I know people are upset about Izzy being killed (I am too) but the truth is I don’t think it was bad writing or even them diminishing Izzy’s character, I actually think everything about the last episode has to do with production and I think Izzy lovers will feel a little better about it if they see it like that (it helped for me).
Basically, if you look at it like this, I think 2 important things came into play. Budget and how the showrunners assumed this would play out. Which is to say that they probably assume HBO will either renew them for season 3 and cut their budget again or they’re going to be cancelled.
Both are very likely, so assuming they had this in mind, removing Con, who I’d guess is the 3rd highest paycheck after Taika and Rhys was probably their best budgeting move, especially if they’re thinking of having an all out war in the final season that they probably want to be a visual spectacle, so each season feels like it’s getting consistently larger in scope.
On the other hand, if they do get cancelled (which they probably will because the HBO CEO is a weird little conservative goon), they left the ending in a way that could be considered an ENDING while still being prepped for a 3rd season. So in the time they had left (which was 2 episodes less than their first season) they gave Izzy an entire completed character arc.
I 100% understand the sadness and anger, especially after all the shit he went through during the beginning of the season, I felt gut punched when I learned he died and was bitter as hell through my whole first viewing of the season even though I’d had more than a month to process it. But after having thought it through, I genuinely don’t think it’s simply them treating Izzy as just an extension of Ed’s character growth and I sure as shit don’t think it’s because they wanted to conform to Izzy haters.
I think if they had all of the resources and episodes they wanted, had a guaranteed season 3, I think we would have gotten the character growth we got with better pacing and he probably would have at minimum made it to season 3 (I also think he would have had a love interest, but that’s just what I wanted for him tbh).
I think they did the best they could with what they had, allocated a lot of budget and screen time towards his character despite having less of those 2 things than the first season, and at least let Izzy have a completed story and arc, even if the ending was deeply disappointing.
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I get so frustrated by the fact that transmasc fic focuses so heavily on the same transition milestones (or on sex that doesn't feel meaningfully different from cis genderswap fic) and I just like. Do not know how to talk about it without sounding like a grumpy old man.
There are just SO MANY weird and specific parts of everyone's trans experience. I get so tired of the endless arguments about "happens to be trans" vs "about being trans" representation. It's not binary like that!! Pausing the narrative to mention that a character wears a binder, adding blorbo names to a textbook coming out, and fucking sloppy style are not the only options!!
I'm not mad that those fics exist, I want every scared trans teen who hasn't come out yet to have that safe haven on ao3, but also. Like.
Where are my trans fics about awkward packer slip-ups? About re-meeting someone who only knew you pre-transition? About travel difficulties and paperwork hell? About healthcare fuckups and deciding to come out to soften the "no" when you get invited to a pool party and picking your hobbies to avoid gendered spaces and the first time your voice cracks at the knitting circle? About gifts of clothes and learning to shave?
I want stories where the characters have specific trans struggles and joys that are unique to the circumstances of the rest of their lives. I want stories that are in medias trans, focusing on the middle bits and not just the big milestones of starting t/getting surgery/coming out. I want stories where trans people get help, even from people who aren't doing it perfectly, even from people they're not fucking or related to. Hell, I want more stories that actually engage with bottom dysphoria. I want comings-out that work the way real ones do, over multiple conversations to hash out the specifics of what "I'm trans" actually means for how you, specifically, want to be treated.
I want trans headcanons that feel the same way it does to BE trans: trans, and many other things that have nothing to do with being trans, simultaneously and inextricably. Trans stories that couldn't be told about any other character because they're grounded in the minutia of that specific character's life.
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Koda: I am better than horse. I will carry you.
Katja: wmWhat. Did. You. Fucking. Say?
Koda: I am Better than Horse.
Rekha: Katja squares up.
Aabria/Antiope: I immediately grab Katja like 'nope, nope!'
Katja: let me take him don't you hold me back!
Antiope: Bear back up, back up! You don't want me to let her go.
Koda: okay.
Becca/Penny: I hug the bear. Just don't say, we know it's true, don't say it again.
