#Zoya deserved better

[lilisouless]

its over, they cancelled it

[vic-the-bookdragon]

Yes, yes, yes. We get it. Alina is the star of the show, the protagonist and blah blah blah.

But Zoya...IS THE QUEEN OF RAVKA.

I didn't expect them to stick to the books precisely, but I didn't expect them to rob a woman of her arc just to uplift another one.

So disappointed.

[sampigehoovu]

everytime I watch Zoya Factor, I have to read the Zoya Factor to cleanse myself.

[mattnott]

i don’t understand how a father can look at his wife and daughters and think they don’t deserve rights, that’s insane

[thechaoticrow]

the darkling is the andrew tate of the grishaverse

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

zoyalina ruling ravka as eternal grisha queens, the first in history, with a power never seen before, making a haven for their people and spending infinities together.

malkolai as pirate husbands who travel the seas ten times over and occasionally cross paths with a fearsome wraith who they hassle into a surprisingly well-mannered tea party aboard their ship.

[samsknives]

i understand that alina is literally the main character of the original s&b trilogy, but the way it ended pissed me tf off. zoya’s storyline in KoS & RoW is something that is really important to, not only me, but so many people. and they’re sort of giving some of it to alina if she is going to become queen. one of the major plot points of nikolai’s duology was zoya becoming the FIRST grisha queen, and if alina is going to be married to nikolai it would be her. don’t get me wrong, i love alina, but giving her things that another female poc character in the series gets is completely unfair to zoya.

im really mad about all of this.

like zoya’s character development is something that is really important to me, because i relate to her a lot, and alina is amazing and i love her, but i don’t think that she should be given other characters major plot points.

[juliaswickcrs]

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the legacy of Zoya Onasi and Rey Kestis

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[restinslices]

Idk who needs to hear this but it’s ok to agree with The Darkling’s ideas but not his methods.

The Darkling had every right to hate non Grisha and his plan made sense. Make it so Grisha are no longer mistreated and use the fold (which I’m pretty sure is an accident in the show and the books, but I could be wrong) as a weapon so Grisha can never be attacked again. It makes sense. He wants to be a savior for Grisha. His methods though? Fucking atrocious. Saying he did absolutely nothing wrong is wild asf to me. He manipulates and becomes so codependent when it comes to teenage girls. He manipulated Zoya, he allows Genya to be assaulted by the king so she can be a spy for him then later scars her, he manipulates Alina, tries to control her powers, threatens to skin her alive if Mal can’t find the second amplifier, he kills several people and I’m pretty sure threatened to murder an entire orphanage plus the other crazy shit he did in the books. He had a great idea that I can stand behind. He’s not wrong for fighting back. He’s wrong for the other wild shit he did and refuses to apologize for. And even if he did apologize, it probably wouldn’t be enough.

You can like The Darkling as a villain. You can find him hot. I love Ben Barnes and I love villains. I have been a Loki lover since Thor. I loved Bucky as The Winter Soldier. The Alpha Pack from Teen Wolf will always own my heart. But this mf Alexander is like Thanos; spitting real shit but has a shit plan. Thanos was spitting when he said the world doesn’t have enough resources but committing genocide instead of just doubling the resources when he had the power to do so is crazy.

Back to The Darkling, you can like him but don’t act like he did absolutely nothing wrong cause I’m never letting go of the bullshit he put Genya through.

[fubureaders]

did they end the reboot today ON PURPOSE?????

[wafflesandkruge]

i think the zoyalai fandom has to be the most annoying to netflix right now with how everyone is constantly demanding content and i love it! lets keep up the energy 😌

The only thing I want from Netflix are the paddy and sujaya bts photos otherwise they can go choke 😭

[lilisouless]

Reminder what the show forgot , all this people love Nina Zenik so you should too

[mrs-jamesbbarnes]

I’m making memes again.

But for real, what is with the bangs and why did it feel like the Darkling was trying to replace Zoya?

[sukibenders]

one thing that i'm glad amita suman got to talk about during this con in france is how she plays inej's trauma even though oftentimes it's not in the fucking script, which pisses me off. i'm glad amita has found a way to make the choices that she does, but still. the crows' storylines are very rich, with a lot of unpacking and heaviness and dark topics, and they shouldn't have added the crows if they knew they couldn't do that justice.

hell, they haven't even really done characters like zoya justice either. she should have a bit more screentime than she does. i'm just sad because they have cast members who do care about the books, and who do seem so excited to play these characters, but the show itself is a bit messy.

Oh yeah, I completely understand. I didn't see that panel, but I have seen interviews where she talks about Inej's trauma (that fight in s2) because, without her saying that and knowing what I know in the books I wouldn't have really known that she had a traumatic past, or the extent of it. It's very sad to see that while they go into some aspects of Kaz's trauma (tho I have mixed feelings about how they portray it) they don't do the same justice with Inej. You mean to tell me that the girl who, in the books, has a literal panic attack when just walking past the Menagerie can, in the show, not only walk in but also disarm herself and be totally cool in front of the woman, and possibly man given what he was saying to her ("that one's new" when talking about her knives as she removes them) who abused her? And the way they made her flip her hair during the scene to make it a cool moment was so unnecessary. Inej has a touch aversion in her own way, but you wouldn't know that from the show. Mind you, it was made by the same people who, when in regards to her scene with Toyla, said on social media "sometimes all you need is a little skin" about not only two (or maybe just one) original teenagers but also one, who suffers from PTSD and has a touch aversion because of it, but also the other, who is aroace coded. Like they got dragged so bad that they tried to cover it up as if it didn't happen.

And with Zoya, you can tell that they were just going for the mean girl route added in a quick redemption (why they make her racist?) just for it, but then never bothered to do anything else with her storyline. Like in the books she is nearly forced into a child marriage, at the age of nine, and only "agreed to it" to please her mother who was known to pimp her out from the start. And then had to watch the only person who cared about her at the time get beat just for protecting her. Like Zoya was more than just a mean girl that many in the fandom tried to perceive her as just because Alina didn't like her at the start. I had assumed, maybe in some way, that the show would take into consideration her past and through showing her relationship with the Darkling would show how she possibly fell victim to another predatory relationship because of, not only, the status it brought her but the protection as well (in her backstory it is stated that she had to split meals and steal food so that she and her mother could eat, as well as her mother intentionally attempting to marry her off to a wealthy man, so it can be assumed that she didn't have much prior to being sent to the Little Palace) adding with the fact that she was a Grisha. Even without the "romantic" plot in the show, it can still be assumed that she was mad at Alina because she viewed her as stealing her place, which was next to someone who could provide protection (which she needed as a child). But the show didn't do that, aside from possibly scraping her storyline and giving it to Alina.

Zoya and Inej, my two favorite girlies, I'm so sorry.

[our-king-bree]

this is no hate to Zoya at all cause like I haven't -and won't- read kos so I haven't see her development but how come she can became the avatar of the grishaverse and a fucking dragon but Alina couldn't keep her powers cause it was "too much power for a single grisha" like..... if Leigh had explained this please let me know but I feel it's a bit unfair

[sarascamander]

Okay but if the hypothetical season 3 is based on King of Scars, I think it'd be funny to have Count Kirigan around. Like this guy is just there trying to have a good day but everybody refused to call him by his name and he was stuck as "Jared" instead 😂