Janaya completely carried the first half hour of VHS Christmas Carols and it’s not getting talked about enough.
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I'm still working on the recap for "Rude, Red, and Royal" so I obviously won't be writing up today's episode yet (which oddly doesn't have a title on Crunchyroll), but uh... it sure was a thing!
I've got a lot to say about the lampshading of major writing issues, straight up ignoring the Salem question for the fourth Volume in a row, the girls' messy visions, and the cat interrupting Ruby's internal conflict right as we were getting somewhere. However, what really stood out to me was the framing of Ruby's hardships like some inevitability, as if she's a Chosen One forced by fate to suffer through the Salem crisis, and not a teenager who literally wrested that responsibility from others.
Hey, vision!Ruby? You're thinking of Ozpin. Like, for real. The character whose unwanted responsibility it is to make things better, the one who the whole world depends on, forced into an unambiguously unfair fight against an immortal monster forever and ever and ever? That's Ozpin. The story gave that role to Ozpin, not our protagonist, which remains a BIG problem for the heart of the story. Ruby is not the one cursed by the Gods and trapped in an endless cycle of pain, suffering an obvious personal loss due to the Big Bad (because lbr we only found out last season that Salem even knew who Summer was and we still don't know whether she actually killed her). Ruby chose this, she demanded it, and she's been at it for... a couple of months? At most? Yeah, can we give this vision to the guy who's been at it for literal lifetimes after watching all four of his daughters burn to death instead? Give Ruby something that actually reflects her struggles and mistakes.
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the house of the dragon writers attempt at making this show "feminist" in some capacity was so condescending. showing rhaenyra as the 'rightful queen' by sticking a magic stag in front of her but never actually showing her having any ability to rule. making her competition for the throne a pathetic rapist to force the audience onto her side. taking away All of Alicents agency instead of investing in the ways she was absolutely justified in her fears and actions. there's nuggets of pure gold but im digging through shite to find them.
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Something I desperately need in s5 is Will constantly throwing himself into to danger and practically sacfricong himsekf for other sake.
All the while Mike is begging him not to and when confronted about it he says « because i cznt lose you, Will! Dont you understand »- HOLY FUCK KEIEUOZIHVDDODI
SPREADING MY BYLER PUSH-PULL AGENDA 🤞
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