#DW fans have compared it to Heaven Sent but no it's Human Nature and you're the baddies being eternally tormented

[nostalgia-tblr]

Okay so not directly sub-tumbling as I've seen this around a few places now, but re: Loki S2 finale I'm annoyed about the ship-baiting aspect, and disappointed with the weird "let's never address this" but it's the tree thing that I hate. I just can't not see that as horrifc and depressing and actually quite mean-spirited? It's a gut-level thing for me, and I was so confused that so many people love it and I don't know if I will ever not see it a nightmareish fate for any character.

I mean sylki (and lokius too, for that matter) is mostly just kind of... not addressed. I've had pairings in far worse states than that and after a day or two I've shrugged and carried on as before. It's not like they broke up, we're still at where we started S2 which is "they need to have one conversation that wouldn't even take that long and then they'll be pretty much fine." Hence the disappointment/annoyance, because how the fuck do six episodes pass without that conversation ever happening? How can the central relationship not progress in any way whatsoever? But like I said, I've dealt with worse.

Nah, it's definitely the time-tree that's got to me most. I wouldn't inflict that on a character I hated. What's the point in being powerful and being The Most Important Person if you can never speak to anyone ever again, nor move from the one spot you're basically welded to, and all you can do is watch the world(s) and your friends move on, which is probably comforting for about a day or two until it becomes more frustrating and taunting than soothing. I just Do Not Get It. How is that a happy ending? How is that a worthwhile destiny (even leaving aside that the beating-destiny-cos-that's-not-really-a-thing theme was one of my favourite of the things that went missing in the gap between S1 and S2) for anyone?

I'd probably just have killed the person I loved at that point, to be shamefully honest. Yeah I'd feel bad about it and guilty for being selfish but fuck it I'm not spending eternity as a Funko Pop for anyone. They'll be dead, they won't mind! I can absolutely argue the case for murdering my beloved being the path of least suffering by far! For both of us! Because oh my fucking god. The horror, the horror.