#gonna be posting about characters and other things like cellbits use of game mechanics for heavy story moments soon as wel

[gingersp1ce547]

Themes of o segredo na floresta (spoilers included)

Im gonna start this with a comment i left on episode 4

“I've experienced a lot of stories and even more character deaths, but i think Christopher's is one of my all time favorites. Usually in media, when a character dies we see their death and everyone's reactions to it but then there is a jump and though the other characters had most likely not processed fully their grief we don't get to see the gritty details of everything immediately after the death itself.

But in this episode, we do get to see it. We watch as the team mourns, digs a grave for Christopher and tries their best to cope with his death (even if those methods did result in messy situations for a few).

There's something incredibly beautiful to me about the realistic part of a supernatural horror story being the process the characters go through in regards to accepting deaths. It feels as if it almost says "No matter what has happened, all of us feel this pain together," and from what i can tell so far with Ordem a big theme is that our connections with the people we hold dear are all we can really hold onto in a world filled with chaos and strife and fuck if that isn't beautiful.”

This is something that i was very very happy to see carried on throughout the season. Both in terms of the handling of the scoundrel vultures deaths and the escape from the holy cradle. The world and tone of ordem paranormal demands that you really sit in the despair and suffering of its hardest moments and it makes the small ones where the characters prevail or have get to laugh feel even more impactful.

Especially in a season so determined by death, i feel another big theme of it that intertwines with the one i mentioned in the comment is that of enjoying the moments you have with those you love no matter how short they are, and not fearing when that time comes to end because at least you got to have that time instead of none.

Once again i was really happy to see such strong themes throughout this story because i find at least that creating thematic points in a collective improved role play setting such as a ttrpg can be really hard and cellbit pulled it off well, especially in comparison to the first season though i do think that is mostly because of the shortness of that season

Looking forward to see what themes present themselves in desconjuração