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antiloreolympus · 3 years

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6 Anti LO Asks

1. im hoping psyche isnt actually black bc her whole story so far as been being phsyically abused by her mother, mnaioulated by her sisters, sold to a white man into marriage (which is already bad but even WORSE if shes black like holy shit rachel) and shes a bit character to eros when the actual myth was with her as the lead and eros as the bit one. like?? this is all bad but making her canon black would be even worse tbh

From OP: I’m sorry to tell you this but Psyche is black.

2. I love reading all the asks saying how the current arc is RS clapping back at all us 'haters' and our criticisms and trying to correct us. It's just. So so funny. Because RS literally does try to correct our criticisms sometimes and it always always somehow makes everything worse.

Like RS is way too much in the fandom space, it influences the writing way too much, whether it be via a fan's theory, what the fans want to happen, or even through trying to correct the 'haters'. I have no doubts though that a portion of it is just her own writing, but by now it's just all so awful.

She just needs to wrap all this shit up and put LO out of its misery a season ago.

3. ngl, its weird LO went in reverse on hades. bc in the beginning you feel bad for him, you get he can be seen as misunderstood, but then he started ripping kid's eyes out, belittling thanatos, cheating on minthe, abusing his power over his citizens, feeling entitled to be above the laws, even screaming at persephone for calling him out for owning SLAVES, w/ the list going on and on. Even with more background we get on him, the worse he becomes. idk how RS thinks this makes him look /bette/..

4. yall really think rachel even knows a black person? she lives in new zealand. all they got there is sheep and the white rejects even australia didnt want. the only POC they have is immigrants that are heavily discriminated against and the indigenous people rachel's ancestors tried to stamp out. be real here guys, she refuses to even talk to greeks about their own culture and stories despite making a greek myth story, yall think she'll talk to a black person to be accurate about their hair? cmon.

5. what i also dont get is persephone is depicted as so childish and shy and naive yet magically becomes a sexy vixen as soon as she starts flirting or even out-flirting hades?? like thats not how people work. its like rachel wants her cake and to eat it too, which is not good writing. either pick one or the other, and it should have been not making persephone so childish from the beginning, IMHO, instead of this badly written and creepy emphasis and even sexualization of how childish she is.

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6. FP// tbh if persephone had any self respect, even if shes nervous/scared to be on trial, she would NOT be ok with how hades is bossing her around and making all her decisions for her. more so, if hades genuinely cared and respected her, he wouldnt be treating her like a child and actually listen to her, instead of becoming the overbearing father figure, esp considering how visibly uncomfortable it makes her and how it seems like the exact tactics demeter would be called abusive/overbearing for.

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #lo critical

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bagofbonesmp3 · 3 years

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shadow and bone s1 thoughtsies

gonna put this under the cut bc i don’t wanna annoy anyone <3 also bear in mind i only read the six of crows duology so any grisha trilogy opinions are biased <3

overall rating of the show: 7/10. it was really fun and i had :0 moments constantly

pros, aka things i liked:

- alina and mal. as far as im told they’re very annoying and without chemistry in the books so i applaud them for making them more interesting and nuanced and i rooted for them the whole time

- the aging up. tbh if they had tried to make this a ya series i would have started to beat some people up because alina and the darkling’s realtionship just gets really fucking awful if she’s a 17 year old kid so im glad they’re all in their 20s now. especially for the crows bc there is really no reason they had to be teens in the books even, they all act like theyre 24 already.

- most of the cast. they were really good. jessie mei lin and archie renaux were surprisingly fun. ben barnes as the darkling was such a good choice because he is literally older than the rest of the cast and that made him even creepier. i dont know much about the shadow and bone characters but bregha seemed great to me too.

- the story from the shadow and bone aspect. it was really well paced, i liked those flashbacks and the way alina started to get more and more submersed into the little palace world, how she started to forget who she was little by little.

- malina. the ONE LINERS THEY THREW AT EACH OTHER. WOW. love.

- the worldbuilding. the magic and the locations felt so alive and refreshing after swallowing got for like 5 years. effervescent.

- VERY good ending, i liked the high stakes, i was gripping my seat.

cons, aka things i didn’t quite like:

- the fucking. six of crows storyline. what was the reason!! what was the reason!! asides from them trying to ponder to the soc fans, there was really no motivation for them to be there. if you took all of their scenes away the show wouldn’t change?? we can have a miniseries spinoff guys we dont need the weird combo. i would have allowed the nina matthias storyline even but why drag the rest of them here?????

- kaz. this is not my boy! this is not my boy. the actor they chose.... i don’t vibe with him. who are you. also his characterization was all over the place this is not scheming face brekker this is some common white boy! also not relevant for his character technically but relevant for ME. why arent his eyes brown. i feel that was an important thing why arent his eyes brown like bitter coffee

- also this has been bothering me since the cast was announced but nina. what happened here.

- i have to mention the weird racism. like. again i haven’t read the grisha trilogy, were they this anti shu in the books? like, in the soc books there is the casual microagression and small shit but this was so??? and also i dont understand why zoya was being fantasy world racist against alina because as far as i know zoya is a brown woman? so like? its very strange and clunky and im thinking it would have been better if they scraped that whole subplot

- alina’s shu heritage. this is kinda connected with the point above. im glad they had an actress of color play alina, because im tired of white ya protagonists, but this whole “they bully me” subplot felt kinda lacking? like, i would have liked to see her react more about the anti shu sentiment, speak more about it, also her reaction with the instructor who was shu, or her speaking to other poc that were part of the second army like??? we could have explored that a lot more and given her depth? and also the fact that there are no other shu in this season was odd. one would think they’d be interested in the fact that the sun summoner is half shu

- the first two episodes were a little bit Too Much because they were trying to throw all of this info at you and things were happening at the same time. which wouldnt have happened if you didnt have all of that kidnapping plot to begin with!!

- just. the amount of characters they had left the secondary characters feeling too flat. they should have focused on the shadow and bone characters and nothing else!!!!

#:) i liked it overall i just have no idea why they wanted to merge the two series #yo.txt

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