#sams rant

Nobody really talks about how damaging abuse like Moon's can be. When they're excused by everyone around them, as it's normal behavior and shouldn't be seen as a bad thing since "well you could've behaved better." When they're nice sometimes so you trick yourself into thinking you're the problem. They're not abusive until you say something wrong, until you piss them off, until you break a rule. Sun's perspective of his brother is so skewed to forgive him. It was what he was taught. It's so difficult to tell if your abuser is getting better or just lying. Or maybe they were never abusive in the first place and you were just overreacting.

Sun can't hate Moon, he loves his brother and his brother loves him. Isn't that awful? After Moon tormented him for over a decade, Sun still can't hate him. Even saying it is a punishable offense. Moon is self aware of this and does fuck all to help. Sun's "use" to Moon before the Nexus arc was to either destroy Moon's life (unintentionally due to things out of Sun's control that Moon blamed him for) or be the grounding part of him. Sun wasn't treated as an equal for YEARS, he wasn't allowed to express his true emotions because Moon was always suffering more and he needed to support him. I'm not saying Moon never comforted Sun, but he clearly chooses NOT to when he's not up for it. Whenever Moon was going through it, Sun couldn't just ignore it. Sure, that was mostly Sun's choice, but do you think he instinctively did that? Do you think that wasn't due to Moon's apathy?

Sun can't just leave. Moon's a bad person, yet he can't say he is without feeling guilty. All of those times Moon helped him, when Moon saved his life and stopped him from spiraling. So much of their negative relationship came from Moon being stressed out from their situation, of course Moon'd react negatively to that! Anyone would! Sun can't demonize him for being scared, even if that fear or anger led to hurting Sun. Moon has suffered greatly, Sun knows this very well, which explains his behavior. But can his trauma excuse abuse? No. Sun can't say for sure. Moon doesn't hate Sun. Yet how can Sun trust that after being mistreated his entire life?

Mental/Emotional abuse is so painful to unpack, so a lot of this is probably me projecting. Very fitting I'm listening to "You're A Big Girl Now" while writing this.

You know, I've been thinking a lot about TSAMS and the direction the show is taking, a direction I'm not really liking too much... so how about we ignore canon for a few seconds and you listen—read—a little "What if..." that's been on my mind lately? Who knows, maybe I'll even make an AU just because I like the concept.

Do you remember the creator? I hope so! (I'm just being sarcastic, sorry.) But anyway, I always found his relationship with his creations, Sun & Moon, interesting. The idea that Sun & Moon were basically a rushed and unfinished project is intriguing to me. I think it could have led to a lot of angst, delved deeper into the story, and perhaps answered some questions the twins' behavior raises. But since the show killed off the creator way too soon, we're going to be left with those questions forever.

Anyway~ some headcanons and other stuff are coming in here, you've been warned! But it's interesting how Moon is (somewhat) portrayed as the Creator's creation who most resembles him, you know, super intelligent and a bit cynical? With a big ego? Believing he can do everything because Sun is too "soft and dumb" to be of any help? Yeah? Uh-huh... I was thinking, what if it were the other way around? What if Sun is the one who most resembles the Creator? And I don't mean the Creator we all saw on the show, I mean the Creator when he was young.

Because I don't believe that all beings are born powerful, I don't believe that everyone is born an evil mastermind! I think... that a long time ago, the Creator probably had another name, another life. I think he used to be weak, someone everyone took advantage of, pathetic until something changed and he rose to the top.

I like to think that when he created Sun and Moon, he wanted to create a being that was like his "best version" from the beginning; he tore away parts of himself that he considered "worthy and better" and gave his intelligence to Moon, his analytical mind, his cynicism, all to try to create a mini him (probably out of ego) and to Sun, he gave the things that the Creator considered pathetic and weak; kindnes and a caring nature.

That would give the family a pretty interesting dynamic:

Sun, who wants nothing to do with the Creator, ends up being the one who most resembled him in his early days, and the Creator hates him for it. He hates seeing the part of himself he thought was pathetic and weak keep going in life despite everything. I think it would make him jealous, in a "why are you like this when I can't be?" kind of way. I think he would hate that Sun succeded where the Creator himself failed, so he tries to make his life as miserable as possible because of it...

