Shadow and Bone (more specifically the Crows) cancelation reactions

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Shadow and Bone (more specifically the Crows) cancelation reactions

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Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker (Shadow & bone (serie) & Six of Crows (book)),,, +++ Graphtober 2025,, Corbeau/oiseau.
In Defense of Alina Starkov (Yes, She's a Teenage Girl, Just Not the One You Wanted)
So we can all read the minds of teenage girls now? We expect them to be passionate, curious, rebellious, and socially conscious, but only in the ways we find palatable. Apparently, if a girl is orphaned, ostracized, and raised in a war-torn country with no family, no stability, and no guarantee of tomorrow, she should still be able to shake off all her trauma responses and become a flawless war heroine overnight. No fear, no resistance, no hesitation, just instant savior mode.
But Alina Starkov doesnât exist to meet your modern-day generalizations of how a teenage girl should behave. Personality isnât one-size-fits-all. Itâs shaped by lived experience. Alina grew up in survival mode...small, quiet, and inconspicuous, because drawing attention could get her hurt or killed. Her so-called passivity isnât laziness, itâs trauma doing its job. And the point of her arc is that she learns to grow beyond it.
What really annoys me is how quickly people dismiss her as âthat whiny girl obsessed with Mal,â as if her emotional dependence is petty or immature. Mal isnât just her childhood friendâheâs the only tether to a life before sainthood was forced onto her. Heâs her anchor in a world that sees her as a weapon. Imagine being told the one person who makes you feel human is a distraction. Imagine being called weak for refusing to sever the last thread that connects you to who you are.
Judging Alina through modern expectations completely misses the point. Her story may be fantasy, but her struggles are metaphors for real emotional truths. Her supposed "privilege" as the Sun Summoner is anything but it's a curse that makes her a target for the Darklingâs manipulation, the royal courtâs exploitation, and the Grishaâs resentment. Her âwhiningâ about the weight of it all isnât entitlement, itâs human. Her arc from self-doubt to self-possession reflects the internal battle of someone carrying a burden no teenager should have to bear.
You see this pattern again with Genya. On the surface, she âhad it easyâ....pretty dresses, royal access, life in the Grand Palace. But her beauty was a weapon she never asked for. Her loyalty turned her into a pawn. And her so-called privilege left her isolated, objectified, and abused. Her trauma, especially the sexual violence she endured deserves every ounce of sympathy.
But it raises a question: why does that sympathy seem to stop with Genya? Why is Alina, who was collared, controlled, and turned into a weapon, so often dragged for being emotionally affected? Their trauma isnât the same and shouldnât be equated, but both girls were exploited, both fought to reclaim their autonomy, and both bore the weight of power they didnât choose. So why is Genya praised when she breaks from her oppressors, but Alina is mocked for taking longer? If one is worthy of empathy, why not the other?
Like Alina, Genyaâs âadvantagesâ were just trauma wrapped in silk. Gilded cages are still cages.
And that's why Alinaâs arc does mirror real teenage resilience. Her journey from hiding her power to choosing to lead is a fantasy translation of universal coming-of-age struggles: insecurity, identity, growing pains. Real teens donât battle shadow monsters or have mythical amplifiers for best friends, but they do experience emotional whiplash when relationships evolve. They do fear abandonment. They do wrestle with expectations they never asked for. The magic doesnât trivialize her pain, it amplifies it. Power doesnât equal privilege. And resilience isnât about being fearless, itâs about surviving in spite of fear.
The critiques of Alinaâs âpassivityâ ignore the fact that itâs the starting point of her arc, not the destination. She hides her power because being different is dangerous. She clings to Mal because heâs her only family, and orphans in Ravka donât get the luxury of being emotionally independent. Her dependence isnât weakness, itâs honest and real. Itâs what trauma looks like.
As for the so called âtrivial complaintsâ? The herring thing is laughable when even battle hardened soldiers like Zoya have food preferences. Alinaâs grief over the stag? Itâs not some vegan protest, itâs a soul deep response to the death of a magical creature she was bonded to. Her distress over Malâs silence? In a world where letters are the only form of communication, her anxiety reflects fear of abandonment, not petulance over not getting a text back. These arenât signs of being out of touch. Theyâre evidence of her being human.
