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i like season 2 of shadow and bone!!

…but i also hated it. listen shadow and bone season 2 was an amazing experience like i LOVED tolya and tamar’s entrance and seeing 5 of our crows together warmed my heart but it was too not shadow and bone for me to absolutely love it. my memory might serve me wrong but in siege and storm the death of the sea whip was emphasized a LOT more in comparison to the show which i feel kind of dimmed the significance and ‘greatness’ of this mighty amplifier the sea whip. also am i wrong or did sturmhond or nikolai have different faces in the books? because i know that also highlighted how different these two personas are to nikolai like he views sturmhond as a whole other person who has freedom and everything he wants but can never attain but in the show there was very little emphasis on this. this whole nikolai and sturmhond being different thing also added on to nikolai’s personality and development as a character in the books which is why i feel that it not being as significant in the show would rlly not do nikolai’s character good in the long term. another thing is i wished there was more emphasis on genya and her whole ruined thing because the fandom absolutely ate up that line where genya said she wasn’t ruined she was ruin and that line came from a place of insecurity and pain from her being called ruin yet if that same place isn’t as developed in the shows we won’t get to see the same strong genya we love emerge from people calling her ‘ruined’ and getting over her insecurities. i absolutely HATED how in the last few episodes everything changed leigh and the writers might have wanted to give the readers a nice surprise with this change which is cute but we were expecting to see all the iconic scenes we had pictured a million times in our heads actually happen in the show for us to actually SEE instead of imagining like i personally was so excited to see some moments come to life. plus why did they kill david off so early and changed the triumvirate?? that just told me that they were gonna either change or not go with at all the plot of king of scars because the plot of that duology was heavily based on the idea of the triumvirate which consisted of genya, david and zoya. it also gave the whole idea of alina obtaining her peace more development cause she didn’t need to be in power or fight anymore yet alina staying in ravka with nikolai and being a part of the triumvirate has changed her entire character for me. i also wished we got to see more of wylan and jesper being introduced instead of them immediately knowing each other because now we won’t get to hear the iconic ‘not just girls line’ in show. anyways i liked it a lot but season 2 will not hold as special of a place in my heart as the books did because season 2 has just made me see the show and the books as two separate plots with the same characters.