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The male love interest will growl and be possessive, there's an exchange of you're mine and stuff regardless of whether being possessive makes sense for the character. They'll be insanely attracted to each other, probably from the get go for unknown reasons. Dramatic "I burn for you" speeches will take place, even if there isn't a mating bond, the dynamic will be written as if that's the case.

A lot of authors are writing characters to fit the kind of dynamic they want, the kind of romance, rather than writing the characters and letting the dynamic speak for itself. Therefore we get the same shit regurgitated again and again and look I can like this kind of thing when it's done well. But I mean in every romantacy or romance, it's almost like you know the dynamic, the kind of dialogue you'll get before you even pick it up.

Am I wrong that I don't want Hannibal the TV show to be renewed or rebooted?

Like it was perfect, I don't feel that there is anything left to say.

Would I enjoy consuming more content? yes I would. but I also think that about all my favourite pieces of media. That feeling of being satisfied but still wanting more is what keeps it fresh in my mind, what keeps me still thinking about it to this day. I still find the show interesting

It was 3 imperfectly perfect seasons. I know it was cancelled but they still managed to make the "finale" one of the best I've ever seen. but because of the business model of renewing things and then bleeding it dry to make money, the TV shows legacy is kind of under threat

Does the story call for another season. No it doesn't

Leave the audience still wanting more while being satisfied, not being shoowed off the stage

I feel the same way about BBC Merlin too, there are only so many shows that I can point to and say that it ended perfectly.

Obviously if Brian fuller believes he has something else to say with this story, that the characters could be developed further in their arcs, then who am I to disagree? but it has to come from a place of creativity and respect for your own art rather than a cash grab which would inevitably destroy the legacy of the show. And too many shows have fallen victim to that

We need to become more comfortable with letting stories end.

Side note (okay what was this tho!)

I doubt I'll say anything anyone else hasn't already been said better but it's just such a frustrating topic because Will could have become one of the greatest characters in television. And I need to rant about it

I'll admit that volume one wasn't actually that good, I liked the potential it left for the rest of the season and the ending scene (which everybody was obsessed with). Which proves we wanted will as the main character, and then you proceeded to make him absolutely useless for the rest of the show. Why even have this scene in the first place?

Will is almost like a red herring, we believed he would be the one to go head to head with vecna. Instead they had him incapacitated for 2 episodes while nobody except his mom seemed to care. Then his character is essentially just watered down to being gay.

This is nothing to do with byler not happening but the way that they negated that relationship did actually not make sense for the character.

"he's just my Tammy" so that's what the arc was leading up to this entire time. A slow burn rejection (a cop out)

Mike can't be wills Tammy - which just means a crush/ or feelings for someone based on your own desperation for love and to be loved.

Because Was that what will felt for mike? Mike wasn't some blank slate to paint his desires and hopes onto the way that crushes are. Robin wasn't in love with Tammy, she was infatuated with her.

Will painted him as the best and truest version of who he was, and understood him on a deeper level than el obviously did. He didn't need to be told by mike that he loved him (platonically) and probably new mike had problems saying it but knew it didn't make it any less true.

What the duffer brothers do is essentially use the Tammy metaphor to universalise the gay experience of unreciprocated love. That those in the gay community all go through the stage of crushing on a straight person, but this crush isn't about the person but about their own insecurities and desperation.

Look this just isn't true. Crushes are always kind of This no matter what sexuality you are, but being in love (really being in love) just isn't.

Will was in love with mike, and this was erased for plot convenience, they decided that he needed to get over it so they made him get over it.

And so destroyed a major relationship dynamic in the show by changing the context of their scenes in other season. Their last interaction is a scene where Will asks if they could still be friends and this was put in as an afterthought because a 18 year old cast member told them they should. Like come on

They didn't do anything with his parallels to vecna, didn't explore the consequences to being plugged into the hive mind, didn't have him do anything of substance whatsoever except save max and holly that one time in episode 5 to then be completely useless.

And that coming out scene? Don't even get me started. How bad it was and how mainstream the show is makes how Will's character was handled even worse. It's a scene that's done to deal with him and his plot and get it out the way, not a scene dealt with tact and respect. It opens up more room for homophobia around wills character, and doesn't portray him with the complexity he deserves.

