#‘oh i dont like ada shes so boring and not well written’

[resizura]

something pissed me off today i was on that godforsaken app and someone was discussing how there are complex characters in re and people dont understand them and they used chris, wesker, ada, and luis. they claimed to like chris and wesker (as evidenced by the multiple comments dissecting chris’s ‘character’ in the series. they claimed to not like ada or luis but “understood their characters” yet didnt explain further why they didnt like them.

what gets me is that i see this same thing on tiktok where its basically people hating on ada but disguising it as wanting better writing for her.

like im sorry but re characters are not well written. theyre written by multiple different people throughout multiple different games, movies, and comics, and no one can agree on anything. most of the characters are essentially blank slates with no discernible personality traits. which is why it pisses me off so much.

whenever it comes to ada she doesnt get the same treatment as other (male) characters. i saw one person who disliked ada but they loved chris, wesker, luis, and leon. and liking luis but hating ada is always gonna baffle my mind because theyre so similar to each other. no, ada never gets an explanation as to why shes disliked other than “she needs better writing.” hey guess what. everyone in the series needs better writing.

i have my own 300 paragraph essays about ada because just like the other characters, there is barely anything to her in canon. most of my interpretation of her is literally in my head because capcom gives us jack shit. but her bad writing is used against her for people to dislike her character, but despite being slightly expanded on in re4make and separate ways its still not enough for people to latch onto. people latch onto the damn cameraman from re7 for crying put loud.

and i know this too because theres tons of people who like ada just like me and have the same interpretations, or different ones, but ones that still expand her character. hell, this can apply to any female character too, sheva, claire, ashley, mia, manuela, jill (although she’s not as much of a victim to this as other characters). like sorry but why is “poorly written” only a characteristic i see for the female characters.

idk i just think fine like whoever you want, write your essays, but dont complain about a badly written character when you yourself like a badly written character. we’re all in the same boat here

#resizura rants #messy post im so livid LMAO #idk if this made sense #im not being hypocrytical im just tired of seeing #‘oh i dont like ada shes so boring and not well written’ #‘anyways heres a 247274 page essay on why clancy from re7 is the best re character’ #ughhhhhhhhhh #and like to not give a reason why they didnt like ada? at least op didnt like luis too #and like what does ‘complex character’ even mean anymore? #because no one in re is complex i will die on this hill #i want the series to have better writing but it doesnt! its okay to recognize that!! #and again ‘poorly written’ is a shit excuse for a series with poorly written characters #im gonna nap or smth idfk

[nineteenninety-six]

I have to say I’m excited to see what you do with grace in candy (I tried my best to like her on the show but I just never connected with her )

Oh man, dont get your expectations too high lol, I dont want to disappoint you. I didn't make a thing out of it since I just wanted to get that storyline just out of the way, so it's pretty boring and anticlimactic.

I agree with you about not connecting with her but I think its mainly due because we don't really get to know her at all during the show.

In S1 the only thing we see of her is her being a spy and betraying Tommy and I'm sure we all hated that she did that and then she appears again at the end of S2, cheats on her husband and becomes pregnant with Tommy's baby and in S3 we see her get married and then she dies in the next episode.

Whether she's a decent person is debatable but the writers of the show can't really write female characters and she does suffer from it and so does the rest of the women.

Linda and Lizzie (who I have a whole set of opinions about but eh) also suffer from it.

I think Ada is probably the most well written out of all of them and Polly is also great, she has some iffy moments but she is also a woman who has been through a lot and yet she's still standing and I love that.

And the whole every woman who's not related to Tommy falls for him and sleeps with him is not a thing I'm fond of.

I gave you an essay of an answer, I'm sorry lol.

#candy #anon