#note: this is critical of helluva

[viiolettestars]

A HELLUVA REWRITE ♡♡♡

♡DISCLAIMER:THIS IS CRITICAL OF HELLUVA BOSS♡

♡DISCLAIMER:I DO NOT SUPPORT VIVZIEPOP OR HER ACTIONS♡

◇NOTE: English is NOT my first language so there might be some mistakes◇

◇◇◇Blitzø Buckzo◇◇◇

• Boss of I.M.P.

• Husband of Verosika Mayday (fight me)

• Adoptive father of Loona(17)

•I.M.P.•

◇ Blitzø basically started I.M.P. to support him and Loona since Verosika basically has her own money but uses some of it to support Blitzø's business.

•The emoloyees•

Millie- Blitzø met Millie during a trip in the Wrath ring. His van broke down and Millie's family basically took them (blitzø, Verosika and loona) in until the van is fixed. He told the family about his business and Millie was somewhat intrigued. She always wanted to see what earth looked like. So, she went with blitzø and became his first employee.

•The pilot•

The pilot starts with millie and blitzø figuring out how can they go to the living world and start their business since they don't know how to build a portal. Blitzø considers visiting his old friend the goetia prince himself, Stolas. He's quite scared to visit him since they weren't in good terms and if you weren't with good terms with the prince, you are up for a good ol' beheading. He tells his fears to Millie and Millie then tells him to face his fears (blah blah you get it) and lifts him towards the company van.

The rest of the pilot follows the three, Blitzø, Millie and Loona to the goetia prince's palace while also fighting some sinners on the way (woo bloodshed!!!!), and getting distracted by a carnival. They fight demons there too( woo bloodshed part 2!!!). After a few hours later, they finally arrive at the palace. They are greeted by the prince Stolas himself and gestures them to come in. Millie and Loona basically had fun in the palace, meeting and chatting with Stella, Stolas' wife, and Octavia, the daughter. While the females are having fun, Stolas pulls Blitzø aside and had a talk with him. Stolas agreed to lend him the book, much to Blitzø's relief, BUT on one condition. He gives Stolas his own soul, which means, the prince can do ANYTHING with Blitzø,(this is where the sex deal comes in)basically making him his very own puppet. Blitzø refuses at first but stolas threatens on beheading Blitzø, so, he agrees, much to a satisfied Stolas. Blitzø then exits the room, greeted by Millie and Loona. Millie asks him what's wrong but he brushes it off. Millie accepts his answer but is still suspicious about Blitzø. They go home and drink some whiskey and watched a movie. Blitzø is still paranoid about the deal.

•♡◇ THE END•♡◇

By: Vii

[chinesegal]

Stolas' "I've always thought so highly of you, I didn't think you think so low of me" is some disgusting, manipulative gaslighting. Its what abusive people do when called out for their actions: try to deflect by victimizing themselves and make the person they hurt look unreasonable.

I hate that there aren't more ppl who realize how manipulative and gaslighty this is.

[p0rk-guts]

Oh my god I just realized. The imps have black blood. All hellborn have black blood. Their blush should be grey.

[sludgekludge]

what even was the point of wanting to make helluva about 'messy romance and complex characters' if they can't commit to that at even the most basic level. the narrative will just decide that a character has done wrong without explaining what or how, it'll completely ignore or justify legitimately dubious things, it's so desperate to tell you exactly how to feel about certain characters...

stella's dialogue is so cartoonishly on-the-nose evil and she has no actual motivations. none of stolas' mistakes are acknowledged until now, 2 seasons in (and even then, they're trying to justify them), half the stolitz-related conflicts are almost comically childish. blitz yelled at stolas, which is mean. instead of looking at this with nuance, blitz is in the wrong, and stolas is not. there is a wrong party and a right party, every time. there are no shades of grey.

where's the complexity? these characters range from cardboard to slightly thicker cardboard with maybe a drawing of a frowny face on it, except the frowny face changes colours every time you look at it because the writers worship inconsistencies.

[komaedasass]

I really wish Stella had more character to her. I don’t have anything against being evil for evil’s sake - but there is really nothing going for her character, which is a shame because I feel like she has the potential to be compelling. She’s not the only female character in the series that I wish were better written - I feel like that about most of the female characters that we see.

[oceansarepink]

“Wait how can we communicate to the audience that a character is abusive?”

How about

we animate an angry

Backhanding

Slap scene?

