pipedreamprayer replied to your post: random thoughts on Sirius 12
I’m a bit confused what you mean by showing us Yuliy and Willard developing their relationship. I thought the whole point of the events in the mansions roof was that they were ALREADY at that point but keeping this secret and being so sure of the way it would end blinded Willard to that fact until Yuliy was screaming in his face that he’d been a father to him and he mattered to him so freaking much so why the hell hadn’t he just TOLD him before now?!
No, I understand that they were already at the point. My problem is that, like most things in the series, we knew that because we were told that it was so. The characters basically exposited the entire thing through dialogue. We didn’t see it through actions. We didn’t have flashbacks to Willard, like, taking care of little Yuliy, or Yuliy learning to trust him or opening up to him or whatever, etc. Really, there wasn’t anything up until that point that would have shown that they have a bond that is particularly special (other than the fact that Yuliy was obviously special just in general) or deep. So things like Yuliy going “OMG UR LIKE A FATHER TO ME” wasn’t something that was set up organically, it was just “EXPOSITION! MORE EXPOSITION! MAKE SURE THAT THE VIEWERS GET IT!”Â












