#saw an absolutely garbage RVB take

[immortal-dreamer]

(Eldin Ring Font) BAD TAKE BLOCKED

[rwdestuffs]

The show as a whole, and this blog moving forward.

Nothing is perfect.

Literally nothing. Take your favorite series. A comic book, a video game, a movie, television show, a manga series, or a book series, and you’ll eventually find someone who says that there was a problem with it.

Nothing is total garbage either. Take your least favorite series, and you’ll eventually come across someone who took valuable and good lessons from it.

Take TeamFourStar for example. On multiple occasions, they have made fun of Dragonball and have criticized decisions made by Akira Toriyama. This is despite them being huge fans of the franchise as a whole. They acknowledge that what they like isn’t perfect, and they’re not afraid to point out the flaws in it.

Or take anyone who covers a franchise. They’ll find flaws and behind the scenes things that, to the average viewer, they wouldn’t have realized was a thing.

Now, the inner workings and behind the scenes issues at RoosterTeeth is another topic for someone far more qualified than me, but there are many problems within the company that affect the show, RWBY, as a whole. For example, their rather blatant frat-like environment and professionalism makes for a bad understanding of major topics like abuse, trauma, and discrimination. Not counting their many associations with predators, these guys have had a bad track record with their hires.

But a major problem with the show, and by extension, the company, is an unwillingness to acknowledge their past mistakes and lack of attempts to make up for them to ensure that they wouldn’t happen again.

Take the racism issue within the show. Miles openly claims that the reason is sucks so bad is because he’s a white guy. But then his fans defend him by saying that he’s half Mexican. Add to the fact that we have no real proof that Miles is actually talking to minorities about how discrimination works, and that they kinda dropped the whole racism arc after Blake and Yang killed Adam, the show… has no reason for that whole thing anymore.

Now, I get it. They had a few reasons to add racism to their show despite them being awful at portraying it, and the negativity it brings. One was that they just wanted to say “don’t be a dick to people who look different from you.” and the other is basically to have an issue that wasn’t tied to the grimm (I hope. If it turns out that Salem is responsible for the racism, the show is basically irredeemable at that point in regards to that particular subplot, and nobody is allowed to invalidate any Person of Color’s feelings on the subject). The issue was that they didn’t want to get uncomfortable with the whole thing. They didn’t want to deal with the heavy subjects. So, instead of actually showing the racism, they merely talked about it.

Slave labor, cave-ins, a lack of respect- none of that was shown. All we got was generic bullying, which ultimately made the White Fang look as if they were dishing out retribution for minor offenses. This wasn’t a good look.

Other media have done racism better, even fantasy racism was better portrayed by the X-Men. So to see that RWBY, a show made by nerds botched it that badly?- It hurts. It hurts a lot.

Now, yes. There are also other media that have been absolute garbage when it came to racism, even the fantasy kind. I’m not aware of any off the top of my head, but I think one that did it pretty poorly would be Star Wars. Mostly in regards to their droids. We don’t really see any major repercussions about how they’re treated on Tatooine, and it’s kinda dropped. Luke even tries to trade R2 and C3PO to Jabba, and doesn’t do it in person. Anakin treated his droids better. The emotionally unstable guy who ultimately became the emperor’s attack dog was the least racist person, at least in regards to droids, in the galaxy by the time the OT came by.

So is that it? A really big, famous, and successful franchise did racism worse?

No. That’s not it. Because like I said, take your favorite movie, and you’ll find someone who has an issue with it.

The same applies to RWBY. This show had so much going for it. For starters, nobody else has been as successful with something like this. A fully animated series with a major overarching plot that is produced completely by an internet company.

So, expectations were high. And when the show failed to deliver, it hurt.

We had characters that were great, but who had interesting character traits dropped for unknown reasons. Ruby’s obsession with weapons was unceremoniously dropped for no real reason. Like HBomb said in his overall review of the show, if there was an arc where Ruby and Jaune were to develop a new weapon together, and that in the future, we’d see it in action and that it would include all the fancy tech of the other weapons while still staying true to the weapon it was, that would have been really great and awesome to see.

But instead… We get… Jaune having to cover for his cheating his way into Beacon. We get Jaune constantly harassing Weiss to go to the dance. We get Pyrrha thirsting after Jaune for… Reasons.

So many things in earlier seasons were dropped for reasons that don’t make sense.