This provides a perfect opportunity to give Sun a "villain arc." A scenario where Sun couldn't take the pressure anymore and broke, just like the Creator did at some point, and it leads him down a path that would leave him in the same shoes as the Creator: a person who grew weary of life and decided to bite back! Oh, the angst! Sun, realizing that he is becoming more and more like the Creator but unable to stop because everything in his life is terrible... perhaps Sun could emerge unscathed, saying "life is shit but I remain true to myself and my principles" and doing something the Creator failed to do: remain a good person even when life spits in your face.

...Or perhaps he could fail, perhaps Sun would end up just like the Creator, dying at someone's hands because Sun is so far gone that there's no saving him.

It would be almost poetic no matter which way the story turns, it doesn't matter if Sun triumphs or not, what matters is that at the end of the day, the Creator and Sun are the same, that dynamic of not being two sides of the same coin, but being the same side that ended up falling either in the same place, or in a completely different one.

And the same for like half of the cast, there is nothing but negativity for them recently.

As someone who stopped watching the show in November, and then unsubscribed from it just before New Year, I’ve developed quite a few, which feels like a shame because I really wanted to enjoy this show and its characters but, by the end, I was left with a lot of negative emotions and dissatisfaction towards it. Buckle up because this might get long.

I’ll start off with the one I’m probably most known for: I completely despise the addition of the Overseer’s kid to the family, and that they’re apparently Moon’s kid. This kid is the most blatant example of a character being created solely as a plot device, so much so that I just call this kid “plot device kid” because I straight up refuse to name them. They should’ve never been created. I hate how completely out-of-character this is for Moon. He never once expressed interest in wanting a child but he suddenly wants to take care of this random child he’s never met and knows nothing about because…? This kid feels like Molten’s immediate replacement, and I’d imagine that Solar and Cosmos would rightfully object to the kid being in their house. The show, if they wanted to make Moon a parent, needed to establish that Moon had changed his opinion on children and would be open to the idea of having a child of his own one day, and then buildup to him having a child in whatever way they decide, (like Moon meets and develops a parental relationship with an animatronic child, or he decides to build one of his own), as long as it’s not basically kidnapping a kid from their recently deceased parent. Or the show made a new Moon character who is a parent. This was my final straw for the show after months of dissatisfaction, and I admit I project all my frustration onto the plot device kid because of it.

Dazzle is my least favourite character in the show. I thought she was a poorly handled character on the show the moment I found out about her, which was the episode where Sun tells Moon who Dazzle truly was, and I had no clue who Sun was talking about because I didn’t watch LAES. She makes next-to-no appearances on the show and has no personality.

Continuing off the last one, the two episodes featuring Dazzle’s bio father get my vote for two of the worst episodes of the entire show. I don’t know which episode is worse. The first one is uncomfortable to watch because of the show making a grieving parent a villain for acting in, while irrational, an understandable way towards the person responsible for killing his daughter. And for painting Sun and Moon as the good guys when they weren’t. As for the second episode, I thought it was overdramatic, ridiculous, (Dazzle getting shot somehow had me rolling my eyes), and the entire family were just stupid. Like, Dazzle couldn’t pick up on the tension and decided to run into danger when she was literally watching it? Kids are smarter than that and can pick up on tension. And there was literally four other people in the house and none of them noticed Dazzle was missing? And how did none of them hear what was happening outside? THE DOOR WAS WIDE OPEN!!!

Still on the kid characters, I think the show should’ve never had brought them into the family in the first place. It’s an example of the characters being stupid again. This family is literally threatened and attacked by powerful villains on a daily basis and they want to bring in defenceless children who can very easily be kidnapped and/or killed by these villains?! The show can have kid characters as part of the cast, but just not part of the family.

Speaking of villains, I want this show to have a true villain who is female. The only female villain that the show has had is Rosie, and she did nothing. I want a female villain who is so unapologetically evil that they’ll be willing to hurt or kill anyone for any reason. The show needs a good female character in general, honestly.

I mean this with no disrespect intended for the creator, but the family’s third/current home is such a downgrade compared to the first two. It’s very empty and lifeless and, ironically enough, for a house that was literally made to be for the family, it’s lacking any personality. I feel like if you simply just removed the fanart off the walls, it would just be a generic house.

