#wednesday rant

Hi, this is a big maybe, and just...you know, a rant. I rant a lot, so go ahead and read or ignore this, your choice.

Wednesday series in Netflix is an alright show. The plot is eye catching, a murder mystery and a whodunit, though those are always debatable because unless done extremely well then expect tomatoes to be thrown (by me, I like mysteries). The pacing in both seasons are...questionable. The story is good. Not excellent but good enough.

Now with all of those in mind, why do the viewers love the Wednesday series? Especially season 1? Is it the hype? The random TikTok edit that suddenly blew up that matched the dance move with a song? The amount of lgbtq+ viewers reeled in by that one photo with a certain hashtag? The romance? The awful love triangle that was uninteresting? The two old white males' attempt to write 'sisterhood' and bland relationships?

Maybe, but if we're being serious...

It's the characters. There are an array of them, and each one are interesting and different from each other to a fault, and what made them interesting are their relationships with each other and how they all collide. Most don't watch Wednesday to only see the plot or the mystery. Season 1 of Wednesday was full of different characters, for some who already knows the Addams Family, there is nostalgia, an anticipation and a glare to the writers that says 'You better do well', and for the newer and younger audience to which the series caters to, it's a show about a strong girl who is different in the middle of teenage chaos and murders. For them, it's a gold mine, some look up to this character and think it's their new personality. Some look up to other characters in the show and do the same. Why? Because there are a lot of interesting characters that are lovable.

We were then given three full years to do as we please, to create a fictional world with the characters that were given, nobody forced us, but that's what happens with these things. We start creating worlds where we create a situation, put the characters in, and wonder how they would react. There are many situations to choose from. Many content just waiting to be written and enjoyed.

The problem is that when they dropped season 2, people started to argue.

"This character isn't like this. This character isn't that. Wednesday doesn't feel the same anymore"

My honest opinion? Maybe, in those three years, most people have built their own characterizations of these characters. Characters that were never fleshed out completely, and so we, ourselves as individuals start to fill up the holes and build characters that will never align to what the series' intent for the characters are going to be. And somehow, most of you are annoyed at that.

But that's the problem. We have an IDEA of these characters, not them as a whole. I think it's always important to remember that.

So while the characters make mistakes, the best I do is squint my eyes and wonder why and where they are going. Sure, I can always chuck it up to terrible writing, and two old white males just really obsessed with love triangles, but where's the fun in that? Understanding Wednesday's one track minded blaze towards mysteries and the macabre, Enid's reliance on others to be deemed as 'normal' and new progress to popularity and her pack, Tyler's trauma and how it affects him as a whole, Eugene's sudden rise from being quiet and bullied to being in the same sentence as Wednesday's name, Bianca's mother issues and how her relationship with Xavier and her mother affected how she sees herself being a siren, Pugsley's entrance to a new school and being entirely lost but wanting to do something, Agnes being a freshman and of course looking up to a senior who has done something so amazing in her eyes that she'll do anything for them, and The Addams Family as a whole that is somehow changed which I of course hate but what can I do about it? Nothing. Like damn, grandmama was just supposed to be a funny cackling old lady with a cane and the will to somehow avoid death in her age but sure, make her sexy for no fucking reason. And have a Lurch named...Varicose.

And there are still many characters to plow through, hell, most of the things I've listed are just minute details. Some of the arcs are being written terribly, like Eugene's for example, we are left to wonder why he suddenly became like that but they expect us to connect the dots and just continue on, and that's fine, there's already too much going on to watch a twenty minute story arc of why Eugene suddenly became like that.

My point is, maybe - this is a very big maybe. We are annoyed at how the writers are doing things because we as the viewers who watched season 1, and some who watch it to reminisce the Addams Family, just isn't going where we want the characters to be going. And that's okay. We can't be at fault for having building worlds only for the canon to rip it apart, but these are characters that are still being fleshed out and for all we know, the writers do not know where to put either.

For short, it's not your fault for being annoyed, but please, jesus, can people just shut the fuck up with all of the "I hate this. I hate that" do you even like anything. (This was put here as a joke)

Yes, I rant a lot, if you go to my Tumblr profile, there's like five rants back to back. Or maybe six.

But listen, it's fine to be annoyed. I personally think that most of the Jenna and Wednesday S2 hate are from bots actually, I just watched an Ai voice over in a YouTube short, rolled my eyes, and scrolled.

Even I'm not sure what they're about to do with Wednesday anymore and where her arc is going, but I'm watching for the sake of writing fanfiction because it's a good practice exercise for my sanity and to see if I'm really committed to writing, so that is my personal reason. But I understand that I am only watching an idea of them and I'll be left to fill the holes if questions aren't answered by the storyline. I'm sure there are a lot of people with different reasons, but I think it's the main reason why people are annoyed at the series right now.

content warnings/spoiler warnings time!

spoiler warnings for wednesday s2!

content warnings for talk of death, mentions of inc3st jokes, mentions of asylums

if i missed any cws lmk please and ty