at the pitch meeting for the job episode:
someone: we need to establish continuity with the s1 biblical scenes, some kind of callback
neil and/or douglas mackinnon, about to be the funniest people alive: oh, haven't you heard...?
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s4 tomshiv is murdering me...the tension is so peak, matthew macfadyen and sarah snook have so much fucking chemistry, the history between tom and shiv is more dynamic and layered with every line of dialogue, they're insane, i'm insane, never has the line between love and hatred, desire and disgust, been more fluid, i'm going to gnaw off my own arm...thank you and goodnight
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wait im sorry. ive never read past the first book of dotc and all my knowledge of it really just comes from your blogs. wh. why did the erins decide to include sexual violence in warriors? like. that seems a little. too much? like all im hearing of dotc is just. terrible shit. i like reading more angst/serious stuff (i wanna say darker but not in the way "dark media" usually means on this site) but this feels like WAYYY to much for a book series meant for kids....... what were they thinking??
I legitimately do not understand what people like about DOTC. You can go back to where I started this re-read, and you can visibly watch my charitability drain as the project goes on.
It feels like literally everything that people say they like about this arc is not there, while they've completely forgotten or misremembered SERIOUSLY awful shit
And now, listen. I'm a huge fan of xenofiction, which is a genre that is full of kid's and teen's media, but I do love more adult fiction. I love nuanced themes, dark subjects, and complicated plots.
DOTC's message is just plain odious. None of what it sets out to say is worth saying, and it's borderline incompetent at even saying it to begin with.
What they want to say with Clear Sky and Slash is that Clear Sky isn't "evil." He's a "fundamentally good person," and all of his intentions were good, so he learned a valuable lesson from all the abuse and murder. To say this, they CONTRAST him to Slash, a REAL evil person, who just loves hurting kids and harassing women. Clear Sky is good because he is not "real evil" like this fake, cartoon caricature we just made up.
There was absolutely zero need for them to write Slash the way they did. They really want you to be distressed for Clear Sky as his wife is assaulted in front of him and hauled off while kicking and screaming, and they decided the best way to do that was pregnant woman pinning face licking. Sexual violence is an easy way to disgust and anger an audience, simple as that.
As a kid you may not realize how messed up it is (though the asks I get on this blog are a testament to how many kids did, but didn't have the words to express their discomfort) but as an adult with your critical thinking on? It hits different.
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crowley whispering "just the two of us" bc he's absolutely done pretending and is making everything he feels perfectly clear, if comparing them to a couple isn't enough, bc he is utterly done of dancing around each other and there's no longer the "we could leave together bc we're friends" that was in s1. NOO. he literally said "and i would like to spend it [with you]". he is saying loud and fucking clear "i want you. i just want you, i don't care about heaven and hell, i turned down being a duke of hell for you and i didn't care. i don't want to be an angel again, i just want to be with you. i want a life with you" and aziraphale is shutting it down once again, even if this time he wants more than anything for crowley to go with him. and the worst thing is, they can't compromise. they're both far too stubborn and want everything with each other but one of them still can't choose the other so it'll never work. aziraphale has, seemingly, chosen heaven over crowley once again while aziraphale has been crowley's only choice for millenniums.
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