#And that teaser is totally playing on that stupid part of my brain! like heyyy look at Viren not being framed as a monster for 15 seconds

[dear-kumari]

Well.  Okay.  I suppose I’m glad that TDP, or at least TDP’s marketing team, finally recognizes that Aaravos and Viren’s relationship is the most compelling part of the show — things were looking pretty bleak there for a while.  Also it’s pretty cool that they took their time making this season instead of rushing out something as messy as the last one, even just from the standpoint of promoting a healthier workplace (yeah, remember that controversy?).  I really wish I had an ounce of faith left in the writers, though, because with their track record an entire season/phase* devoted to the “Mystery of Aaravos” will probably just end up having a higher volume of shit that annoys me than usual.  In fact, that subtitle leads me to believe that they decided they just want to get aaaall the Aaravos-related stuff they built up out of the way in one production cycle so they can move on to the shiny new stories they actually want to tell in this universe.  Dude is almost certainly gonna get a big Disney villain perma-death within three books, so like. look forward to that, I guess.

*The phase/book/season thing is confusing af, but I think the gist of it is that “The Dragon Prince” was the first three books (which only had 27 25-minute episodes cumulatively, so functionally and probably production-wise constituted one “season” of television), whereas this three-book cycle will be “Mystery of Aaravos” (no “The” for some reason. it’s fine. it doesn’t matter).  I suspect the seventh and final book will be as long as a normal TV season, and I also suspect that they did not plan a lot or any of this from the start.  It’s weird that this is still being called “The Dragon Prince Saga” when “The Dragon Prince” was apparently only the first phase — couldn’t they rebrand the franchise as “Tales of Xadia” or something?  It’s not like “The Dragon Prince” is that great for SEO or marketing, considering how it intersects with other generic fantasy titles.

#Kumari comments #Kumari abuses the tagging system #sigh. at least the Viravos fans are winning(?) #they will Not be given nuance but they Might be mildly homoerotic about their weird power dynamic. This is what Viravos fans want I assume #idk. I don't expect TDP to surprise me at all and I really should just let it go #but a part of my brain is always trying to give this show the benefit of the doubt #And that teaser is totally playing on that stupid part of my brain! like heyyy look at Viren not being framed as a monster for 15 seconds #(this is because he's literally being reduced to a pawn but it's better than nothing right) #just … ehh. he's probably gonna get a Zuko-esque rEdeMPtion aRC huh #him or Claudia but probably not both #I can't articulate my exact objection to that (I'm so tired) but the general vibe is Not Good #It's going to be so annoying.