#like millie having no development whatsoever in s1 isnt 'fixed'
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can you elaborate on your feelings on vassago?
this blogs becoming what i use to kill time while i wait for my laundry to finish hi. first thing i did today was spill my entire water bottle on my bed. i think vassago is, at best, introduced too early, and at worst, shouldn't exist.
best case is that i think they gave him a poor introduction with functionally no personality outside of 'are you winning son' 'OMG STOLAS!' i genuinely don't get what people like about him. he doesn't do or say anything substantial. it's bc he's yaoi bait and that's it
worst case i think he's just a bad character for the plot. it seems like this dude has some history with stolas (if we ignore that stolas awkwardly does not acknowledge the weird fan behaviour whatsoever lmfaoooo) when stolas was like…established to be living this miserable lonely friendless life. no one likes stolas and he's not respected by his peers. he seems to have pretty bad people skills, and that's being generous. the one real light he has in his life aside from his affair partner (an affair of which should be motivated by that loneliness), allegedly his daughter…and fucking guy we've never heard of until now hiii vassago hi!!! i'll eat my words if i'm wrong but i can't really fathom how stolas having 1 guy who's been in his corner this whole time aids in his narrative, like, at all.
utterly baffling introduction. it's awkward and bizarre. it acts like we should already know who this guy is, almost. if he's going to be important later, fine, but he should've been introduced later then. mastermind was basically nothing. it's barely an introduction at all. equivalent of like, someone asking me to introduce myself, and all i say for 5 minutes is I UFUCKING LOVE THE COLOUR YELLOW, like ok. what else man
#ask#helluva boss critical#i dont buy the whole 'they needed to introduce him now/its a series it'll feel more natural later!' thing either#his intro will still feel awkward and stilted if in 1 millenia he ends up being a christ-like figure in history#also i'm a firm believer that you shouldnt have to wait for a payoff for writing to feel 'functional'#if the writing is questionable and unengaging in the moment then its not working. it shouldn't need to be patched later#a satisfying payoff shouldn't come at the cost of previous events feeling worthwhile#especially with the gaps between episodes this show has#like millie having no development whatsoever in s1 isnt 'fixed'#because they finally decided to attempt it (poorly) in s2 lol#tl;dr i dont want to say he shouldnt exist bc im sure he'll need to for a badly written plot in s3#but his intro is so ass
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