#I’m sorry ik I’ve been posting multiple tdp critical posts in a row

[luniviravosshipper]

The amount of times I’ve tried posting but ended up rewriting over and over again the same post about how annoyed I am at how people seem to hate Terry even more this season because they cannot comprehend how he could be True of Heart when ironically enough those who are saying stuff about how it doesn’t make sense are the ones who were always complaining about how too good Terry appeared to be for him to be associated with the magefam, how he was too pure of a character to tolerate dark magic and to be in love with Claudia before this season.

But I swear, the thing about him killing someone. Not only somehow has the fact that the show went out of its way to try to depict how that action didn’t automatically make him a bad person flew over people’s heads, but also the fact that the show has thus far defined the idea of innocence as not necessarily meaning doing goods things or not being exposed to bad things but rather lacking in understanding of the complexities of morality has completely flown over people’s heads. And the latter wasn’t even something just implied, it was directly told to the audience several times that that was how the show was defining it.

This is like one of those other things I’ve talked about where like, yeah, we could do a whole analysis of why this all makes sense and in this case it’s not really the fault of the show’s for people’s automatic misinterpretation of this new idea introduced in the show as being something black and white (and funnily enough the concept being talked about here is literally about how things aren’t black and white). But also at some point I feel like people should be doing their own inferring, they should commit to using the minimal effort required to just… think for a moment. About what is actually happening in the series.

Because some of the things I’ve heard ever since Terry was first introduced as a character in the series, it’s not even that necessary to look that deep into the show in order to understand him. The show sometimes literally tells us what it wants us to think about him. And yet people just somehow miss those things entirely.