#so i think the erins just didnt care and wanted a nobody death

[yuridovewing]

It was so strange to me to read the scene where Snowbush dies cause he's apparently Lilyheart's husband )I think) yet we never see him do anything before he dies. Shouldn't we have seen him interact more with Twigpaw if he was so important to lily?

well as this book asserts over and over with fernsong, a tom interacting with and parenting his children is weird and unusual! so snowbush was probably a deadbeat dad and no one cared! because thats the female's job. /s

actually we don't see his kits react to his death at all, twigpaw only ever talks about lilyheart and iirc doesn't really respond to his death in any unique way. for larksong being a topic in this book, we don't really see him interacting with snowbush and he doesn't seeeeeem to have a unique reaction to snowbush's death, especially not compared to his mother. so the erins might actually have thought that, idk.

#im not trying to be like '''OMG SNOWBUSH IS NEGLECTFUL'' i dont really think that. i just think the authors dont care abt him sdklfjlksdf #its more like it likely just never occurred to the writers that he should interact with his children #..... but also yknow if he was a woman people would raise hell- #although it IS worth pointing out that cloudtail and brightheart arent pointed out as mourning him either #so i think the erins just didnt care and wanted a nobody death #man in my discord server i said this but i compared it to longtails death #imagine if he didnt have an established bond with mousefur and he never really had any relevant history #and barely interacted with anyone especially the main characters- and also the tree didnt kill him immediately he just gets forgotten about #and then a few chapters later they write a weird and uncomfortable death scene where he just keels over #instead of dying in the actual impact which wouldve left an actual impression #i point out longtail bc hes literally mentioned in the chapter like ''wow remember this sad character death? lets make another like it. #but lamer!'' #longtails death worked because he was a known and beloved character and he left behind more loved ones like mousefur #ntm his death was sudden and avoidable but not in a way that feels cheap #with this it feels like they swung the roulette wheel to pick who dies this week

[geniusgub]

my rant about villain characters

okay.

I have a beef w the way “villain” characters are portrayed in tv shows and movies.

 I’m convinced that writers just throw in as much malice and anger as they can without rereading or editing or actually watching what they produce. again, I’m not talking about fan fiction because that shit SLAPS.

for this rant, I’m going to talk only about criminal minds because those are the only examples I can remember and I know that everyone who follows will understand the examples I use. also, I’m exempting unsubs from this for obvious reasons.

the first villain I’ll be talking about is Linda Barnes. GARBAGE. HORRIBLE. THE WORST. every time she comes on screen, you groan and want her off. I get it, that’s the point of her character- to cause conflict. but her character took away from my enjoyment of the show because she made watching the show a chore. I didn’t want to watch when she was in the episode.

this is because she had no redeeming qualities and this is where my argument lays. Linda Barnes has literally no good moments. she kicked Spencer off the team, made Rossi retire early, moved Garcia to a different department and stripped her of all the color that the BAU allows, then didn’t allow the remaining members of the BAU to go on cases and DIDNT CARE THAT PEOPLE WERE DYING AND THEY SAID IT OUTRIGHT THAT SHE COULDNT GIVE A SHIT. when she was told certain cases that JJ wanted the team to work, she immediately wondered how those cases would make the bureau look, not how it would help the victims or their families. then eventually she puts a saved victim in harms way after the unit chief (Queen JJ) tells her not to and ends up getting that saved person SHOT (even if she was wearing a vest) and Barnes didn’t that just because she thought that takedown was taking too much times.

I understand that she was in the show for a short time, but she had no personality other than her job and being a bitch and trying to disband the BAU for no good reason other than she felt like it. she had not one single good moment in all the episodes that she was in and it took away from the enjoyment of watching the show.

this is the fault of the writing. it’s the writers job to write characters that viewers can connect to, even if they’re villains. ain’t nobody out there saying “I stan Linda Barnes” NO BECAUSE SHES A BITCH AND MADE THE BAU’S LIVES A LIVING HELL!!! the writing of this character was absolutely terrible and the reason is that she had no redeeming qualities.

NOW

a perfect example of a well written villain is Erin Strauss. it’s no secret that in the beginning of the show, she kinda had it out for the BAU, for whatever reason (and if there was a reason then I don’t remember it lol). she definitely makes their lives harder, especially when she follows them into the field, even when she doesn’t have field experience.

but as her character progresses and she grows, she becomes a better person. this growth is perfectly seen in the finale of season seven (the last two episodes, titled “hit” and “run”). Hotch asks her to defy the directors orders and while she’s hesitant to do so, she trusts the BAU and their processes and defies the director. we even see her ignoring a call from the director while they’re in the field.

Strauss was obviously meant to be the villain of the show and while she was definitely shown to be out for the BAU at the beginning, she had a very clear arch and backstory and she had a lot of growth. she overcame her alcohol problems and made amends with Derek Morgan and even in her last moments before dying, she refuted what Hotch said about her having a favorite child. even in the moments before her death, we can see the stark difference in her character and how much she grows.

writers need to see that villains (aside from the serial killers on the show) are not all bad. there needs to be some humanizing qualities to them or else the viewers will want to shut the show off as soon as they come onto the screen. you can’t have a writer just be bad bad bad bad bad and not having some sunshine moments to them. it’s frustrating and it makes me want to chuck my remote at the tv and think of the consequences later. please. from an avid tv/movie binger- think a lot about how to give your characters archs and make them better people by the time they leave the screen than when they entered.

hopefully that made sense and I didn’t just fully ramble too much lol

if you want more examples:

(I won’t go into depth with these!)

villain characters without redeeming qualities:

•Liza from 68 Kill

(yall i fucking hate this bitch she was so horrible)

•Alexis Carrington from Dynasty (season 1 and 2)

•Adam Carrington from Dynasty (season 1 I think and 2)

•Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter

characters w redeeming qualities

•Sue Sylvester from Glee

•Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender

•Jade West from Victorious

•Loki from the Avengers epic (specifically in Thor Ragnarok and Avengers Endgame)

•PL Travers from Saving Mr. Banks

(GO WATCH THIS MOVIE ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME ITS SO AMAZING AND ITS ON NETFLIX!!!!!!)

as always I’m open to opinions and debate so let me know what you think☺️

#villain characters #my rant for today #thanks for even reading this far