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he headhunted her for six months trying to get her out of nash, where she was all but completely stonewalled from doing the science she actually wants, and brought her to goddard where pryce was doing stuff with AIs she didn't even think was possible and then he stepped back and gave her an unprecedented amount of autonomy.

he introduced her to jacobi, he follows her example when it comes to addressing AIs (compared to jacobi, who well into the last season still doesn't see AIs as people), he defers to her expertise and pitches in to help even when skeptical of whether or not she can actually help hera. if anything, maxwell is annoyed and disappointed in jacobi more than she ever is with kepler.

- my main complaint that really all of my other complaints fall under is just that it was incredibly anticlimactic. i feel that they really did just set the stakes too high with how the latter half of s4 was written and there was no sensible way to knock all of the points they set up down? it just felt MESSY. don’t even get me started on how useless i think the addition of riemann is

- most deaths to me felt like cop-out after cop-out. though i will say that young’s death felt like a good decision and i did enjoy it, keplers death was. hm. Hhhhhmmmmmm. His death felt so anticlimactic to me which was incredibly disappointing for a character who’s very foundation is his hubris of egoism. yeah i suppose the end of his arc could be the destruction of his hedonism but the main reason WHY i didn’t like it was because it almost felt like they were trying to convince me that kepler changed last minute. he didn’t! though round, his character is pretty static to me. something about 18 ulterior motives. did he care about humanity? yes! did he care about his team? Sure. but his feelings on goddard overall didn’t really. he’s always felt the same like he had his personhood stolen from him, but was it ever really there? he’s an artist! he’s got a flair for the dramatic and that’s that. and his death felt purely like it was because no one knew how to tie up his arc. and cutters death was just fuckin LAME. i remember listening to it and just going “what? that’s it?” sure mcguffins harpoon but ughhhh IM CALLING COP OUT

- hera and pryce frustrated me. so. fucking. bad. the way hera’s ptsd was treated in the end oh i CANT. compared to memoria and am i alone now it was AWFUL AWFUL. the very climax in her character was dedicated to her acknowledging that her ptsd was incurable as it literally is just a festering tumor in her code and the only thing she can do is learn to live with it. and then. only for them to throw that out the window and go “what if pryce was manipulated too? surely that would add nuance” And then just. Forgot to add said nuance in. keeping pryce around [hera] was definitely a choice imo. i don’t like how immediately forgiving everyone was. and also i hate the amnesiac/“it was all a dream” trope. so much.

- …speaking of the amnesiac trope. eiffels memory loss greatly frustrates me every time i think about it and i can’t really elaborate on why outside of It Just Doesn’t Make Sense. the reasons i see for Why it could have happened is 1. to show the super meta ness of wolf and how it challenges what makes you, you and for what you are without all of your traumas. 2. because wouldn’t it be funny if he worked so hard to get what he wanted but couldn’t even reap what he sowed? but i just. the way they immediately have him just go Man Old me was a Jerk right Minkowski! I dunno. it just ticked me off

I feel like for kepler and eiffel especially i would have enjoyed the finale a lot more if they had faced a couple more detrimental consequences of their actions. I don’t know how i would’ve done it myself but that’s what i think.

hera page with new watercolors. i think i come back every couple months with a new fandom… non-scanned ver under cut

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