that doesnt mean the delanceys cant still be interesting characters to you, but (in my personal opinion) if you ignore the things that make the delanceys who they are, youre doing them and any potential intrigue their character and backstory holds a disservice. maybe im cold, but i'd always prefer a character be INTERESTING rather than sympathetic.

#the delanceys do not interest me at all. their purpose in the show is to be antagonists who inflict pain and conflict for the protagonists #but the background newsies 'purpose' in the show is to just be that. Background Newsies. and people still love to scrutinize them so #im not angry that people want to analyse them and im certainly not saying you cant do that. some of these posts just irritate me. #look im not saying you HAVE to interpret the delanceys a certain way. again; media belongs to the consumer. you can do what you want with i #it just irritates me when delancey apologists preach 'critical thought' and 'media literacy' #only to disregard the entirety of the delanceys characters #anyways thats my two cents. #my tags on that one post didnt come out the way i wanted them to but. editing tags is a nightmare so. #here we goes #newsies #uksies #livesies #west endsies #the delancey brothers #morris delancey #oscar delancey