#probably unpopular

[the-dying-sun7]

I hate how so many therians/otherkins of tumblr often say stuff like 'those weird tiktok therians' . It's damaging for the community. Dam it, I'm on tumblr. Just because a therian/otherkin is on tt doesn't instantly mean they're faking, and think that therianthropy/ Otherkinity is just quads and having a connection to an animal. I get that tt is a problem, with quadrobists calling themselves therians, and not even bothering to explain what therianthropy is, if they even know. But it's ridiculous how divided we are. I've even seen this sort of stuff on reddit. I don't like it. Idrk if anyone disagrees, I know my own opinions, and I know that I have a point. I don't care if my opinions unpopular, but it needs to be said.

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

Jack calling David "Dave" is everything to me -- so casual, so familiar.

The name of the game is volume, Dave. Good idea, Dave. Dave, what the hell, did they bust up your brains or something?

So much better than "Davy."

[mycptsdstory]

Unpopular opinion.

(found this on twitter).

[flappingdragon]

Don’t get me wrong, I love the headcanon side of the obey me fandom, but y’all gotta stop making the gender-neutral readers act all “anime loli girl” and shit.

(Unpopular opinion under the cut)

I’m not saying this because I’m a guy, but I’m pretty sure most gender-neutral readers in the fandom aren’t helpless, shy, easily embarrassed, overly expressive, insecure, or the damsel in distress.

I feel like we need to normalize that not everyone has the same personality in this fandom. And don’t even try making the excuse “but I don’t know how to write (insert personality)”. YOU WILL NEVER LEARN IF YOU NEVER TRY!!

But seriously, stop making the readers the stereotypical feminine “anime loli girl” and start including more personalities UNLESS they specifically ask for the previously mentioned personality.

Also, here’s another VERY unpopular opinion:

Not every character is a top. Let them switch or bottom. For fucks sake, don’t be the common, basic, bottom bitch and consider a more versatile and open mind when it comes to characters

[torashisama]

WoT about: "The writers keep giving time to plots that aren't bad, but do nothing to actually serve the story".

Disclaimer : As always, it's long.

Alll of these comments are from a discussion I had with a book reader in the comments of a post on S3E01 being written by S1E06 and S2E07 writer: Justine Juel Gillmer. Basically, the original poster was celebrating more Siuan (however it might be) and/or a possible Siuanraine reunion in S3.

Book Reader 1:

In a story about the potential end of all things, I can't honestly say that I care about Suianraine. Side romance plots are fine, but they're not what WoT is really about. I hope they give a little ship time to those who are craving it, but they really need to work on the Nerf Reborn. He's way weaker in the show than he is in the books. We need a Rocky montage to put the Dragon back on track.

Book reader 2 :

One of my biggest issues with this show. The writers keep giving time to plots that aren't *bad*, but do nothing to actually serve the story.

Moiraines family scenes? Well written and acted, but that's 30-40 minutes that we could have had in Falme, or building up the Horn, or generally building the legend of the dragon.

Book reader 1 :

Yep. The show wastes precious time on things which aren't central to the plot.

Torashi :

That mostly has to do with the fact that the show is not about Rand but about Moiraine and specifically about Moiraine's Quest which is something that most book readers seems to have overlooked and that's the most important and fundamental change from the books yet it's overlooked when it comes to understanding how and why everything plays out the way it does.

If we had to choose a character and declare them the main one for the show, it would be Moiraine. That's the main difference that explains most of the complaints bookcloaks and book readers may have with the show.

The books are about Rand. Here, it's about "Moiraine's Quest", and it gives the show more room to explore the characters deemed as side characters and one of the most interesting group of people in this universe in my opinion: Aes Sedai's and their warders.

Both are telling the same story but not from the same POV, and that changes a bunch of things and it includes what gets showed or not.

Book reader 1 :

I certainly didn't overlook that the show is focused on Mo. That is the biggest problem, as you say (pre post edit: I did not say that the the Mo focus was a problem, never had actually) . Book Mo isn't anywhere near a main character after TEOTW, so it's a very questionable decision to promote her to a main, outside of real world "politics". Pike is the most recognized actress **and** she's a producer.

