#August's letter was a retcon and didn't make sense to his character and it would have been a much better plot device for Wilhelm

[andyouloveme]

Um, hi.

I sent you one, but want to know this one too.

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

Ooooh my most unpopular opinion is probably the Wilhelm decided to give up the crown for himself. (Don't hate me 🙈)

I actually think they laid the foundations for this well but it jumped from from foundation to roof with no walls supporting it in between. We have multiple moments of Wille demonstrating lack of control and opinion on his own life (no tattoos, his hair*, charity selection picked out for him etc). It never occurs to him he can give up rowing until Simon suggests it and when he does, he takes up singing, which he doesn't like, to hear Simon sing (I won't lie I fucking melted at this tho it was so cute). But outside of Simon, Wille doesn't know what he wants and doesn't show much interest in figuring it out. All he wants is Simon and he centers his life around this.

I know many will say giving up his role is the first step in learning about himself and what he wants but that already happened in S2. In S2 he was already prepared to give up the crown for Simon so S3 should have continued to develop on him learning about himself, understanding his privilege and what he actually wants from life outside Simon. The letter to your future self was a missed opportunity imo.

*bonus unpopular (or silly) opinion is this line annoys me an unreasonable amount cause it's just not true. He says he can't cut his hair shorter than this but we literally see Erik with shorter hair?? and Wilhelm would have had to cut it shorter when he joined the military?? Like all they had to say was something like same reason I can't dye my hair weird colours! Why did they choose a line that's simply not true??