If Will's character had been written as we had thought he would be after volume one, this would have been amazing for young queer people and just the LGBT communities in general because we finally have representation on a massive level, who is a complex main character rather than a tokenised two dimensional side character that's defined solely by their sexuality.

So this does have wider consequences, because of what it could have been and what it is now. Will is a character who is made fun of by the fandom and media alike (the snl skit) because of homophobia but also because of how the character was written which invited ridicule.

Anyways to sum up, the season was shit, and made me realise that the show itself wasn't particularly good without the anticipation for more to come to fix these plot holes, to find out if theories are correct and to develop characters and their relationships

It's part of the netflix problem for Sure. Why cator to an audience on their phones for god sake, they obviously aren't the ones who love your show. It's the popularity and mainstream media problems where anything that becomes extremely popular becomes worse as a result of watering things down to fit the general public and to be more digestible.

Tell me how one of the "worst" doctor companion pairings regenerated into one of the greatest companion and doctor dynamics of all time

Like I love eleven and Clara because it's the beginning of twelve and Clara's relationship, you need one to understand the other.

I don't hate it actually, it's a pretty nice piece of aesthetic storytelling. I love how Tara's hair and clothing changes over the course of the show, and this change is her most dramatic and crucial, which is definitely fitting for her downfall season.

If you look at season 4 and five it's an obvious slow transformation into looking aesthetically like Gemma

It's a visual manifestation of Tara losing herself to the club, and replacing Gemma as THE old lady. When she cuts her hair while in prison this is when she decided that she was going to get her kids out of charming no matter what it took

Maggie siff said it was a representation of loss, of traditional femininity which she cuts off, of club femininity and submissiveness to the club. She's rejecting this Gemma "old lady" identity. The "Stand by your man"

It's also funny because she sports the same hair style as Margaret who is like the anti-gemma,

who is the representation for escape from the club and the life or what Tara could have been had she never gotten back with Jax.

She tells Tara in season 3 "I leave it there so I remember that that shits behind me" which is the same thing Tara tells Gemma in season 1. And she desires this once again

It's sadly ironic, as she sports this look which opposes her to Gemma but She manipulates and lies like Gemma in order to reach her goal. There's this disparity between who she wants to be and who shes become.

And they proceeded to list every female character in the show.

Margaret was on the list. Margaret.

And it's so heartbreaking, it was an amazing scene but it'll never not haunt me that there was a take of this scene that was better where jax was wailing but they didn't have the camera rolling 😕 I hate life

Rewatching at the moment and I just love her so much more

Might actually be one of my faves

I never got the Martha hate anyways, maybe cause when I first watched doctor who I started with season 2 and I kind of hated rose (we all make mistakes) and Martha was a breath of fresh air for me. She gets no credit for how funny she is

The way she was getting hit on in every episode by a random side character.

Andrew Garfield was right there Martha

And don't get me started on how they traded his guy for Micky 😭

The writers really thought. Wow we've got two black characters why don't we have them married out of nowhere

Especially as he's roses ex. Like can Martha ever escape her

Her season was the one that got me into doctor who in the first place. I hate that she gets so overlooked she's a fantastic companion

jax and tara from sons of anarchy (tragic romantic love) they break my heart. "what happened to me?"

claudia and louis - interview with a vampire. (paternal love) "claudia was....everything" should get more appreciation

jinx and silco - arcane. (paternal love) he was the worst thing that ever happened to her, and she was the best thing that ever happened to him. "don't cry....you're perfect"

Clara and the Doctor. doctor who (ambiguous love) may i say, they are my favs. "do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference"

jinx and vi. (sisterly love) the emotional heart of the story (arcane) "i thought....that maybe you could love me like you used to"

Ragnar and athelstan - vikings. (ambiguous love) "i hate you for leaving me" *cries*

arthur and merlin - merlin (ambiguous love *come on its romantic*) the og queerbate "thank you...."

hannibal and will - hannibal. (toxic "love") "I let you know me... see me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it"

Cesare and Lucrezia - the borgias - it's gonna sound weird to anyone who hasn't watched the show - "Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.”

I meannn

yes. i can impose my obsessions on anything

There's a type of relationship dynamic where a woman loves the main character and they, in return, ruin their lives'