#Jesper is more than goofy queer comedic relief

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

I really don’t care how many hours they talked about the changes they made. The changes were still horrible. Things happen in six of crows in the order that they happen for a reason. Especially as it pertains to kaz and inej, themes, situations, and phrases resurface again and again, giving them chances to grow and creating this really beautiful, complex relationship. And rather than respecting that and I don’t know,,, making minor tweaks to the timeline to space out the character development they just,,, completely pulverized it.

They completely mischaracterized all of the crows to the extent that most of them are no longer the same character as they were in the books. To the extent that the messages being portrayed are fundamentally different from the messages and themes of the books.

And no. Pekka Rollins isn’t supposed to know who the fuck they are. He’s supposed to look at kaz and be slightly terrified because he can tell that kaz hates him and kaz is terrifying. But he doesn’t acknowledge him as a real threat because he sees kaz as an inexperienced child trying to be something he’s not until the finale of crooked kingdom. Kaz isn’t Pekka Rollins’s mortal enemy. The feeling isn’t mutual and making it mutual completely mischaracterizes the entire situation.

And honestly, I would prefer the crows to have had absolutely zero character development in the show than whatever the fuck that was. They could have literally just had them do bs find the object side quests and used the time to contextualize their relationships with each other. Have kaz and inej steal the dekappel together. Have kaz get inej out of the menagerie. Show the window scene. Have Jesper drop out of school and join the dregs. Show wylans backstory and how he joined the dregs. Show inej recruiting Nina. Explain why matthias volunteered to fight in the hellshow. Because character development is important. But half baked characters doing random shit due to their badly explained trauma isn’t.

On why Certain Events for the Crows were adapted for SAB Season 2

Spoilers for SAB S2 below and an interview from Eric Heiserrer:

The link is above but the pertinent question that gets answered (brilliantly, imo) is this: why did they choose to adapt so many elements of 'Crooked Kingdom'?

Heisserer explained that using the storyline was "the result of hundreds of hours of discussion with the writer's room," and was not a decision they came to lightly.

"I don't think I can really properly encapsulate all those hours of intense discussion and debate," he said. "But I can give you the highlights, which is that we knew that they needed to face the consequences of betraying Pekka Rollins in Season 1 and we also knew that they'd be in trouble with Dreesen [Sean Gilder], and so all of that sort of gave us the ingredients going into Season 2 of the type of consequences they had to face.

"For the kind of stories that we explored that pitted Kaz against Pekka Rollins, what we discovered after a lot of trial and error was we were essentially just treading water. We were sort of just running in place for those characters, because we were worried about changing something later on that got us too late to, or too early, in their development.

"We also realized that holding them in place so that they were essentially on pause to jump into a Six of Crows storyline meant that the characters didn't grow at all. There were no arcs and our poor actors would be like, 'Why? I'm the same person I am at the end of the season and at the start,' and you never want to hear that."

He went on: "When we realized that we did need to pay off something and advance the story with Pekka and Kaz, and have it mean something—and we also had to explore for a thematic unity Kaz's trauma [and] his back story, which is also deeply tied to Pekka— it felt the best for us to use a canonical story that happens in Crooked Kingdom.

"But we only made that move after we knew what we were going to do in both the Crows and Crooked Kingdom stories, were we to ever get the privilege to explore those."

It may not have been a decision the writers came to easily, but they have already thought of how it could shape the characters' future in the franchise.

Heisserer admitted: "There was, of course, the little small panic in the back of our brains of 'will we ever get to Crooked Kingdom? Maybe, maybe not.' So, this may be our one go to explore that.

"But if we do get there, oh my god, The Wrath of Kahn level [story of] Pekka out of Hellgate [prison] and on a f****** bender to kill all the Crows is going to be amazing."