Kaz telling Inej ‘Hope is Dangerous. It clouds your judgement’ when he’s been searching for her family is FUCKing insane. He’s scared he’s going to fail at finding them and he can’t bare for Inej to loose her brother the way he lost Jordie. She still has that hope and it sounds like he’s knocking her down and telling her to expect the worse when really he’s probably trying to soften the blow incase he does find her brother and he’s dead and Kaz will be the one to tell her. To be there for her.
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Imma be fr, and some of y’all gonna think I’m tripping but Six of Crows should’ve never been merged with Shadow and Bone.
I love the crows. My favorite character in the entire show is Jesper and I genuinely think the Six of Crows duology is better than the Shadow and Bone trilogy. Everything about it was better to me. When I finished the S&B trilogy, I was happy. When I finished the SOC duology, I was sad because it was over. I was gonna miss my little pookie bears. That’s why it irritates me how their story is sped up in the show.
I get it. The show is called Shadow and Bone, so the story is mainly gonna focus on Alina. My thing is, why bring the crows if you couldn’t put a bunch of focus on them? Their story feels so rushed sometimes and I was honestly thrown off at some points. I feel like it doesn’t entirely work because the books take place years after Alina destroys the fold, so the things they do may not connect with her story. Season 1 they didn’t do much besides Nina and Matthias. They want Alina, they fail, they assist in a fight, that’s it. In season 2 Matthias stays in jail the entire time because they couldn’t do the actual plot of SOC because it’d be extremely rushed. Or maybe they didn’t do it so it didn’t take away attention from the S&B plot. To be honest, when I found out they were merging S&S and R&R, I wasn’t a huge fan. I was gonna say that if they spread it out, the ice court job could’ve been season 2 and Crooked Kingdom could’ve been season 3, but how much time passed in the books? In SOC Matthias has been in prison for at least a year I believe. That’s another problem, the timing has to match Alina’s story. They can’t do too much.
Also I didn’t like that Jesper and Wylan got together. I don’t mean this because I don’t think they’re cute. I love those two, but they get together towards the end of Crooked Kingdom. Them getting together so soon felt rushed and unnecessary. I guess they have the excuse of “oh, well they met before. They slept together” but lust and love are two completely different things. They had time to build up to this in the books. They’re cute in the show, but it don’t feel the same. The flirting, the teasing, the tension, the jealousy, I just feel like it would hit more if they weren’t together yet.
Also Pekka? In Crooked Kingdom, that man was a menace. How is he gonna be a menace if he’s locked up like Akon? He was a free man doing wild shit. He and Fuck Ass Van Eck turned Ketterdamn against the crows. Now I’m sure they’ll find a work around, but why do any of that when we could’ve just did the actual story? And honestly, I was shocked Kaz actually told Inej about his brother. Since we’re on that though, him defeating Pekka was so satisfying because we hated Pekka since SOC. We don’t know why Kaz can’t stand him in the first season, I’m pretty sure we find out in SOC but I could be wrong. I still think his downfall shouldn’t have been immediate.
It’s late and I got shit to do tomorrow so imma leave it here but I genuinely think they should’ve gotten their own show so they had proper pacing and time to shine. They shine even now but their own show would’ve ate.
I also think we could get another Kaz fights the Dregs scene. They could turn on him again if Jan Van Eck were to offer Per Haskell enough money. Heck Pekka could even be involved still. We all know he’s getting out of Hellgate and he’ll want revenge too. Give me the stairs fight- like real stairs not the three steps in the little bar area- I want to watch Kaz kick people down them. Give me Kaz fighting with literal nails that he swiped from an axe handle mid fight- Give me Inej barely restraining herself as she watches from the ceiling- “She’d kill them all. She’d pile the bodies to the rafters for the stadwatch to find.” Give me Kaz knowing Inej is there, making eye contact and ever so slightly shaking his head- Give me Kaz smearing blood across his face and smiling at Per Haskell- Give me something that is five times more spectacular than his little fight in season 2- Give me a SoC spin-off so I can have my Crows in all their glory—
Whenever I imagine the tank scene in Six Of Crows and the silly little crows are hanging off the side of the tank, I always picture kaz jumping to where Inej is standing and he stares up at her and she stares down at him, smiling at one and other because holy shit they just DID THAT and all these two idiots can do is gaze at one and other
They've not only had the SoC script, they even had one for Demon in the Wood
How do you plan on two spinoffs and cancel everything???
I'm saying this again
Netflix doesn't even WANT successful shows that have a bit of effort and skill put into them cause they don't want to pay for it
They rather produce trash and hope it takes off instead of investing into things that are actually promising and full of potential and have ppl who care, working on it