[sweetshelluvaau]

As much as I still love Fizz, I don't like how Vizize has a habit of 'woobie-izng' her characters in order to make them sympathetic. A character can still be an asshole while the audience can still have sympathy for them, or at least understand that they're in a bad situation (Starscream from Transformers is one good example depending on who's writing him).

Taking away someone's bite/nerfing them and turning them into a sad boi isn't good writing, it's just lazy.

[thesupernaturalhouse]

Okay I sorry but I gotta share this it is SO fucking funny, I am laughing so hard I cant-

It also makes a lot of good points about the writing and plot hotels and stuff

And here's one of the best parts. Took me 5 minutes to stop laughing

[heavens-angriest-winner]

the good part of this episode was that the next episode is not coming out anytime soon

[victoriansnakearts]

Ive been liking the strella Halloween merch

But I’m hoping they aren’t made to be canon, I can’t stand one of my top ships being ruined by awful writing 😭

I feel like almost all hellaverse ships are better in fanon versus canon, I just don’t think couples in the show are well written (they either range from too perfect or just toxic, borderline abusive, there’s no in between)

[viiolettestars]

The new hb short sure is something huh

My thoughts:

First of all it's actually good? It shows the ACTUAL plot of the show(that somehow flew away like a bird) and I enjoyed it! (And there are people who said if the show followed the original plot it will be boring like shut up).

Second of all, why would the crystal need lust to activate it???? The incubus guy and Barbie Wire from the Unhappy Campers episode didn't need lust to make the crystal work??? So??? Viv. What. Was. That.

Lastly, penguins saying slurs? Wha-

Also blitz needs some help with his feelings. The damage St*las did to this man goddamn.

(Oh and the mittens on their tails ARE SO CUUTEE and MOXXIE'S GAME??? Good for him ig?)

[morecowbell7]

It's absolutely soul-crushing how the industry treats animation so badly that we've gone from the industry standard season of animated television being 20-30 episodes long to 10-12 episodes long. Like think about how many episodes were in seasons of Adventure Time in 2011. And now think of how many episodes were in Hazbin Hotel. This post isn't specifically about Hazbin, but I watched that recently so it's what I'm going to talk about. Hazbin Hotel is 8 episodes long. That is so fucking depressing for many reasons. It signals to me that the industry standard for animation is only getting worse, people have waited almost a decade for this show to come out only to be disappointed with the almost painfully short run time. On top of that season 2 supposedly won't come out until 2027. Too many showrunners already have to work under this immense pressure nowadays to fit everything they want into a 12 episode season, which is already ludicrous to me, but an 8 episode season??? It feels like Amazon set the show up to fail. Watching the show, it felt like the writers panicked because they didn't know if they would be able to develop every character properly (which is to some degree on them as writers for not shortening the main cast or only focusing on 2 or 3 leads, but the stupid short number of episodes ordered did not help them) which leads to the entire show feeling way too fast paced and rushed. I hope we can get out of this rut, I'm excited to see where this show goes but the way it was handled leaves me feeling grim towards the state of cartoons as a whole.

[yourlocalpurplelover]

•VEROSIKA REDESIGN•

I love her so much ♡♡♡♡

Bonus:

Silly little animation cuz I have no life ♡♡♡

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

people think Alastor an evil brilliant manipulator. then they need to watch Death Note and see Light and now a really brilliant manipulator works. (and by death note i mean the anime, not the live action crap movie. the movie sucks. the anime is great)

I agree. Alastor wishes he could be like him.

[histrionicscribbler]

people on this website are notoriously unable to be normal about things they love, but less discussed is the inability to be normal about things they hate and only one of those is a problem imo

[aster-spiral-30]

Worst-written TV shows I’ve seen in my short life so far:

-Girls (HBO)

(only for a few episodes, I had raw hatred for every single character in it)

-Hannibal (NBC)

(I sat through all of that godawful AO3 fanfic -Michael Mann, Jonathan Demme, & Ridley Scott movies are superior adaptations)

-Yellowstone

(Only for a few episodes, mighty Christ, how I hate the Dutton family except for their abused lawyer/ slave)

-Death Note

(the first show I regretted watching as I got older, not a single likable or interesting character in there- kill em all)

-American Horror Story after HOTEL

(only the teasers & intros are good after that)

Shows like Velma & Big Mouth were way too obvious- those shows are so bad that it’s not even worth making fun of ‘em.

…Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel are on the thinnest ice you can imagine.

Watch Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Fargo (the movie & the show), The Sopranos, True Detective (seasons 1 & 4), I Think You Should Leave, The Boys, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Cuphead Show, & The Regular Show instead.