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koohiss · 8 years

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on my second episode of emerald city, and lemme say, i am 200% here for the aesthetic and worldbuilding. This perfectly offsets the fact that i am -100% here for the awkward writing and characters. The episodes just don’t make sense, narratively, they don’t have pacing, it’s all... kerfunkled. Making any character played by vincent dinofrio poorly written is an accomplishment, so they should be proud of that i guess.

#feel free to ignore me #tag rant #i feel bad to say it because i wanted it to be good!#but it's not!#there was no logic to why characters did things #lucas is the archetypical masculine male love interest with all the overprotective and controlling and need to advise the female character #and dark violent past that they have to overcome! together!#(probably with sex)#(or at least making out a lot)#(A LOT JUDGING BY THE TRAILERS)#i wanted to like dorothy!#but she's being extremely selfish + illogical #(which is a dangerous combo)#and i get that she has to be that way to push the ~mystery~ around her mom into the spotlight every episode #it just really feels like the plot is pt A to pt B #and the characters are shallow topical archetypes that only act to move that narrative from one (admittedly impressive) bit of scenery #to the next #ditto for almost all the characters #the only characters with any depth are the witches and the wizard #and even they have issues #SERIOUS ARCHETYPING ISSUES #(which: lemme caveat #archetypes can be good #if you use them right #which. eh. they have not done yet)#bc the north is the typical ice queen #controlling mother figure #scheming etc #and the west? east?#she is a brothel madam

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