#iT PISSED ME OFF TO NO END WHEN NUREYEV SHUT DOWN JUNOS MONOLOGUE LIKE THEY SHUT DOWN RITAS RAMBLING

[smidgen-of-hotboy]

Bestie please give us your rita rant🙏

Rita's used as an exposition device. A lot.

Got some new gadget for Juno for his comms? Rita explains it. Wanna write foreshadowing? Let Rita ramble about a stream and cut her off.

She is a side character so I understand not focusing on her a bunch. But she's Juno's best friend. He cares about her, and it's because of that care he doesn't want her to follow him to the Trash-teroid. She isn't built for the field as Juno points out and I get that.

But she is so insanely smart and taught herself coding and even she can't figure out her own locks. Rita has so many niche interests and we never get to hear half of them because someone is almost always cutting her off. She provides excellent help and great commentary like a sports news caster.

The whole point of Mega Ultrabots was that Rita feels inadequate and like she's always messing things up. And Juno tries reassure her that isn't the case. And we ended last season with Juno going "RITA! just the lady i was looking for". And then this episode he just- shoos her away. And that rubbed me wrong.

AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON NUREYEV’S TREATMENT OF HER- Nureyev swooped in after Juno to do the reassurance bit but like. Cmon. He's pissy right now. He did that to quiet her and get them moving again.