While I get that non-readers don't mind it, I and millions of other readers waited 39 years for the books to be turned into a show.

We weren't waiting on Siuan and Moiraine.

Torashi:

I'm not saying that you're overlooking this but that those who did read the books tends to do so and fail to realise( pre post edit: or recognise really) that the things they're complaining about usually makes sense as Rand is not the main character anymore.

The pov's are mostly Moiraine's, and while it's different from the books, it doesn't mean that it's not good. The story is just told differently, and a lot of you guys fail to realise that while it's not what you hoped for, you at least get to experience the same story told another way and in the same world you grew up loving but on screen.

I understand that it's disappointing as it's probably not what you guys imagined and expected the show would be if you ever got to see it, but Rand, as the main character, probably wouldn't have worked as needed exactly because it's been so long since the books.

The classic hero trope is not as appealing as it used to be for TV, and switching the focus and putting it onto the Gandalfs of the WoT world probably was better so it ended up as the Moiraine's Quest show and not as the Randland show. It's also probably because it's usually better if most actors in a fantasy show are unknown so that their reputation and previous roles do not taint the ones they'll have in the show.

( pre post edit : in case some people don't get why I'm comparing them, it's to emphasise that all of these fantasy shows have 1 or 2 of their main cast and characters as the biggest stars so that they don't have to rely only on the existing fandom but can also count on their main celebrity to bring a wider audience (advertising aside) which allows for the rest of the cast to be lesser known or straight-up debuting and/or unknown actors)

For ex, Matt Smith and Paddy Considine probably are the most recognisable actors of HOTD (HBO) and they're brothers in the show and have a close relationship ( in case you didn't see it, Matt is Daemon and Paddy is King Viserys)

WoT (Prime) has Rosamund Pike and Sophie Okonedo as their biggest star, and they have a close relationship.

(Fun fact : Sophie wasn't even supposed to be in the show and probably wouldn't have accepted if she was offered the part but Rosamund specifically wanted her to play her love interest and Sophie had to be written to personally by Ros so that she would accept the role ( anyone who knows or follows Sophie's work knows that her playing Siuan was as probable as a WoT + GoT crossover episode) )

The Witcher( Netflix) they really just needed Henry Cavill as he actually is a mainstream celebrity and was at the prime of his career when he took the role.

Good Omens (Prime) : David Tennant and Micheal Sheen, they lead and are close. ( they really could have been fine with David here. Actually, he probably has one of the most dedicated fan base I've seen because of his performance as the doctor ) ( they also have benedict cumberbatch but I'm sticking to mains biggest star + they're closest relationships )

Carnival Row (Prime and original so a lil different): Cara delevigne and Orlando Bloom, biggest stars + close relationship.

Good Omens is focused on the gandalfs ( Crowley & Aziraphale) again btw and it's one of amazon most successful adaptations.

The Witcher is also focused on the Gandalfs of their world: Geralt & Yennefer (by extension)

WoT switched it to be the same : Moiraine & Siuan (by extension).

What i'm saying is that basically most of the complaints are related to missing things from the books, the cast diversity, things people wish they could have seen or wishing Josha's (pre post edit :Rand) or Daniel's (pre post edit : Lan) characters where depicted as in the books or it's blaming the show (pre post edit: or really mainly and mostly Rafe and sometimes the rest of the writers) for spending time on things that actually makes sense when you recenter yourself in what the show is actually doing which is telling the story from Moiraine's POVs.

Siuan is important so she gets time, Lan is important so he gets time (pre post edit : mainly referencing the Aes sedai + Warder focused episodes of S1, from Ep4/5 to Ep6).

Liandrin is a problem and has a grudge against Mo that leads her to be a threat not only because she's a red and black ajah but also because of an ulterior reason so she gets time and is developed, Moiraine is pushing everyone away even the only 2 people she could allow herself to be close to during her mission because of her depression and allow herself no other choice but to go to Cairhien alone which happens to be her hometown so we get a family reunion and see how much her quest for Rand impacted her and her family too and how unusual it is even for an Aes sedai( Alanna's scenes with her family).

