hi I don't have the comics (can't get them at the moment for personal reasons) and I don't really care about spoilers so can you tell me who d is I'm intrigued
HE'S JUST THE BAD GUY IN ISSUE 1 and future issues that I haven't read. Idk if he's the main bad guy of the whole comic but he's The Antagonist of 1 at the very least.
Spoilers under the cut
He takes over a museum and makes a game where Bomens get to keep any art they can accurately guess they value of and he walks around with Noah, but they basically just google it instead lmao. D gets super pissed cuz he's an art elitist or some shit and orders his crew to kill Bomens, they escape with some paintings, it's all very good groundwork for shipping. I like to headcanon that D and Noah are total opposites when it comes to culture, D is a huge snob, Noah doesn't give a fuck about it, that kind of thing
Knives Out tricked the audience by revealing one character's entire, honest perspective of the murder super early in, and Glass Onion tricked the audience by withholding huge chunks of the setup until the halfway point
I love it on both ends, it's delightful it's the cinema version of an unreliable narrator
thinking about how in freshman year coach daybreak quite literally tried to kill kristen to bring the apocalypse (AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS) and upon being told this her own parents turned their back on kristen and said (paraphrasing), “thats not true and you cant prove that.”
thinking about junior year where kristen’s parents SAY shes always welcome to come back anytime and in an effort to keep the peace she says “thank you, thats very kind” HER OWN PARENTS!! ITS NOT KIND, ITS THE BARE MINIMUM! but mac and donna will never see it that way, because to them they didnt fail kristen, she failed them.
ALSO thinking about adaine’s parents who so obviously had no real love for adaine until she had use as elven oracle. and even then it wasnt love, it was a power grab. parents who start a war and leave without you. parents who only cared about power to the extent that they would be angered by adaine revoking aelwyns diplomatic immunity.
arianwen who truly could not understand that adaine was talking about when she called her mother cruel, and angwyn who thought he could “fix” adaine BY CASTING LIGHTNING AT HER
anyway, big long post about the parallels between these specific Bad Parents (and literal bad parents)
can't stop thinking about akilah's "we can still get him out of there" because it was so obvious to her. obviously we're going to save this kid, right? her look of confusion and panic when she's told to wait, when everyone else stands there watching, when she feels like she has no option but to do the same -- even after he dies and everyone finally moves and she's still confused because she can't fathom any of this. she couldn't fathom killing nat either, the way everyone stood there and stared while she turned her entire body away so she wouldn't have to watch, the way she doesn't even look relieved when she doesn't draw the queen card because someone still has to die, the way that everyone grabbed a weapon leaving the cabin except for her. but not wanting anyone to die, trying to help, not wielding her own weapon doesn't absolve her of any guilt because she was still a willing participant in all of this, she still stood by, and she has to live (gets to live!) with that. she's been clinging to life all season but she is surrounded by death and it's only getting harder for her to ignore.