At least with Weiss, they dropped her racism because “it doesn’t sell well.” And yes. That is what I’m assuming they dropped it for. They saw that Weiss sales weren’t as big as the other girls, so they dropped the racism altogether, and decided to say that she was against her father’s racism the whole time and wanted to better the company.

They could’ve had her say “It was easier to blame the Faunus instead of my father for what happened.” and that probably would have made everything feel more natural. Instead of acknowledging this mistake, the writers decided to drop it altogether and pretend that it never happened.

These guys have also portrayed major real life problems and showed them as jokes, or not as bad.

Take what Sun did for example. Because he decided to stow away on a boat and steal from a fruit stand for funsies, Weiss is actually justified in her rhetoric towards him. He did multiple illegal things in succession right in front of them! Sun didn’t steal because they wouldn’t serve him and it was the only way for him to get food, he didn’t stow away because the ticket guy assumed that he stole a legitimately purchased ticket, he did it for fun. Then he decided to stalk Blake after she had a breakdown and was in a lot of emotional turmoil. And… It’s apparently okay, because he cares about her.

For a character that they decided to say was the victim of abuse, they really didn’t seem to want to portray that as a problem until her abuser did it.

Yang thrashing the nightclub in her trailer?- Apparently not a good look for her to seem violent. So it gets dropped instead of being used as proof that she would attack Mercury unprovoked in volume 3. What’s the count on me pointing out how awesome that would have been again?

And instead of actually understanding the problem, they decided to have Tai make unfair comparisons to Raven, call her soul a “temper tantrum”, essentially say that it was a bad thing for her to rush in against Adam for because she wanted to save Blake (And then the show decides to reward Jaune for similar, albeit more selfish behavior), they decided to try and justify Tai’s comments after she was taught to “not be so hotheaded” and make her a hothead again, probably because a lot of people pointed out that Yang wasn’t really a hothead who never thought in earlier volumes. These guys decided to retroactively justify Tai’s comments, after said comments were supposed to fix the problem. Tai wasn’t even being a father in those scenes, he was being Miles’ mouthpiece.

And then there’s Oz.

Retroactively, I think I get what they’re trying to do. If everyone had known that going into the hunter business meant throwing your body at an immortal opponent, they probably wouldn’t apply to begin with. Nobody is prepared for that, and I think it’s important for people to understand that nobody is prepared for that, so that maybe we shouldn’t be so harsh in jumping at these characters’ throats for pointing that out. Yes, this is vaguing to someone in particular, but that’s not the point. The WoR on aura was narrated by Salem. Who should logically know by this point why Oz keeps coming back, as opposed to the WoR that sorta suggested that maybe reincarnation was his semblance.

In all honesty, it probably would’ve been cooler if it was, as opposed to some god saying “Hey, fix this problem that’s not really being a problem for me. I’m bored and I want to see a good soap opera.”

And really?- Naming your big bad villain after a time when women were falsely prosecuted? What?- Is the show trying to say that women that are abused will become villains and that they have to work through it on their own without a real support system or they’ll become villains that men have to be tasked with stopping? Sounds to me that the writers’ Texas education is seeping into the writing.

Instead of using the lore or characterization that was already established, the writers decided to just keep adding on instead of building on what they already had. Yang being a mother figure to Ruby?- Gone. Jaune wanting to prove that he could be a hero despite his lack of training and his bumbling attitude?- Also gone. Blake being a strong advocate for equality?- Gone. The many hints that Oz’s semblance is what allowed him to reincarnate?- See ya. The hints that Blake was missing one of, if not both of her parents?- Adios.

The writers didn’t really think through character dialogue. And that’s because they’re more used to using pre-established characters. Their last work was RvB’s Chorus Arc, where they had characters that were already characters. They didn’t need to build anything except for a few new ones that would bounce off of the old ones. Say what you want about RvB:Zero, but it actually made use of the new characters it established while only having them bounce off of one already established… And that season is basically just an excuse to make a bunch of cool fight scenes. Seriously. After each fight, I expect Wiz and Boomstick to show up and explain to the audience how and why the fight went the way it did. Then again, that might have to do with their most famous animator animating and being part of the directing process of the current season, but I digress.

The writers aren’t professional. They’ve established this. They’ve also unceremoniously ditched the people closest to Monty. You’d think that after his death, they would’ve reached out to Sheena and said something like “Hey, I know we’re all going through a rough time, but do you want to work with us on this? You were close to Monty, and we think that he would’ve loved for you to be on board with the process.”

