What did you think of the last LITG episode? (I love reading your opinions lol 😭) I still feel like it was OOC and didn’t make any sense for our li to act so flustered around the new houseguests when they were still loyal to us, but what do I know lolll
Oh-hooooo let me sit down, cause this is gonna be another essay.
First, I should say that I’m not mad at the actual plot point. I think that we needed a reason to build trust with our LIs and this was one way it could happen. I think that freaking us and our MCs out is a good thing. HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that Fusebox (clownbox) executed this well at all.
1) The way our MCs could not talk to our LIs was bullshit. As soon as our LIs were like “ummmm...” when it came to our MC’s name, I would’ve pulled them over like “what the f*ck was that?”. Especially when they could have s*x in the shower that morning. It made no sense. There are other ways to show that someone’s head is being turned than to have them forget your MC’s name. What could they have done instead? I don’t know. I haven’t taken the time to think about that. Why? Cause that’s not my job. LOL I’m not about to do the heavy lifting for free. Not in this pandemic, not in this economy. I think that having a conversation with our LI should have been a top priority while writing this plot point.
2) The timing of this is also dumb. I think that if we were to have something like this happen, there would need to be five more days instead of three. This should have been the mid-point climax. It’s so weird that the sequence was an argument being overheard to this.... it just doesn’t make sense. I don’t even think that it would’ve made sense to move everything to earlier in the season, because when else would it have happened? I mean there was two whole weeks of NOTHING happening, not an ounce of drama. So perhaps deleting one of those days between day 2-4 so that all of the drama could have a better flow could be an option, but I think that we really just need more time towards the end at this point.
3) I can understand why people find that these past two days seem OOC, but again, I’m not mad that this happened, but I only like it in theory. The execution is where I had the brunt of my issues. Perhaps if they had more time, they could’ve really made sure that each LI had dialogue and actions that better suited each of them while still having it be like “will your LI’s head be turned?” Also, I don’t think that having Lily/Rafi interact flirtatiously with your LI and for your LI to “indulge” is necessarily a bad thing. It’s Love Island. Your LI will be grafted on by old and new islanders. Honestly, I think that I could see our LIs just trying to be polite or even actually indulging in it a little bit. But AGAIN, not being able to talk about it other than a “oh my gosh that was so close, I don’t wanna lose you” surface-level bullsh*t convo... that’s a mistake. It’s bad writing. Also, because it’s Love Island, I think it’s actually kinda understandable that a new person could come in and your LI can be like “oh shit, they’re hot” but AGAIN, not being able to communicate is making me go absolutely insane (especially when my Venus is in Taurus... bitch I was going crazzzyyyy).
I just wanna know which writer at clownbox needs to love themselves better. You deserve better!!! You don’t need to let yourself be treated this way. LMAO let me stop. But yeah, the more I think about it, the more I think that this season is just crippled by BAD writing. Like stinks so bad you can smell it from across the street.
