#Viv loves to woobify and coddle shit dads it seems

[hellaverse-critical-confessions]

I don’t really understand why Lucifer is treated like this sad tragic figure when it’s his fault all of humanity is evil and he gets to cry in his rich castle full of servants while his weaker human subjects are victims of genocide and abused daily

Neglectful ruler and neglectful father. The guy's all around pretty useless. /lh

[flower-boi16]

Loo Loo Land Vs Seeing Stars

I previously mentioned before how Seeing Stars is VERY similar to Loo Loo Land in terms of its plot; it almost feels like Viv just wanted to do Loo Loo Land again because of how loved that episode was. The thing is though, Seeing Stars ends up being a complete rehash of Loo Loo Land without understanding what actually made that episode work in the first place.

I already talked about why Seeing Stars's themes and messages fundamentally don't work so I won't go too in-depth here but it's still important to talk about here; Seeing Stars tries to paint Stolas as a father who while heavily flawed and makes mistakes, does love his daughter and is trying his best to take care of her. Loona even says that Octavia should cut him some slack because he's at least trying. I already talked about in detail why this does not work but I think it bares repeating for my point; Seeing Stars wants us to see Stolas as a good dad who while flawed is trying to take care of his daughter, but context from not only the rest of the show but the episode itself contradict that.

Stolas is never shown to be a flawed but good dad in previous episodes, yes he may love his daughter but he's still a shit parent who pays more attention to Blitz than her, and he even focuses more on arguing with Stella than spending time with Octavia, neglecting his own daughter and breaking his promise he made to her.

But the episode ignores all of that in favor once again coddling Stolas pretending he's a good dad when he's not, and even says that Octavia should just cut Stolas some slack cuz he's trying, which, again, doesn't work because Stolas is an objectively terrible parent.

What I find very funny about this is that Loo Loo Land, the episode that Seeing Stars is directly copying portrays Stolas as the exact opposite; the episode doesn't try to pretend that Stolas is a good dad here, it actually admits that he was a pretty terrible one. Unlike Seeing Stars, Loo Loo Land actually has Stolas realize his mistake and that he was hurting his daughter, because he neglected her in favor of an Imp instead, and he decides to take her to a place she actually wants to go called "Stylish Occult", most likely to spend some more time with her.

Stolas actually realizes that his lust for Blitz is hurting his daughter Octavia because she thinks that he'll leave her. The episode actually makes him realize that his daughter isn't happy and decides to fix his mistake. No coddling, no trying to woobify Stolas and absolve him of his mistakes, the episode just says "Stolas fucked up" and has him make things right. I honestly wish we could go back to Season 1, where Stolas wasn't absolved of his mistakes and was actually called about for them by the narrative, I want him to actually grow as a person for once and go through character development, but Season 2 really seems like it doesn't want to do that for some reason, and it's sad to see such good character potential get wasted like this.