#the old man wedding just made me so much happier than mora being brought back to life

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disenchantment spoilers i guess but everyone is mad about elfo and luci and im just. feeling very :// about mora.

i dont talk about this much but when i first watched golden wind the sorbet-gelato thing touched me in a really bad place and i talk about this a bit more but i really dont mind gay characters (or characters that just radiate that energy but arent canonically gay - tiz and squalo namely) dying in golden wind because it doesnt feel targeted. like theyre killed because many people die in the series not because theyre queer, personally i can work with that.

in disenchantment it felt a bit like a fake punch to see if i flinch, even though i suspected they wont just kill off the mc's sapphic love interest for shock value it felt a bit below the belt? like i still had to watch bean mourning her for a painfully long time, it felt a bit cheap. bean feeling lonely and wanting someone that loves and understands her on this level has been a theme for 5 entire seasons and im not a fan of being made to feel like it was all for nothing and even though she figured out who she loves she doesnt actually deserve to be with her.

its probably because in jojo there isnt really a romantic storyline like that in... any part tbh (not counting erina and suzi bc finding them isnt really the main jojo's goal or a big part of the story they just meet and decide "oh we must marry"). if i was shown how desperate cioccolata or secco or idk was to find someone that loves and accepts them for most of golden wind or if that was at least one of giorno's biggest personal goals in life only for his love interest to then get killed off in the last episodes i would like that show a lot less. like that would be cruel and earn the title of "bury your gays" and disenchantment reviving mora in the last minute wasnt satisfying enough for me to just forgive that entirely.

(i could also go off about the difference between how the two shows handle random revivals and fakeout deaths but thats a suitcase for another day and i might be biased but spoiler, that bothers me a lot less in jojo too. like they dont do it so often death stops being meaningful in any way)

#hakuna matata #yea if you think 'but tiz and squalo are canon' araki dint write them as gay they just turned out very coded looking #idk i didnt dislike disenchantment i really liked most of it #i just like how jojo handles these same things more #i dont want to say anything mean sounding about disenchantment bc im really not calling it homophobic or something #the old man wedding just made me so much happier than mora being brought back to life #not because i didnt want bean to be happy. i did. it just felt a lot less satisfying. #also yea luci could be ended better but i just dont like elfo that much so i dont mind him not being around bean forever #like idk if i can call their gang a found family it felt like they didnt spend enough time together past the first couple seasons #it didnt really stick with me #and i didnt binge any season so its not like everything was so quick i couldnt stop and consider