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Feb. 28th, 2022 03:25 amYou ever wait what feels like an acceptable amount of time to watch something (not too long but not immediately as it comes out), watch it, and then poke fandom to see what's going on, only to wonder WTF is wrong with humanity?
I know. I do it far too often, honestly.
This week we'll babble about Arcane, which finally hit Netflix last November after keeping me waiting for three years.
Three. Years.
I wound up getting to see the first episode and then bits of a couple of the others back before COVID was even a glimmer in anyone's eye. I might've mentioned it, vaguely, at the time, because even with the measures taken to ensure no one recorded and shared without immediately getting hit with a lawsuit, it caught my interest. And it was clearly pretty far in development and I think possibly had a release date at that point? Or got one shortly thereafter, anyway.
And then COVID hit and a whole slew of delays basically conspired to keep me waiting. I finally heard it was coming out but not all at once, so I waited until it was all released. And then Ozma died and I was not in the headspace for something that I was fairly sure would emotionally suckerpunch me at every turn.
It did, btw.
( Arcane. )
I am old as fuck because I remember people having similar issues with "but if the villain can love then they aren't a villain anymore!" bullshit in the Buffy days. No, you can still be a villain while loving someone. It just adds depth to your character, it doesn't redeem you and wash away your sins and faults. How do people still not get this?
And yes, I realize this argument wasn't new then either.
Kind of want to keep poking fandom to find better takes and maybe get past all the weird character x reader fic that has never and will never be my jam in any fandom. But I'm also very tired right now so maybe I should just go back to bed.
I know. I do it far too often, honestly.
This week we'll babble about Arcane, which finally hit Netflix last November after keeping me waiting for three years.
Three. Years.
I wound up getting to see the first episode and then bits of a couple of the others back before COVID was even a glimmer in anyone's eye. I might've mentioned it, vaguely, at the time, because even with the measures taken to ensure no one recorded and shared without immediately getting hit with a lawsuit, it caught my interest. And it was clearly pretty far in development and I think possibly had a release date at that point? Or got one shortly thereafter, anyway.
And then COVID hit and a whole slew of delays basically conspired to keep me waiting. I finally heard it was coming out but not all at once, so I waited until it was all released. And then Ozma died and I was not in the headspace for something that I was fairly sure would emotionally suckerpunch me at every turn.
It did, btw.
( Arcane. )
I am old as fuck because I remember people having similar issues with "but if the villain can love then they aren't a villain anymore!" bullshit in the Buffy days. No, you can still be a villain while loving someone. It just adds depth to your character, it doesn't redeem you and wash away your sins and faults. How do people still not get this?
And yes, I realize this argument wasn't new then either.
Kind of want to keep poking fandom to find better takes and maybe get past all the weird character x reader fic that has never and will never be my jam in any fandom. But I'm also very tired right now so maybe I should just go back to bed.