Katja: what?!
Koda: oh yeah, what, what, what?
Antiope: Girl you wanna get let go?
Katja: Am I gonna fight a bear?
Antiope: go fucking get him! Aabria/Antiope: I let go and push her forward. Kill this bear!
Izzy/Ostentatia: can I cast enhance ability and give her beat shit?
Antiope: smoke this bear, Katja!
Brennan: I'm gonna pull up bear --
Becca/Penny: no, not Koda, please, I'll give my life for Koda!
Sam: Koda, I believe in you. And I give Koda bardic inspiration.
Katja: what! Against me?!
*overlapping chatter*
Brennan: okay, so you have enhanced ability, I'm gonna need an athletics check with advantage from you.
Sephie/Sam: my first time bardic inspiration!
Brennan: what did you roll?
Rekha/Katja: I rolled an 18, which plus my athletics is a 27.
Aabria: let's go
Becca/Penny: come on Koda
Brennan: I'm gonna roll.
Sephie/Sam: remember that bardic inspiration!
Brennan: yes, bardic inspiration.
*overlapping chatter*
Rekha/Katja: Absolutely psychotic
Aabria/Antiope: I want Hunter's Sense on this bear. What is his weakness?
Rekha/Katja: fuck yes
Antiope: I'm whispering in your ear like, 'go for his nuts.'
Becca/Penny: I get an acrobatics check as I spin the bear on my feet?
Rekha/Katja: this is unreal you created, and then brought back this bear.
Penny: Koda is a circus trained bear and I have acrobatics.
Brennan: so I'm gonna roll. Here's, here's Koda's athletics check.
*math happens* Katja: 27, Koda: 24
Erika/Yelle: before this resolves --
Katja: and it will never resolve!
Erika/Yelle: everyone hears a voice in the back of their heads that says: 'Everybody knock it off and grow the fuck up.'
Rekha: gasps
Penny: yeah, Koda
Yelle: you too Koda
Sam: especially Koda
Brennan: Katja you've got --
Ostentatia: who just fucking cursed at me?
Brennan: so you all -- so Danielle just communicated telepathically. You gently release Koda from the arm bar that you have Koda in.
Rekha/Katja: yea it was an arm bar and I was about to grab him like *gestures with a clenched fist* like this is his shirt and put him up against the --
Izzy: shirt?
Rekha/Katja: yea, but this is fur, against the thing. And go like a 'why I oughta!'
Becca/Penny: no Koda wears a tiny T-shirt, that's right.
Rekha: *something I can't catch* really small.
Izzy: is it Paddington?
*overlapping chatter and laughing*
Brennan: a talking Kodiak Bear with an enormous rain jacket and hat. Less cute that size. Cool. So, so Katja you were clearly about to tie this bear in a knot.
Aabria/Antiope: kick this bear's ass.
Brennan: and Danielle grabs everyone's attention. Zelda looks at Yelle and goes [as Zelda]: cool. Yeah, we need to head to the Baronies. We should go.
Katja: yeah, yeah. Are you cool, Koda? Are you fucking cool?
Koda: if you are cool, I am cool. We have no problem. Maybe next time we go there's no sucker punches, and we sort of, you know?
Yelle: okay, you know what. This is what we call, in the industry, bear baiting. And you're not going to fall for it.
Izzy: what industry?
Aabria/Antiope: we're getting baited by a bear that's fucked.
Katja: I am not falling for this
Penny: the nature industry
Katja: I am strong, I am strong, and you are weak
*overlapping chatter*
Brennan: uh, amazing. So it kicks off a little bit again, and you guys head off from here. Katja and Koda, the tension is palpable.
Rekha/Katja: and we're sitting next to each other!
Penny: I hope on Koda's back
Izzy: they're gonna fuck!
Penny: I'm whispering to Koda what a good boy he is, and how he's better than a horse.
Katja: I'm whispering to cinnamon "you know there's nothing on earth that's better than a horse, you know that right?
Cinnamon: I didn't let that bear get to me. I didn't let that bear get to me.
Brennan: so you all move along
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