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whitmore · 2 years ago

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ugh i GUESS i’ll meta abt camney (any opinions from like season two onwards are all absorbed through reading the public discourse abt it i haven’t actually seen it so like take it with a grain of salt i might be a little off)

idk as someone who was very anti-camney from the get-go it’s wild to see how poorly it’s been written continuously and even how their ending was just so lackluster. for a relationship that’s meant to be the primary love interest of the show it really just undermined the plot (in season one at least imo, it seems the trend continued from what i’ve read) and was pre-installed shock value; cutting cameron’s scenes in season one was perhaps one of the most devastating blows to the series overall because it expected us as the viewer to play along with the idea that cameron was just a Nice Boy, despite the show itself never really deciding a direction or angle for him. it felt like he didn’t have an arc because they cut everything but the bare bones of his character for season one, leaving the audience confused and without a foundation for his motives, which is entirely different from writing him as a mysterious son of a villain because the show’s writing really SEEMED like it was trying to talk about cameron’s motive and origin but the ridiculous amount of contradictions and cutting that happened meant that it said nothing at all about cameron

and maybe the end of season 2 and season 3 talked about it more maybe there’s more emphasis on cameron’s reasoning and his beliefs and more intrigue as to why him and courtney actually LIKE each other, but their foundational meeting and introduction feels so fabricated i don’t know how much retconning of season one and prior can fix the miswriting/editing of their relationship at its core

#stargirl #idk i feel like how they wrote cameron and camney was such a misstep given the fact she’s the MAIN CHARACTER #the way he’s portrayed to the audience is incredibly misguided because the show can’t decide if they want us to believe in camney or not #which is a bad move! you as a show should have a stance on the main relationship! you are writing the relationship!#it can’t decide if we as the audience should be viewing it as tragic young lovers or the major otp or if we should see cameron as deranged #and that’s bad! and sadly they’re not writing some really intriguing love story they’re being so adamantly vague to play to all sides #and it’s bad writing. we should say it it is just bad writing #like genuinely the show almost sets up cindy to be her love interest instead of cameron. it’s crazy like the only difference is that the sho #believes that you should believe they (camney) like each other. that’s it #man it’s so frustrating there’s so much more they could have done if they didn’t write it this way but it really hindered the show #anti camney #eleanor.txt

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