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unproduciblesmackdown · 4 days ago

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also like speaking of season four giving winston more of that serious arc of an episode's plotline than it ever would again, it's also made funnier by knowing that was Before they had more actor availability and that they Did actually want to have more like oh boy now we can give you material unhindered....and it being like, what, that they treated winston as more of [as much a character as the others] in season four b/c they couldn't give him the screentime for an episode or two per season to really get to go harder than usual on winston as punching bag & sprinkling in more of that generally in addition to [winston exposits info plot devicely] which he also got in season four? but like yeah. yeah i think that was it

#and because what; like; even the side characters it decided were people were given such focus & care in their arcs ever #really abysmal like rian the corresponding Winner quant a) with them from the start like oh rian's important & b) rian's too good too pure #like okay what do they do w/ this Important; Deserving Role? plot devicery culminating as [rian = a vagina] for a less than pointless arc #even amidst the like main-er characters Tier like taylor is important & in getting to contrast with everyone else in that tier #has this flexibility & capacity to that character & they decide oh yeah taylor cares about ethics sometimes so this role also ought to #just get plenty of material & with more complexity than any that e.g. axe can be particularly tied up in. And Yet #instead of flourishing like okay season four this rules but billions is like No More Of That just like w/kompenso quant haunt scenes #season seven like Everything thrown into a ditch in service of wendy your new god as was always that Complex(tm) Good(tm) role's destiny #& certainly taylor in particular is too; all the more egregious when obviously this role Ought to be the center of this finale #so like yeah. billions was like oh yay finally we can have more elaborate power trip fantasies of abusing winston. like truly #winston billions #sorry to all of us like lord....#two sides same coin riawin unbeknownst to billions w/plots hinging on what billions decided their junk must be like? standing ovation #one of those plots with victim blaming & that's basically it. & the second with uh let's see....victim blaming & that's it. second ovation #both roles getting to go nowhere & discarded for no especial reason other than [no one is relevant in wendy's god ascension arc] wow #ascending is right; above & beyond....

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