#ill never be over it
Landon when the writers won’t let him react realistically to anything when he’s been going through hell for 2 seasons straight
I hate twitter because I’m sitting here watching Hermes drama unfold in the FFXIV twitter fandom and there aren’t enough characters in a fucking tweet for me to explain that 90% of people who aren’t interested in Hermes are not interested becausehis character was badly under-developed and the writers themselves couldn’t remember the lore about creation magic enough to keep his plot-line straight, notbecause of other reasons like shipping or being unable to empathize with depressed people.
Like how to condense “In creating deliberate distinction between Amon/Fandaniel and Hermes, the writers created two different characters and left bothof them without satisfying character development or logical motivations, particularly robbing Hermes of any chance of connecting to the majority of the audience by distinguishing him from both a fan favorite (Fandaniel) and the dark horse call-back reference (Amon), leaving him as a brand-new character whose entire arc was crammed into thetwo-levelspan of the Elpis zone and then grossly overshadowed by the presence of the much beloved Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus AND THEN by the Azem!Venat reveal.
NOT TO MENTION that the writers didn’t bother to draw clear distinctions between when creations have souls and when they don’t, leading 90% of Hermes’ core internal drama–that the ancients were killing living beings with souls completely callously–as a giant question mark in the minds of those who followed the earlier lore that creations don’t have souls except by pure accident or eventual successful generations of natural breeding. Hythlodaeus, the guy who can literally see souls, says the creations don’t have souls and then five quests later Hermes cries over the lykaones’ souls. The souls that… lore says they don’t have… How are fans supposed to 110% empathize with a character when the writers can’t even keep their own lore straight on a key point of that character’s motivation???
And this is also completely ignoring the fact that people might dislike the character because he’s written to be exceedingly hypocritical (honestly probably the best part of his writing), claiming that he’s loath to bind another being to his will and then shooting his million identical bird daughters into space without a single thought for their safety simply to satisfy his own desire…
On occasion it is true that the fandom loves or hates a character based on whether they make a great ship with another fan favorite, but 90% of the time, even if they can’t articulate their reasons, when viewers are failing to fully embrace a character its because the writers messed up somewhere, and this is absolutely the case with Mr. Hermes Endwalker.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.” into 280 characters?
I hate it, please everyone in the FFXIV fandom come to tumblr instead.
Oh god no wait please don’t there are so many scary people on twitter.
It is SO funny to me that when we first meet Emet-Selch he is this over the top theatrical fruit who brags about plotting things every waking moment of the day and acts like he’s gonna break into a musical number about burning people alive but the more you dig you realize he is ultimately a Sad Clown who fosters this over the top behavior to both cope with all the shit he has to do to bring his people back and also to get people to utterly despise him so he doesn’t have to feel too guilty about causing a major apocalyptic event every century
And THEN you get to Elpis and realize this sad theatrical clown was originally the depressed friend of two friendly wise cracking clowns who did everything they could to help people no matter what and gradually got everyone else to see him how they saw him, a genuinely good and kind but reserved and sullen man who just wanted to be left ALONE (but not really), who jumped at the call whenever his friends were in danger and pretty much did whatever they asked of him with mild grousing.
Emet Selch’s transformation from ‘grumpy friend of two extrovert do gooders who is just as much of a do gooder as them but doesn’t wanna make it like OBVIOUS or anything’ into 'theatrical megalomaniac villain who will commit whatever atrocities necessary to bring his people and his world back but has slowly come to recognize the futility of his cause and is so fucking lonely he just wants to die but he can’t because the hopes of his entire civilization rest on his shoulders’ after his world falls apart and two best friends die horrible deaths.
Like I say it’s funny but bitch this shit is SAD!
TheWarehouse 13 fandom welcomes the Stranger Things fandom with open arms over the shared trauma of “Running Up That Hill.”
Do you know what we were robbed of? We were robbed of that moment where the team gets a phone call from one of the ranger station along the Appalachian Trail - almost a decade after they worked the case - where they are told that they have Shane Wyland in custody.
Can you imagine the relief that the team would have felt? How from the moment Emily hung up the phone she would call Morgan and Hotch and tell them the news. Imagine how the new members of the team wouldn’t quite understand the reactions, but also feel their own relief at the knowledge that he had been arrested.
WE DESERVED SOMETHING! THEY DESERVED SOMETHING!
I think it’s beautiful how the whole fandom decided to basically ignore everything that happened in The Magicians since Quentin’s death and live on Queliot headcanons instead. I have to admit it, I rather like our version of the events in which Quentin lives and gets to be Eliot’s boyfriend, Alice has a proper storyline outside being Q’s love interest, the others are safe and together, they all live happily ever after and Sera Gamble and the others showrunners can go fuck themselves and maybe learn to write a show decently.