The main problem isn't that the story is being told through Moiraine's POV but that they only get 8 episodes of approximately 1 hour each to tell a story that required 14 books to finish, they clearly need more or longer episodes per season to include more of what they initially intended to put in each season. ( pre post edit : in case you didn't know Lan was supposed to start training the boys from s1. you can check here )

For reference, GOT had 10 episodes for each season until S7 for 8 season out of 10 initially planned, each episode falling anywhere between 1h and 1h22 max, and it's only 5 books out on 7 planned.

There, we have 8 episodes falling anywhere between 54 minutes to 1h10 min max each, planned to have 8 seasons for 14 books.

(Pre post edit : so far, and yes i went to check the longest ep so far was 1h10 min and it's s2 finale in case you were wondering)

Original poster reaction :

OMG!!! I wish I could give you gold for this comment. I am getting tired of when I post something about the show, instead of people focusing on the show, they wanna bring the "but but but the books did this and that and it is nowhere to be found on the show", like I don't care, let's focus on what's happening in the show and can we only talk about that? You should make another main post pointing this out and that for the sake of productive conversations, this sub should stop complaining about what isn't on the show from the books and more on what we actually get, if it works or not let's stick to that!

Torashi :

I understand, but I totally get their reaction, too. It's been so long for them that it's probably hard to accept anything else than what they expected or wished they had.

(pre post edit :

While i do understand the frustration, i do not understand why you think it makes it fine to ruin (or tarnish) the experience of genuine show only fans by complaining and shitting on the show for missing things or not doing it the way you wanted it to be instead of going:

"That's cool i wish they had room for this or that, in the books there's this or that and whatever, you should check the books."

"The story is so much more richer even though the focus is not on the guide in the books. It could be interesting for you to see it from another PoV too"

You'd actually make show-only fans want to read the books. You guys have been tainted by so much display of lack of respect and gratitude towards those making and/or enjoying the show that I think that you're actually deterring show only fans from the books by dividing the fandom as much as S8 divided GOT fans and by making people afraid to read them before the show ends because of how ugly your reactions are and have been. (You guys are literally associated to Whitecloacks).)

Torashi:

What's infuriating me, though, is that most of the books things they wish they saw when that's what they're complaining about are things that had to be cut because they were details and did not impact the rest of the story as much and instead of complaining about the show having an insane amount of episodes, episode's length and planned seasons for 14 books each individually as big as an encyclopedia they blame Rafe who actually loved the books and is a fan too, that's literally why the books got approved to be on screen. Rafe he's a book fan that got lucky the same way Brandon Sanderson was a book fan that got lucky back then. He probably wish he could put more things in there too.

Instead of complaining about the real problem, they should be battling against, its straight up hate (from bookcloaks) and endless complaints about things that does not matter as its really just "yes but in the books" for choices that does makes sense when they stop being Rand centric while watching a show that isn't about the hero's journey but about the Quest itself.

(Pre post edit thoughts:

Robert made a mistake by calling his books: The Wheel of Time ,to then make most of the pov's and most of the story revolve around a single character. He should have called it "The dragon Reborn" or something along those lines, because most of book readers' new complaints I've seen so far, really are just about it not being ridiculously focused on Rand's story or like the books when they know that this is not a "Randland" show but specifically one that corrects this major flaw from the books by using the only character close enough, interesting enough and refreshing enough to tell this story trought a different lense that allows more freedom to explore other "z-list"/ side characters who actually plays a role in all of this, it's actually painfull to see so many book readers fail to realise that Moiraine really is just the best character to tell this story as she actually knows what's going on behind the scene whereas Rand is just clueless.)

E.g: Rand apparently being powerless (or rather not as powerful as they wished he would be already).

