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First thoughts on the new season.

Spoilers for Wednesday s2 pt 1 under the cut.

I still feel Catherine Zeta Jones as Morticia doesn't work.

I am 50/50 on Joanna Lumley as Grandmama. I know the various Addams iterations have gone back and forth as to if she is an Addams or a Frump and since they've basically thrown out everything about her character, it feels less insulting that they've made her a Frump.

I hate that they recast Lurch, hopefully its because the other actor had another job and not because they just decided to.

Fester is excellent, pitch perfect, spot on. Which surprised me, because ...

They're retconning season one stuff already. "Mrs. Thornhill first normie teacher at Nevermore!" except apparently for one who taught Weems and Morticia and ran the local looney bin. Season 1 was very clearly fall semester, but surprise they're returning after winter break to ... fall semester and apparently were off for summer break. Ophelia hall and yet now they're making a big deal of Ophelia Frump. I get that with Netflix you always prepare to not get more than one season but c'mon. C'mon. They had to know (except i am expecting laziness with this writing team) that Ophelia Frump was out there for the using so maybe don't call the dorm hall that. If her sister is such a sore spot for Morticia why would she be happy in a hall that everyday reminded her of her? If they wanted a female relative that is already established if they're going to throw characterization out, they could have used the marriage crazy (cousin? sister? I can't recall) one from the original TV show.

It is kind of crazy that the hair and make up team is more dedicated to consistency to season 1 than the writers. The Furs, other than all the treatments Enid, still all have frizzy curly hair.

And I am very annoyed that the villain of the first half was blatantly obvious between the casting and the intro. It just felt lazy, and the red herrings were insultingly obvious. Even the conclusion was lazy. It was the Age of Ultron of Wednesday, meant to set up what came next and generally weak on its own. And why does she care about Galpin and investigative photographer dude? Because of a secret murder board that she doesn't even know about? Full of publicly available records. Who cares if a disgraced former cop starts shouting accusations, he let his son go on a murder spree. Apparently her father didn't pass on any brains to her.

I am happy that last season's competent deputy got the sheriff role and that we are seeing more of Thing. And Enid making Thing a place of his own was a nice touch, very Enid.

And I can understand, going back to that laziness, the introduction of invisible girl. She is a excellent shortcut from plot point A to needed scene B. She is a convenient shortcut for tension between Enid and Wednesday.

But ... I am both insanely amused and heartily disappointed by the way they are showing the Wednesday and Enid friendship.

Wednesday is written like a "fell in love with a straight girl" "acts of service" baby lesbian. "I will spend all of my energy to protect her but refuse to talk to her". "My sole driving force is her and yet I will give all of my attention to another to avoid telling her." Like, when do you drop to a knee and swear an oath to her on your blade girlie? And Enid, as the girl at the center of the longing trope, and fulfilling her role to a T, is wistfully telling everyone else about how she misses her friend. Honestly, I would not be surprised to hear about a fic writer (or 20) suing them for stealing things wholesale.

But it is also maddening, not because it is a played out cliche, but because it feels like an excuse to keep them apart and stop the super gay reading of them that happened with the way season 1 presented them. Like, yes it is still kinda lezzie feeling from Wednesday's side but they are really making an effort to keep from having any interactions or scenes that might feed more into that, with the exception of one line from Enid immediately followed up by having her make out with some fugly dude. When they are on screen together up pops invisible girl.

And one more thing about invisible girl: how is she the stalker at the end of season 1? She's 13 right? That means she is a froshling just starting out at Nevermore. She would have still been in class in middle school somewhere else at the end of last season when Wednesday got the phone and got the messages. And, I attended an academy that had a middle school and a high school, they are physically separated (for safety reasons) and need more building space than we are shown Nevermore having, especially as a boarding school. If there is a middle school on the grounds it is far enough away that she couldn't have made it over to spy on Xavier to spy on Wednesday. And how would she have even known to spy on Xavier to find out he was going to get Wednesday a phone to get its number? If the middle school and high school are blended, then why were there no middle schoolers in season 1? And would you really want 12yr old middle schoolers at a dance with high school seniors? Really? Really?

Why not just make her some random sophomore that didn't interact with Wednesday in season 1 and became obsessed after? Why state she is 13? It makes no sense except as a way to try and keep people from shipping her with Wednesday, who is what? 16? Do they really think 13 going on 14 and 16 don't actually date in actual high schools in actual life? Because it happens. All the time. And really, what else is invisible girl's obsession supposed to read as if not vaguely or explicitely homoerotic? They're *teenagers*. The horny teen cliches exist for a reason.

