#I have NOT been able to focus OUUUUGH

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Please for the Love of God let me tell you about my gay time traveling vampires

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ok finally putting my thoughts on ii into one "coherent" post. remember my opinions are flawed always and forever.

fair warning this is a lot of words

This show drives me insane. In both good ways and bad. Thank GOD this isnt the ending because that would've genuinely been the worst object show ending i've ever seen (tho tbf not many of them get to end lmao) but it isnt so we're moving on. The main focus is clearly on Mephone4's story right now, which is fine and dandy. The narriative of abuse and generational trauma they have going on is mostly solid, if a bit cheesy at times but like that's fine. Cheese is fine. but what is not fine is essentially leaving every other character in the dust for that! screwing everyone else over!! the tacomic reunion was so boring. so many characters didnt even get to say a WORD this episode before oop they r fuckkn dead. there is time to rectify the messiness but i have a feeling when/if they're brought back (god if they stay dead then thats a whole other story) it won't be rectified. it'll just be Happy Reunion Times and more hollow fandom feels fodder. but it is not fair for me to judge a show based on what has yet to happen. still stands tho that they got sidelined HEAVILY. so many of the contestants got literally nothing and with the ones we did get to see they just sped through their arcs to maximize the Despair of them dying. Like with the hamfisted payjay fight in ep16 making it so that ouuuugh the last time they talked they were fighting ouuuuuuugh.... so sads..... like cmon. im literally a payjay divorce stan i think their relationship is doomed to fail. but that was so obviously just a move to make oj dying more ✨️Dramatik✨️. and then there's the weird constant hate balloon keeps getting, like oh no he was. kinda rude. and suitcase is a 'backstabber?' for defending him i guess?? gonna cutely ignore the absolute mess of an arc that balloon had in s3 because s3 doesnt exist but why does knife get on suitcase's... hhe hehehh... on her CASE.... about trusting balloon? what was the reason!!!! knife you were WAY worse than him in season 1!!! you are NOT one to say she's stupid for believing he could change!!! goddd ae you can and have done so much better which is why im not able to let it go. "why did you make us broken" "because that's all i know" that exchange goes SO hard and i KNOW they know it. they do such good shit sometimes that it just makes me sooooooO MAD when they don't. grrrrrghrhh ok. im normal.

theres a lot of plot holes that arise from their apparent insistance of taking everything in the early series at face value, which I'll skim over because there's a chance that it'll be addressed in ep 18. but a chance is just a chance... we'll see. i will come back to this if neccesary. that and season three being something that like actually canonically happened throws in so much timeline confusion like... the contestants said it they saw him the night before the challenge began in episode 15?? i know there's no way that all happened so fast. did meph like. pause them?? how??? it's so confusing. again this might be answered ep 18 (or honestly it's more likely i missed something) but like. how did tt and fan have time to make bot. what's going on. it shouldnt really matter but they made a specific point of mentioning barely any time passed. so they're making it matter. AND ON THE TOPIC OF MEPH NOT REMEMBERING HE CREATED THEM THOUGH. WHY!!!! WHY DIDNT HE REMEMBER!!!!!!! was it an attempt to absolve him or wrongdoing?? cuz thats cheap as hell! did he remove the memories in the gem cave?? did he like generate them and then run off and erase his memories after that? so then how did he get the s2 contestants?? were they just on standby? and the one-off bit characters??? i genuinely hope he's lying about that. it'd be way more interesting and make so much more sense. like, even now when the guilt of what he did to them is so crushing that he can't stop himself from telling them the truth he has to bend it in a desperate attempt to keep them from hating him because this is all he had but really he just makes everything worse type beat. and the point cherries made about 'ouh you didnt question your ocs magically coming to life??' is such a solid point and mephone's response is such a nonanswer. just dodging the question essentially. it's almost like the writers didnt have an answer either so they made sure to mention in an attempt to wiggle around it being a major dent in the plot. again i sincerely hope he's lying about that. him not remembering that adds nothing but plotholes.

ok thats about it except for two little things. i have no idea how to bring these up naturally but i need to mention them anyway. my second favorite line in the episode is paper's mention of evil paper being reductive. i dont think it was meant to be funny but it was so funny to me. it was obviously a half-assed attempt at addressing some of the early series ableism because they couldnt get away with just quietly deleting those bits like they did with most of it since it was an active plot point (edit: this point is dumb. i shouldn't get on their asses for what they wrote when they were kids. they didnt even need to address it since they've pretty obviously grown from that and are trying to do better but they did anyway. still not a fan of how they just removed a bunch of the problermatic s1 lines without saying anything tho). but im kinda obsessed with the implications. the implication of paper researching plurality after getting eliminated is so good. idk why it's so funny to me though, perhaps the bluntness?? idk it adds to paper's character esp considering he's been a tad... heh hehehh heh... FLAT..... thanks to only having an active role in s1 as "the kind and meek one". like yas go off!!! (edit 2 ive seen a lot of my fellow evil paper fans be disappointed by this probably being the last we'll hear of evil paper and they r so right actually. i still found the line really funny, esp bc i was not expecting ep to be brought up again at all so it was quite out of left field for me, but for them to just go ''hey remember this thing we did that a lot of people connect to despite it being problematic? yeah instead of bringing it back and making an active effort to write it better we're just gonna mention it was bad. sorry lol" is laaaaame. bring him back and write him right ok?) aaand the other thing is toilet and suitcase's little interaction of "it might be hard to believe this but i made a mistake!!" "... :o!!!" was funny and really sweet too. like she's still a bit of a dummy and she's still a sweetheart who sees the best in everyone despite it all!! despite the bitterness and the horrors she really does just believe in others!!! suitcase stay winning i love you so much girllllll even if ae has no idea how to handle writing your psychosis. like wow they are bad at that.

ok thats enough of that. this show oh my goddd.