Pokedash55

After much research I have constructed a Jose Carioca scoring system to judge how in character an appearance is.

Those sunglasses are on the antenna....

Like its my favorite sequence in the whole show but thinking about it they kinda stopped making hazbin for 3 minutes and focused on this much cooler short film about Vox. Well we already know he's a bad dude who has no hesitation killing people. It doesn't really advance the takeover plot nor the hotel or any of the moral questions presented in any of the cast.

We still dont know concretely the origin of the Vees, how close Al and Vox were, why Vox is so desperate for Alastors approval he'll kill himself over it, or anything actually important about them. The sequence tells us he was a successful serial killer (which is cool but not exactly useful, he's in hell and we've seen him casually feed people to his shark) and that he is desperate for power and control, which we knew already.

We forget for a moment this is hazbin hotel and transfer into a backstory fanfiction type onseshot about how cool Vox is and although it's literally the best thing ever it's so out of place and unnecessary. Its only function is giving us parallels to Alastors human flashback and hope we the fans theorize and characterize for them. Nothing about the relationship between these two important figures is actually developed or explained, especially their time in hell before the fallout. This is technically a poor way to deliver relationships as it's the writers job to explore and develop them and not the consumer.