And the Bianca storyline. With the way they ended s1 and the little talk when Wednesday arrived at school then the smirk when Wednesday burned the painting for Bianca to *not* go to Wednesday over Dort's manipulations makes no sense. Wednesday probably would have encouraged Bianca to siren song her mother but at least have Bianca going to Wednesday to talk first. And Bianca knows Wednesday would love an excuse to dig into and expose an authority figure. Again, that laziness in the writer's room rearing its shitty head.

And, just as a thing that bugged me in season 1 that the intro of "davincis" in s2 brought back: are Frumps the only psychics without telekinesis? Rowan was psychic with telekinesis. Xavier is psychic with art specific telekinesis. Wednesday ... gets seizures.

And for some reason they paled out Wednesday this season (and redesigned the quad).

Look, season 1 was awash in shitty writing and laziness but there was still a zinginess from the atmosphere and the relationships and the cast. Now the relationships are half there and the new cast are half-assed. Buscemi is playing himself, the new wolf boy is fuglier than Ajax, the new Lurch is too well fed.

And I really don't like the increase in the rest of the family on screen. If it is going to be an Addams Family show then it should have been an Addams Family show. If it is called Wednesday, it should be about Wednesday.

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And because I clicked into one FB article about a Utah white dude being horrible, FB shared another.

Oh look, someone helping cartels and, just like drug dealers these days, it's a rich white dude.

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In case you were wondering what is going on in the US these days.

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In case you were wondering what is going on in the US these days.

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How is the writing both better and worse than season 1?

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THEY RECAST LURCH!!!!

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what if we were ibuprofriends :)

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As I get glimpses of people's fanfics for KPDH I feel like there is a crucial thing that is being missed about Zoey's background by non-USians and many USians not from areas where it happens: the US does not have an official language and assimilation isn't mandatory.

English is the common language of the US but despite what white supremacists think it is not mandated. That means there are pockets of the country where, if you never leave your area, you do not ever have to speak English. I grew up going to a Cantonese school on Saturdays. Not "teach you Cantonese" but "we assume you speak it and we're just polishing it and expanding your vocabulary". (My mother was from the generation that chose full assimilation and refused to speak it at home so it ended up being a waste of time and money but i digress.)

If I had grown up an hour north of where I did I would have been able to attend full school in Cantonese or Mandarin and only spoken English at home. There are now schools where I grew up that are fully in Cantonese or Mandarin. The greater Los Angeles area, where Zoey grew up, has Korean schools formatted much like the one I had on weekends. Los Angeles has a large Korean population (if you want a darker look at this look up the 1992 los angeles riots). That means all the groceries, the foods, the cultural holidays, the religious options, many, many faces that looked just like hers.

Even where I was, technically a Phillipino area but very heavily Chinese in the surrounding neighborhoods, very early in elementary school I had homemade kimchi made by a classmate's grandmother (it was wildly popular) and I was at a majority white population school. And one could go to the store and find all the Korean snacks.

So Zoey would very much have not felt out of place growing up due to her heritage. There would be zero culture shock around language, food, lunar holidays, music, etc when she moved to Korea. She even would have grown up with hints of the political tensions between East Asian countries.

And even when there were racial issues where she grew up, they all happened before she was born. The difference of the 70s/80s/90s vs this millenium for Asians in even California is noticeable. I wasn't unusual in my area for being Chinese, I was unusual for being a halfbreed. But let me tell you, the number of mix kids being born skyrocketed in the late 90s. So even if you go with the take that Zoey is a mix kid (which her character design seems to hint at) she is young enough even that wouldn't be an issue. Even if she had grown up in Dallas, TX instead of Burbank, CA she wouldn't stand out and would have grown up with the language, the foods, and other people who looked like her.

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I see you are all refusing to tag your spoilers.

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HELLENISTIC GOLD RING WITH GALLEY GEMSTONE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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Okay, the Japanese VA for Zoey is amazing.

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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I have said it before and I will say it again: superiority is worthless.

If you need to feel superior to everyone you encounter people are going to cross the street to avoid you and leave you to your incel, fascist ways. I have all my fic on AO3 locked to users only to avoid AI scraping but also to stop lazy bastards from finding any of them to play idiot with.

You do not want to go toe to toe with me on something I have put work into, I guarantee you it will not go well for you. I have thrown punches IRL with people trying to trample me, typing and clicking to do it is nothing. I am powered by spite.

If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

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