#media commentary

And that framing irrationally annoys me. No, you weirdos, they did not "forget" anything, they didn't "make a mistake." They chose to change or leave out that detail. Your next step upon realizing that should be to ask yourself: why? Why would they choose to make that change? Is it to make things fit better with the new medium? To cut down on time? Tighten up the pacing? Maybe they had a philosophical disagreement with the original work and wanted to challenge it, or maybe they're adapting the early chapters of long-running ongoing and the change brings things more thematically in line with the later installments. Maybe they couldn't render the thing due to limits of budget and/or technology so they decided to do something else instead.

There are as many reasons to make changes in adaptation as there are changes to be made and "They didn't mean to do it" is both the least likely and least interesting answer to the question of why.

When that one post that's going around says, "So many people are bad at critique," this is part of what they mean. If you're going to critique something, you will get more out of it if you approach your critique from the perspective that the creators knew what they were doing and created with intention.

If the genders were swapped for Blazer and Robert, you guys would also instantly see how coercive and manipulative she is as a boss towards her employee. Imagine if a man took a woman to a bar and got her drunk for a job interview, and got her a second drink after saying she was going to sober up. Then flying said female interviewee with no superpowers of her own onto a billboard and then leaving her there!

There was so much fan fodder for the HuskerDust fans and Chaggie fans! Husk blushing and his high pitched voice when realized the “broad” he was talking about was Angel, was complete peak entertainment! I couldn’t get over Charlie and Vaggie working things out in their relationship and figuring out how to work together again. It was a fresh breath of air to see a healthy relationship in Hell!

Losing Streak and Easy was my favorite songs out of them. Both were surprisingly slow paced songs and yet such a nice turn from HH’s usual fast pace.

Also Alastor being a piece of shit in his damn rolling chair was fucking hilarious😂. I loved him being so maddeningly infuriating to the Vees. The fact that Vel and Val are starting to see how truly shitty Vox is thanks to Alastor is a nice touch by the story writers.

I can’t get over Val nailing Vox with a fucking mug and making his screen get all messed up. It was a well deserved reaction and can we talk about the fact that Val is from Florida of all places?! Definitely a surprise for me, I think I, along with many other fans, assumed he was Mexican given that he speaks Spanish. But him being from Florida AND speaking Spanish given his location is really good character writing!

I enjoyed seeing Lucifer’s demon form again! Any time we see the King become Demon Daddy is always fun😌. It was so heart wrenching to see him demeaned by Vox, as well as his reaction when yelled at by Charlie. Like what has that poor man been through that made him react in such a particular way as hiding?? Surely the man has some trauma that hasn’t been explained by the story writing yet.

Some more commentary on Vox, there were some disappointed fans when he showed his true colors with him being a racist and all. Unfortunately not surprising given he’s an old fuck from the 60’s or 70’s, but it’s always going to be a sad time for fans when their favorite villain is even more shitty in such a realistic way. The fact that he calls one of the most common languages besides English, an “island language” got my blood boiling. The man is a clear product of his time which makes him an even better villian in my opinion. Because everyone loves to hate on a racist so why not give us one served up on a platter!

Overall, these new songs weren’t my favorites in general personally. Vox’s songs in particular didn’t hit as hard as his past two, I think it was because it sounded more like they were using the song as a way to explain his plans in a story way rather than show what his plans are in an action way. Definitely a preference thing for me, but glad to see the story is still developing:). I did love that Husk got a complete song and it being a solo was definitely good in terms of character plot! Angel getting another song never hurts, but I enjoyed it in particular because it showed how the relationship between him and Husk is developing in such a gradual and healthy way. Even the way they’ve argued has been healthy! Both recognize their faults and take the time to apologize for the parts they played in it. I’m desperately hoping that it’ll develop to be as healthy as we see Charlie and Vaggie’s.

And over on Twitter people are talking about how Season 2 is going to end in a cliff hanger, which all in all isn’t very surprising if you look at the pacing. I think it was a good decision story-wise because then they can lay out Vox properly as a villain and we can see the whole arc in real time.

Angel getting hypnotized by Vox this whole time was also a huge mindfuck, like wtf??? SPARE HIM OMG😭. The poor guy has been through enough as is! It was super sad to see that the abuse wasn’t just coming from Val’s end but at Vox’s hands too. Be it from physical abuse to literal hypnotizing, it sucked seeing such a lovable character get beaten down in such a way.

It was so nice to see some background work and appearances of smaller characters too! The other overlords popping into a song and to hear some of their voices for the first time was cool:).

I think in the end I’m very happy to see the story develop in such a way and I can’t wait to see where they take it!