Even though he was alone and in hiding for the last 6 months and only ever channelled because he lacked control and only got to Logain once, because he stayed close but still ignored him for as long as he could. Until he left with Selene to then be found by Mo, he still kills Ishy, Turak and his guards, takes the shield off Egwene (pre post edit: who's struggling btw) and looks like he doesn't even break a sweat.

Yet, all some book readers allow themselves to see is him being "powerless" because he didn't get a flashy 1vs1 against the bad guy even though it wouldn't makes sense with his current development (that was impacted by what ? Cuts because of time/budget constraints ) and Egwene literally is the strongest and most experienced of them all right now because of the Sanchean (pre post edit : the bright side of being a damane lol ) and is one of the most developed character of s2 from EF5 because of what needs to happen with Siuan at some point in S3 and where her (really theirs) story might be going.

(more on this topic here)

This ends here, feel free to share your opinion on this.

[trpiaep19]

Unpopular opinion:

What Theo did to the pack was worse than whatever Peter or any other villain did

Hear me out...

A lot of people talk about how Theo didn't deserve going to hell and that the pack forgave Peter and Deucalion (both of them tried to kill them more than once) but never truly forgave Theo and how it is not fair but I think they are forgetting that Theo didn't only try to kill them.

He planned the whole thing. He found every member's weakness and used it. He ripped the pack apart from the inside. He turned them all against each other and tried to take Scott's place as the Alpha. We don't really know what it did to the pack bonds.

Until Theo and even after him the pack could rely on each other. When Peter tried to kill them they had someone watching their backs. When Deucalion came along they could fight him off because they were together.

With Theo pulling the strings...

Theo killed his sister when he was nine years old and then spent a decade with the Dread Doctors, working for them, killing for them, bringing kids to them so they can turn them to chimeras. I think he was looking for the way out and he did so the only way he knew.

In the scene when Theo kills Scott you can see how much he hates the True Alpha. He is everything Theo never got a chance to be. He is a cheap knock-off of the supernatural creature, not even his heart is his own. He is a creature made from hate and rage and with his skills the pack couldn't just let him go. No one knows just how many packs he ruined before coming to Beacon Hills.

Don't get me wrong, I know the hell changed him. When Liam brought him back, it became clear that all he wanted to do was survive.

Scott couldn't save Theo because Theo would never let him. He resent him. In his eyes Scott was a do-gooder that didn't know anything about suffering.

Liam was the one who showed and taught him different ways. The beta with angry issues was one of the few people from the pack that knew how it feels to have the beast crawling at your skin and still chose to be good. So, Theo learnt.

I think that the pack forgave Theo eventually. Maybe it took years after the war or maybe he was forgiven even before Monroe fled Beacon Hills but I don't think they ever truly trusted him again. In their eyes he will always be a wild card. They don't know anything about his time with the Doctors and I think they don't even want to ask. Theo might become a pack ally, maybe even part of the pack, but he will never be truly trusted because what he was capable of doing and probably still is capable of doing and just chooses not to, makes him unreliable.

I hope this makes sense...

[femtransfan]

Unpopular opinion because someone left a comment on a fanfic that was out of left field

I don't think Striker's character was ruined, this was probably his arc for years.

[devzik]

If you think that a blind boy wouldn't be overly physically affectionate towards their significant other then here's your wake up call.

Also if you think that someone who (I'm pretty sure) doesn't even hug his sister would be the overly physically affectionate one then this is also your wake up call.

[lunaryuwu]

You know how there are *insert character here* x reader fanfics? As an aromantic that’s romance indifferent(if that’s how you call it), I’d rather have self insert fics where the reader gets to be friends with the character. Maybe this is an unpopular opinion idk but I really want to read fics like that. It would bless my soul.

