#i don't get credit for the lilith thing either -- that was a mystery for ten-year-olds
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I'm wildly curious, which if any of the big TOH twists did you see coming? Philip, Lilith as the one who cursed Eda, King's memories being fake, the Titan-Trappers being cosplayers, that sort of thing… (and of course the big one re: Hunter & Grimwalkers.)
i saw lilith cursing eda 100%. i knew that philip was going to end up Relevant to the main plot in some way, but i didn't clock exactly How until elsewhere and elsewhen. i guessed that belos might be human based on his cut ears in eclipse lake.... i didn't put together or understand the grimwalker thing (or the philip-and-his-brother thing) until rafi explained it to me after we watched hollow mind, EVEN THOUGH my brother had been texting me telling me to "pay attention" to the clues at the beginning of eclipse lake and at other points in the series. absolutely didn't even QUESTION that tarrlok was king's dad (or at least related to him).
there WERE a lot of other things i predicted.... except they were all related to characterization, not plot. i'd written fanfic scenes with luz calling hunter family and promising to protect him LOOOONG before TTT or any TTT previews came out. i predicted that luz and hunter were going to switch archetypes & that luz was going to have negative character development between s2 and TTT. i clocked REALLY early that amity's parents were abusive and that she missed willow & didn't actually have ill will toward her. i remember thinking "oh, i'd love to see willow fall apart, but i know she's the Support Friend so they won't actually go there" and then they went there.
when it comes to characterization, character arcs, and relationship dynamics, i'm Really Good at guessing where things are going. just based on the clues we've seen in the canon.
when it comes to plot elements based on similarly obvious clues?? Hopeless. Absolutely Hopeless.
#i don't get credit for the lilith thing either -- that was a mystery for ten-year-olds#there was really no other prime suspect or red herring. it was just like. well yes. obviously it was her.#to the point that i actually thought LILITH might be a red herring herself bc it was so obvious.#i didn't have any fandom exposure when i watched TOH so everything i did or didnt notice was on my own#i watched everything up to the end of s2 just as the finale came out. and i purposefully avoided all the fandom tags for spoiler reasons#at one point i thought the golden guard might be named steve bc i'd seen people really like a guy named steve.#he said 'my name is hunter' and i was like 'oh. yeah i've never heard of this kid.'#LMAO#replies#toh#horrible mindscape trauma pals#tangentially
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