One of the most tone-deaf criticisms is that Alina should be grateful to be Ravkaâs Living Saint. Grateful for what, exactly? Being labeled the countryâs only hope while being collared, controlled, and used as leverage against the one person she loves? Thatâs not destiny, itâs a carefully disguised prison. Her so-called âwhiningâ is fear, plain and raw, the kind that hits when you realize youâve been handed a live grenade and told to smile for the crowd. And real people would crumble under far less.
By Ruin and Rising, Alina does completes a powerful arc: she leads an army "Iâm going to fight", defies the Darkling "I wonât be your pawn", and sacrifices her power "I had wanted to be whole". Her arc from self-erasure to agency proves sheâs resilient, not a âwilted potato.â If this growth from a traumatized orphan to someone who makes these choices is "spineless," what exactly counts as bravery?
Alina isnât Katniss or Inej, and thatâs okay. Her story isnât about being a perfect revolutionary, but about a damaged girl learning to claim agency in a world that wants to use her. If she were male, her fears would be "humanizing" and her flaws "complex." Because sheâs female, theyâre dismissed as "annoying." That says more about our biases than it does about her character.
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Watching the show left me with many reflections about leadership in Ravka, and I cannot help but see Aleksander as the only one who truly acted like a sovereign, while the others revealed from the very beginning that they were not suited to rule.
The destruction of the Fold was already a mistake. Whatever one might say about it, the Fold had been a shield that protected Ravka from Fjerda and Shu Han. It was dangerous and tragic, but it was also a strategic barrier. By destroying it without having any real plan for Ravkaâs survival, Alina, Zoya, and Nikolai made their first fatal decision. Aleksander understood better than anyone that the Fold was not simply darkness, it was also power, and in the harsh logic of geopolitics power could not be thrown away lightly.
Alina acted from compassion and hope. She wanted to free people, to erase suffering, and it was beautiful, but she failed to see the larger picture. Ravka could not afford a ruler who placed personal feelings above the survival of the state. That choice revealed her as a symbol rather than a sovereign.
Zoya showed the same lack of strategic vision. Her ambition went hand in hand with aggression and a desire to prove herself, not with foresight for the country. Her hostility towards Alina carried tones of racism, and her jealousy and obsession with Aleksander influenced too many of her decisions. Instead of offering discipline and long-term strategy, she leaned on pride and division. With her, leadership always served her own need for dominance rather than Ravkaâs survival.
Nikolai was perhaps the most disappointing of all. He looked the part of a monarch, and at first his diplomacy and charm seemed convincing. Yet the moment he stood before Alina at the end and told her that Ravka and Fjerda had to forget what happened between them, he revealed complete naivety. To me, that speech showed he did not grasp the brutal truth: Fjerda would never forget, never forgive, and never stop attacking. A ruler who began with illusions about reconciliation was already setting the country on a path to disaster. Unlike Aleksander, who recognized that Ravka was surrounded by enemies who respected only strength, Nikolai spoke like a dreamer, not a leader.
Aleksander, in contrast, never shied away from the weight of power. His choices were harsh, but they were made with survival in mind. He knew that power and fear could protect Ravka in a way empty words never could. When I think about him, I see echoes of history, of leaders who stood their ground when everything was at stake. I am reminded of Leonidas at Thermopylae, who held the line against overwhelming force because he knew that his stand meant survival for his people. Aleksander was the same kind of figure: someone who accepted that his role was not to be loved, but to ensure that Ravka endured, no matter the personal cost.
Where Alina destroys, Zoya divides, and Nikolai compromises, Aleksander rules. For me, this is what sets him apart. He is the only one who thinks and acts like a ruler in Ravkaâs geopolitical reality. His vision is not about personal comfort or reconciliation, it is about the survival of the nation. And in a world like Ravkaâs, that is the only thing that truly matters.
François chilling meeting Oprah while Twitter is going through some mass hysteria
omg!!!!!! he out here living his best life!!!! love that for him! also looks like another great outfit đ
stuck in an elevator, who breaks first
Matthias. wild animal that he is, small spaces are no fun
Zoya. she'd get so fed up with everyone else that she'd blow the roof off
Kaz, because Jesper keeps stepping on his foot
jesper, because Kaz is being an ASS thankyouverymuch
David, because this much social contact has him clawing at the walls
Ivan, because he's running late for his date w/his hubby and Fedor will cry :(
jokes on you OP Inej already broke - broke out, that is, in all the chaos