The show should avoid doing more serious topics because they more often than not end up fumbling with them. For example, Terra’s chronic pain feels like it’s been completely forgotten about by now. I think the thumbnail artists remember the wheelchair more than the show does. And I have no hope for how the show would handle the new stuff with Moon’s memory loss because I fear that it’ll be used as either a way to “improve” Moon or be, funnily enough, completely forgotten about in a short time.

I firmly believe that the show pretending that Moon’s unlocking emotions plot never happened was a result of the backlash that the show received when they announced that they wanted to strip Moon of the aroace and agender aspects of his character. Parts of Moon that feel, to me, universally liked by fans. It feels like a big disconnect between the people working on the show and the fans, like the creators didn’t know that people liked these parts of Moon, and the horrible implication that the show thinks that aroace people and agender people are emotionless.

I don’t want Sun to be in a romantic relationship with anyone, not until everything is dealt with and the family’s lives are peaceful. It’s mainly for the same reason why I don’t want children in the family: an innocent person being dragged into the family’s problems and their life is in constant danger.

The show has a bad “tell, don’t show” problem, especially with characters’ relationships with each other. My go-to example is Sun and Dazzle’s relationship because that was one of the earliest ones I picked up on, before the problem got worse. I never liked how the show would constantly say that Sun is a great dad (which he really isn’t being right now, Sun, for the love of God, GET DAZZLE OUT OF THE SANCTUARY SCHOOL AND AWAY FROM THAT PLACE RIGHT NOW) but it was never shown to us. For a video series, I would like to see characters interacting fairly regularly so I can actually believe they have a close relationship. Compare that to Solar and Jack (before the show ruined it), they were shown interacting with each other regularly, which made their relationship more believable to me.

I find it distracting how often the style of the models of the main cast clash with each other. For example, you’ve got Sun and Moon, who look like they were ripped straight out of Security Breach, and then you have Nova and Frost, who are so bright and colourful that they look like they belong in a toddler’s cartoon.

Speaking of models, while I think that one of the best decisions the show made with Sun and Moon was their thumbnail outfits, as I dub them, they both looked really bad on the actual model the one time each was shown. Moon’s turtleneck looked more like a black blob was MS Painted on him, while Sun’s vest looked more like something you’d put on a small doll. They overall didn’t look much like actual clothes.

Is Ruin in super hell now or is he in UNO heaven? Listen animatronic afterlife doesn't exist but like did Ruin make it to 'heaven'? Probably not, im just asking because it would not make sense to see him in a UNO video

Anyways for the actual ep.... it was... good uhm I honestly can't wait for Titan to get humbled tbh, im not as surprised at Titan exploiting Charlie like it's Titan he is supposed to be a villan idk why people are acting shocked when he says or does something remotely evil but Titan 'comforting' Charlie after he forced her to kill one of her friends was a little brave, especially snice Charlie could erase Titan from existence if she so wanted

The conversation Ruin and Titan was interesting and also so frustrating mostly because Ruin's self loathing and projection onto Titan is just extremely annoying, listen Ruin going through a redemption arc would have never worked so watching this ep felt like listening to a terrorist try to convince to become a Christian because being a good person is the right thing to do like Ruin killed trillions of people why is he sitting here giving Titan a lesson on being good and morality

I have barely anything to say about this ep, unless Ruin is down in super hell getting jumped by all the people he's hurt/killed he got off way too easy, immortality was the best punishment for Ruin

As much as I love Old Moon , he needs to learn how to communicate and apologies for what he did to sun. he was left off WAAAYYYY too easily.

I wanna see an episode where Moon comes to the realization he needs to stop and think about all his actions and apologies for them. I feel like this would be so interesting if New Moon and Old Moon met in a episode so everyone can see how different and how diferently complex both of them are. New Moon just woke up. going off Nothing but what hes heard and tried to be better than Old Moon but constantly felt like everyone around him besides solar saw him as old moon. YES, INCLUDING SUN. Sun had a huge ass problem with seeing Old Moon and New Moon as the same and needed to fix it. Solar was really the only one who saw New Moon as New Moon and thats why he crashed out so hard cause he felt like he lost the one animatronic that seprated him from old moon

if u know ur the pwrson im talking abt feel free to comment. if u reblog arguing with me im just not gonna respond for the sake of this blogs organization.

tw: sui mention under cut