[sunekichi]

Unpopular Opinions On Doraemon

if we take into account all the long 2d doraemon movies (so, excluding stand by me & its sequel), nobita and the windmasters (2003) is the best one by far. although i haven't watched them all yet, none of the others i have watched comes close to this one.

in general, i'm not a big fan of these movies where they go on adventures (the only one i absolutely loved and would watch again with no issues is nobita and the windmasters, maybe nobita's dorabian nights too). this is one of the reasons why i have watched stand by me 2 at least 7 times, despite its flaws. they should bring back short movies like dorami-chan: mini-dora sos!!! and nobita's night before a wedding (but possibly come up with new stories, that take place in the future, considering we already know this one by heart).

the art style they use for the 2005 anime is atrocious, they should have sticked with the one they used in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was so polished. well, with the 2018 animation update things only got worse. at least many of the episodes that came out between 2005 and 2017 were fun, but the recent ones are boring as fuck and most are just bad remakes of classic episodes.

saved the most important for last: some of the grown ass men in this fandom call shizuka a gold digger and they don't even know they're talking about. you've probably seen this image already, now tell me: what kinda power does gian have? because nowadays you have more chances of solving your problems with money, not violence (that's gonna get u in jail if anything). she didn't even need dekisugi's help with homework since her grades were pretty good as well. it's actually common for students to enjoy studying with their friends. and who are her other friends? exactly, 3 kids who couldn't care less about school, so no wonder she'd rather do her hw with dekisugi. also, what's wrong with a rich kid inviting his friends to his family trips? cuz if i recall correctly suneo always invited shizuka AND gian, never only shizuka. and that's bc those 2 are his closest friends. and let's not forget she married the guy who wasn't rich or good at school, which says a lot about her. mind u they got married when they were 24-25, doraemon had prolly been gone for a decade by that time (so she did not marry nobita for the fucking gadgets). she chose him over dekisugi, who had also proposed to her (the others hadn't, which makes sense bc it was always platonic what they had going on with her). this speaks volumes on her character i think, she could have had a flawless guy who works as a fucking astronaut (=💸) but she said no.

i would like to know if y'all agree, especially abt the last one. my other opinions i know are quite controversial: idgaf. and i might make a part 2 cuz why not!

[theoculus124]

I remember seeing a post where people were saying that Tao's hair in season 2 got "sorted out" cause they didn't like it in season 1 but personally I prefer Tao's hair in season 1 with the beanie cause A) safe item B) it feels individual to Tao's character and idk I just prefer that but apparently that might be an unpopular opinion lol

Also I head cannon Tao as a he/they autistic and honestly I feel like that suits him v well

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

"You wanna bust your other leg too?" is such a fucking shitty thing to say, Jack! This is Crutchie's life. His livlihood. He understands the stakes better than anyone.

I only have one good eye (sort of good? let's just say one eye i can use to do my job that gets me paid) and YES I've been like this my whole life and YES I'm still very sensitive about it. It is not fodder for friendly jokes. If a person I loved and trusted said something like this to me, I would lose it.

[chaoticwhisperedthoughts]

Barbie unpopular (?) opinion

I'm gennuing curious if it's just me or in the Princess and The Pauper movie the couples just give a polyam vibe?

Don't get me wrong, it is cute, I'm not gonna lie, and it does look like two friends that decided to have that especial moment togheter. But at the same time it looks like all four of them are a thing, because even thought King Dominick is from another kingdon and Erika decided to travel for who knows how long (maybe they said how long, but I can't remember) they still marry togheter with Annelise and Julian. Besides this they are going on their honeymoon togheter (it never says that exactly, but the fact that the four of them are in the same carriage makes it look like that). Them we have the cats, who end the movie togheter and with a bunch of kittens, and unless Annelise and Erika plan to do a parent trap 2.0 I can't see them sapareting Serafina and Wolfie nor one of them leaving the cat's behind for long (I know that Erika left Wolfie while she was travelling, but I can't picture her leaving him forever with someone else).

I remember seeing something about this a few years ago, but I didn't pay any atention at the time, also I know these are loose and vague points, but lately it has been bugging me and I wanted to know if I just had to much free time or what.

[bleedingbloody]

Heres the deal. Alternative subcutures have very quickly stopped being about rebellion and music (at least in america) and has turned into almost every other brand name centric tiktok aesthetic based fashion trend.

