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The thing about so many people being mad at Izzy's death is that they have no fucking media literacy.
Did it make you sad? Does it feel unfair?
YEAH! THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT!
It is sad. It's unfair, even.
But what it's NOT is bad writing or "bury your gays" or cruel to the viewers.
You dumb shits.
"But Izzy is disabled!" So are Lucius and Ed.
"But Izzy was suicidal!" So was Ed.
"But Izzy was an elder queer who came out later in life!" (Debatable but) So was Stede.
"But Izzy was abused!" So was literally everyone.
Y'all just don't want death to happen to your favorite characters. Which is FINE and a very NORMAL response but you're doing way too fucking much.
It's like when Noah died in The Raven King and people were sending the author abuse about it. Like SOMETIMES SAD THINGS HAPPEN! If everyone got off scot free and no one suffered consequences you'd get the end of Breaking Dawn. Which NO ONE can argue was 'good writing'.
I don't know man, it's like you're allowed to be sad your fave died but this witch hunt, this crusade of virtue signaling trying to assign your bad feelings to some Great Bigoted Crime of Problematacy is just fucking ponderous
The thing about so many people being mad at Izzy's death is that they have no fucking media literacy.
Did it make you sad? Does it feel unfair?
YEAH! THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT!
It is sad. It's unfair, even.
But what it's NOT is bad writing or "bury your gays" or cruel to the viewers.
You dumb shits.
"But Izzy is disabled!" So are Lucius and Ed.
"But Izzy was suicidal!" So was Ed.
"But Izzy was an elder queer who came out later in life!" (Debatable but) So was Stede.
"But Izzy was abused!" So was literally everyone.
Y'all just don't want death to happen to your favorite characters. Which is FINE and a very NORMAL response but you're doing way too fucking much.
It's like when Noah died in The Raven King and people were sending the author abuse about it. Like SOMETIMES SAD THINGS HAPPEN! If everyone got off scot free and no one suffered consequences you'd get the end of Breaking Dawn. Which NO ONE can argue was 'good writing'.
I don't know man, it's like you're allowed to be sad your fave died but this witch hunt, this crusade of virtue signaling trying to assign your bad feelings to some Great Bigoted Crime of Problematacy is just fucking ponderous
Everything is fun and games until you fall in love with a cute blond
Love this scene.
On the comedy side, Archie is talking about how she imagined Stede being taller, muscly and charismatic, while actually describing Jim she's fallen for. (Yes to taller - even bending over a bowl of soup Jim is taller. Yes to muscly. And yes to charismatic - doing fairytale voices was just the tip of the iceberg)
On the tragedy side, there's Izzy bitterly watching Archie going on about how she thought the guy Ed is pining for would be taller, muscly and charismatic and probably thinking. Yeah. Thought so too.
In episode 2 the figurine representing Stede doesn't look so good as in episode 1.
It took me a rewatch to figure out Ed was most likely trying to burn it, but couldn't bring himself to do it. Hence the defeated look.
The beautiful ones hurt you every time.