I just wanted to say that I appreciate your IWTV/TVL takes. You are very fair and honest. We may disagree on this or that thing, but I can at least be certain that you are not arguing in bad faith. I have seen so many bad faith takes about this season, it's wild. With so many actual things to critcize, some people are just making up a whole different show in their heads to angry at it or are outright refusing to engage with the material.
I think in many ways, at this point, the show has kind of earned bad faith and knee jerk reactions.
The drop in quality is a bit obvious and itās clear that the show has pivoted from a thoughtful, methodical twist on the source material to become a bit of a mangled and rush job on the second novel, to the point that itās being bested by Anne Rice herself which isā¦ bleak.
So likeā¦ overly mean, maybe a bit un-nuanced nitpicking isnāt out of place. The show is being hurtful and hurt people donāt owe the show a 20 page essay to air out their pain
That said, I do always strive to at least figure out where the writing intended to go and tear it down at its failure pointsāto see where its trying to go and point out how it didnāt actually get there. Like I WAS correct about the show being meaningful in Louis failing womenā¦ but the show is just kinda flailing that around like a blunt weapon rather than doing anything interesting or character building from it.
So I get why watching it, a lot of people wouldnāt want to be charitable to it. I donāt think the show has earned revisiting transcripts and previous episodes and IMDb credits to really get at what theyāre saying. I donāt wanna demonize anyone kinda just tearing this season apart because the way itās been thoughtlessly racist IS unforgivable. Its flattening of most characters is alienating. The gap between this season and the last is a chasm that most shouldnāt want to clear.
But I just wanna make sure my complaints and enjoyment alike are backed up because Iām a bitch who canāt outrun the uvm junior year vampirism in literature grading systems and I need to cite my sources and defend my thesis etc etc
Itās bad enough I get why people donāt wanna deal with all that but good enough that I still want to. Iām loyal to the potential this show still has, even as Iām aware Iām about to have a lot, A LOT of egg on my face
This is a lot of writing to say thank you but also donāt dismiss the people who are just vocalizing their pain in more succinct ways. The show is fucking up and hasnāt earned patience. Iām probably being overly defensive
I agree that a lot of the critical posts are maybe missing some of the nuance, which is why I havenāt reblogged a bunch, but alsoā¦ sometimes itās fuck nuance, yāunno? Nuance is an act of kindness and sometimes you need to be kind to deserve kind. And this show isnt being kind
So I hope youāre still taking other perspectives seriously! Iām just one asshole on the Internet
