they come to steal my soul

Easy marketing, lazy writing, trying too hard, who knows. Probably a mix of different things.

But to keep things a bit positive, a tip to anyone feeling frustrated: the best cure in situations like this, I’ve found, is to just hang on tight to your own headcanons and the parts of canon that you like. You can say it’s almost a requirement with stories that has gone on for decades on and off, and on top of it has had different writers working on it. Timelines and plots are inevitably going to get muddled and characters are going to change (sometimes for better, sometimes for worse). So you’re going to have people claiming something is canon and then realise there’s two versions of that specific detail or storyline and just have to pick which one to follow. In a weird way, there’s freedom there and at least makes me feel lighter when I look at it that way.

To share my favourite headcanons, (more like canons that kinda got lost during the years), are gross and self-absorbed 2D, somewhat socially awkward but extremely intelligent Noodle, “I’m gonna break your bones if you don’t give me back my eel” weird Russel, and most importantly extremely short (and eternally compensating for it) Murdoc.

Just thinking of those makes me smile and I will simply ignore everything that contradicts those. I’m just really too old to be angry about media that I don’t actually need to consume y’know? Gorillaz has given me some pretty fun times in the past and I’m just happy for that.

In short, whenever whenever canon disappoints me:

I know right? I’m really bummed they’re not continuing with the look Murdoc had in G-Shock, I loved that you could really see his age. He’s been smoking and drinking since he was like 12, that skin has seen things. I shudder to think what kind of toxins he’s injecting himself with to get that baby skin lmao.