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Wow

The amount of people who are confused about why Millie is freaking out about falling pregnant REALLY reminds me how young a lot of y'all are

Just because you're happily married for years doesn't mean pregnancy is something to be excited about

Like I can come up with several reasons why Millie might be freaking out right now hold on lemme see:

- they are imps, living in a shitty apartment barely making ends meet, therefore they can't afford a baby

- Millie comes from a HUGE family and has baggage attached to that

- Millie has possibly suffered a miscarriage in the past and has trauma attached to pregnancy

- Millie knows this will make it difficult or even impossible to work at imp, both because it's a risk to the fetus, but even after birth it's a dangerous job they are risking their lives on the daily

- She might just not want to have kids, and knows that Moxxie probably does, and the conflict is as simple as that

- She might not really know if she wants this or not, but MORE than that just being pregnant is TERRIFYING. Your body is rapidly changing and that alone is so scary.

Like I know it's mostly young people and cis guys who are confused about this but I promise this is a VERY common response to finding out you're pregnant, no matter HOW long you've been in a committed, stable relationship.

Source: I've been happily married for over a decade and falling pregnant is one of my biggest fears I never ever want to give birth, ever

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so glad he finally learned what insurance is

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It was so important to me that Stolas was able to be sad throughout the entire episode. Usually media likes to rush a character's grief/depression/sadness. Like "Stop moping around" or "get over it already." Depression doesn't just go away. It is a persistent feeling of sadness.

His depression was also presented through various emotions/emotional states.

Lethargy

Crying

Anger / frustration

Self-blame

Not wanting company and being emotionally drained and unable to reciprocate

His problems weren't fix in the end and his sadness didn't go away even if he has someone who loves him by his side (and even if he loves him too). And I think this is one of the best depictions I have seen of a depressed character in media in a long time.

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I'm sorry, what was that people were going on about how Stolas had totally legit reasons throw away everything to save Blitzo and didn't totally forget about his daughter just like he ALWAYS has whenever Blitzo-related shenanigans/bullshit are afoot?

Oh yeah, we're starting GOOD this episode XD

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So I REALLY like the choice of having Octavia save Stolas (and Blitzo) BEFORE tearing into him for all his fuckups and slamming the metaphorical door.

It so much better illustrates that Octavia might save Stolas's life, she is still DONE with her father.

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HELLUVA BOSS SPOILERS

Getting ahead of discourse here, but I do actually think that making Stella and Andrealphus act like such asses around Octavia is a good idea from storytelling point of view. If Stella had been some master manipulator telling Octavia blatant lies about Stolas, then the conflict between Stolas and Octavia would be reduced to "exposing Stella and Andrealphus".

But this way, Octavia knows. Octavia is pissed at her mom too. She's pissed at everyone. BUT she's MOST pissed at her dad. And there's NOTHING Stolas can do to change that. There is no secret truth, no secret confession (well, the truth about the assassination attempts might shake things up, but at this point Octavia doesn't trust anything Stolas has to say). Now the conflict for Octavia will be between ideologies. Uphold the Goetia traditions with her mom, or embrace the scary, new, unknown world her dad has chosen. (that stole her dad from her)

And I'm sure that it's easier for her to swallow her mom and uncle's behaviour, because they're always been like that. But her dad, the one person she had the closest relationship with, suddenly revealed to be someone she didn't know anythign about. Now that HURTS. It hurts more because there was more to lose.

Mom and uncle Andy might be assholes, but at least they are predictable assholes. Dad just turned into an unknown actor.

I hope we get to see Octavia go on her own inner journey and make a choice about what future she wants for herself, by herself.

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Out of all the bad things that just happened can we have a moment of silence for this specific frame

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You know considering that most of the jobs we see IMP take on involve killing assholes who wind up in hell after their deaths too

���.it continuously failed to occur to me that yknow. Sometimes they’ll get jobs that involve killing genuinely good, kind people. Because their clientele is all sinners there’s bound to be a good mix of good reasons and bad reasons to kill people in the living world. But I think this is the first time that Helluva Boss has actually shown IMP being asked to kill honest to god good people.

More than that to show both Moxxie AND Blitz�� in agreement that they should deny the job. Back in Murder Family they kind of teased the idea with Moxxie feeling morally obligated to let a seemingly nice happy family live, but then the family turned out to be a bunch of crazy people anyway so I really didn’t think much about it before. This is a fascinating turn of events for IMP. It makes me think that their killing biz is on the road to some major changes.

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me rn

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I’m at least glad Octavia clearly realized that Stolas was profoundly unhappy long before Blitzø came into the picture, but I find it…odd, that she didn’t make the connection between that and Stella.

Stella has not been subtle in her cruelty, at least definitely not since the trial. She and Andrealphus have been lounging about the house cackling like the cartoon villains they are about how they’re keeping Stolas from contacting Via. With that in mind…

It just feels odd. Via saw how much pain her father was in and heard how much he loved her, even if the former was only through surrounding evidence.

Obviously, she’s a teenager, and no one is exactly rational in their grief and anger. But the fact she saw her father wasn’t the only one at fault and still shut him out, knowing it gave Stella exactly what she wanted, seems wrong.

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Gotta say, I was not expecting a callback/bookend to Murder Family here.

Pretty neat.

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I am so fucking stupid. I literally just realised the reason Loona spent most of the episode stuffing her face was because she was indulging in Gluttony since it was Sinsmas. #facepalm

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Okay, so since Loona's a Hellhound and thus tied to Gluttony, she chows down on lots of junkfood.

And because Millie and Moxxie are Imps and thus tied to Wrath, they (romantically) try to kill each other.

Neat.

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"I tried so many years to make it comfortable for us; to have this family, but it was never enough. The only reason I have endured your constant insults and cruelty was for that girl to have a normal life." - Stolas S2 E1

"Also, son, you are destined to sire a precautionary addition to the Goetia family." - Paimon S2 E1

Some of you all are completely misunderstanding the second half, I am not downplaying the love Stolas has for Octavia, I am not saying that at all, what I am saying, is that Octavia is 100% going to think she was a 'obligation' when she finds out she was born to be a 'precautionary addition to the Goetia family'.

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"Be nice to him, he's gay"

With an arrow to horse Stolas

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We love depressed dads beating up a bitch for their little princesses