Its now less about diy and music then it is about shopping at fucking dollskill and buying demonias. Like i get it ok? I own a pair of demonias and love them so im not saying dont buy them but less and less people are dying there thrift clothes and making there own patches. Its no longer about diy and music but more about how alt you look and where you shop. Can we please bring back dying your shit black in a bucket outside? Dying your own hair in the bathroom? Using saftey pins to spice up your clothes?? Im so tired of people making alt into this bullshit rich people trend. I see people dressed more extremely covered in expensive hot topic jewlery claim that others who dont buy that shit arent alt.

[the-dawn-star]

10 more of my possible unpopular TVDU opinions…

CW/TW: Racism mentioned, suicide as a topic in the shows. 

I know nothing about the writers of these shows, but I assume that they have made some of the bad decisions degrading the shows! I don’t know ANYTHING about the production of anything, the opinions below are solely based on what I see on screen: THESE ARE MY OPINIONS AND YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT ONES AND THAT’S OKAY! 

-S

1.I hate the way Legacies changed the magic, or more like how the magic looks like. I loved the way how magic was kind of low-key in the TVD and TO but Legacies changed it to be a bit more childish. (Also, I heard that Legacies introduced Gods to the universe, and I cannot fathom how the lore got to that point.)

2. Like all of the people in the universe are horrible people and you still liking the more problematic characters are fine as long as you acknowledge that the characters are problematic. In this fandom you kind of need to pick whose problematic behavior you choose to ignore, and once again it’s fine as long as you realize that. 

3. Season 7 of TVD had so much potential and at the start I really liked the first(-ish) half of the season. The heretics were really cool and I really liked their characters but the longer the season went on the less I liked it. (The heretic girls were really nice.)

4. It’s really weird how a lot of vampire media focuses on the fact that vampires can’t have biological children. In TVD there are multiple scenes that focus on the fact that Elena being a vampire fucks her life up because she can’t have biological children. I don’t know if this is the writers telling the viewer that they don’t see non-bio parents as real parents or the writers just trying to make poorly made conflicts or something. 

5. It’s really weird, how the Mystic Falls gang is so against any of the villains killing anyone, but then are completely happy to kill like thousands of vampires just because they needed to do their own thing with the hunter’s mark and all. Like Jeremy killed so many people and they never had a moment of like “hey, us killing possibly thousands of innocent vampires because of Elena isn’t a good thing”.

6. I don’t hate Matt Donavan (at least not all the time). At first, he was an okayish character and his actions made sense because of what had happened to his loved ones and because he was a child. But I couldn’t stand him when he became a cop and started to be the number one supernatural hater. 

7. Finn’s character is tragic but no one seems to see that. The man lost two of his siblings, got turned into a vampire against his will, got locked in a box for 900 years, was ready to die and died like twice (I think). And it seems like none of his siblings really cared for him, which is stupid when the siblings whole thing is the importance of family. 

8. I’m sad that we barely see Marcel being a part of the Mikaelson family (Even in flashbacks.) I get that they had their own problems to deal with but still. I have two theories of why Marcel was treated as he was: 1. Racism 2. Writers not seeing non-biological families as real families. (It’s most likely a bit of both, in my opinion.)

9. I still don’t understand how at the end of season 8 everyone became humans again. (I have no interest in going back to watch how it happened.) 

10. TW: Suicide!! I hate the fact that TVDU sees someone commiting suicide/letting themselves to be killed as okay because “they sacrificed themselves for someone else/the greater good”.

[evan4ever]

Gonna make someone angry for this (kidding) but…….. I’m not attracted to Tate.

Actually to be completely honest, I can’t stand him 😂. Like of course it’s Evan, so he’s hot, but I’m not attracted to him lol. Maybe because he’s also supposed to be like 17 or whatever and is kind of a brat 🤣 I don’t know!!! I just can’t stand him and I scroll so fast past most Tate fics and cringe at myself while writing any LOL don’t hate me it’s just my truth 🙈🥲

And that just goes to show how truly great of an Actor Evan is to make some people love his characters while others can’t stand them.

That’s t a l e n t