But no. She gets shut out, as does Shane. As does a lot of other people close to him.

And then more shit gets piled up, and more problems become more noticeable.

This didn’t feel like a passion project anymore, it felt more like another IP for them to make a profit off of. Hence why we didn’t get any major sexuality reveals until recently (as of me writing this). These guys want to profit as much as they can, and while I understand that they need to have money to put food on the table, dragging out things isn’t the way to go. Neither is rushing past things. The pacing feels off. Nothing feels like it’s going at appropriate speeds anymore, and more and more questionable decisions keep popping up.

Like… Why is Penny’s father a person of color when she’s white?- There’s so many implications behind that that it hurts. Could’ve made them both white.

Why is Ironwood’s semblance basically a neurodivergent aspect of the brain that is effectively the reason why he’s going full dictator? (Personally, if they had kept Ruby’s weapons obsession, that could have worked as a positive representation of what I’m assuming is ADHD as opposed to Ironwood’s very blatant negative portrayal).

Why wasn’t Yang’s lack of faith in Ruby better built up?- It feels like it came out of nowhere, and while I am glad that at least someone is questioning Ruby, and that I’m also kinda glad that it’s someone close to her so that Ruby does have to reflect on it, it… Kinda came up out of nowhere. This could’ve been something she discussed with Blake, but I guess that wasn’t important enough.

The writers don’t really think ahead on a lot of things. It feels like they only focus on the volume in front of them. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing if they also didn’t actively ignore what happened in prior volumes. Like I said: Yang wasn’t really that much of a hothead prior to Tai’s advice. If you want to take a singular instance of her being one as proof that that’s all she is, then I guess Obi-Wan is one too, since he sliced off somene’s arm in A New Hope, and that apparently, nobody wanted to mess with the guy wielding a lightsaber, so nobody tried to confront him outside of Imperial soldiers.

The writers don’t look back on the past, and they don’t look towards the future. They only see the present that’s in front of him. To be honest, it feels like they took the wrong message from Master Oogway’s famous “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift… That is why we call it ‘the present,’“ That quote isn’t to say that one should disregard the past and ignore the future. It means to realize what happened in the past is in the past and that you can learn from it, realize that you can’t control the future because it hasn’t happened yet, and that you can do your best right now to improve the future.

The biggest reason why the rwde tag dwells constantly on past moments is because the writers refuse to learn from them. The writers make the same mistakes, and it’s only when fan outcry is loud enough that they realize it’s a mistake. But they won’t take the time to understand why it was a mistake, they’ll only say “Oh hey, this was a mistake.”

Take Jaune’s screentime for example. Evidently, there was enough outcry about it that Miles no longer likes writing him anymore, but the writers themselves failed to realize why Jaune’s screentime was a mistake.

Jaune’s screentime and development came at the expense of other characters. Other characters that could have also developed alongside him if the writers were smart. Take the whole “Jaune cheated his way in” thing for example. Ruby only got in because of nepotism, if she had found out, then they could both bond and grow from the shared belief that they didn’t deserve to be there on their own merits. It would still be a problem that Jaune got to cheat his way in without repercussions but it would develop the first letter in the title, and Jaune at the same time (and again, my idea that his hero ancestors got him in via nepotism is still there. The writers still have time to retcon it by saying that the parents bribed Jaune’s way in, and that Jaune basically cheated his way in for nothing).

Or take Jaune unlocking his semblance as another example. Aside from fact that this moment is the scene that will forever taint Volume 5 in my eyes as the worst volume ever (Jaune charging Cinder and getting to unlock his semblance because Weiss got impaled because Jaune couldn’t control his revenge boner while Yang charging Adam ends with her being belittled and losing an arm because she wanted to save Blake), that scene could have gone way better. Instead of Weiss, have it be Ren, Nora, or Ruby. Ren had finished up an arc last volume, and given the precedent set by Pyrrha, once a member of team JNPR finishes an arc, they die, Ren being impaled would have put viewers on the edge of their seats. Weiss being impaled doesn’t do that, as she still has many more arcs to go through, and is a title character. Nora is hardly a character, and was certainly a viable target, especially since she was a hard counter to what Hazel was doing. Taking her out would have also made sense because then the main team loses one of their major advantages over the evil team. And finally, Ruby being impaled would have made sense from a character perspective. Considering that Cinder was all “I want revenge on Ruby” the whole volume and the one before it, her targeting Ruby would have made sense. In fact, the whole fight could have been Cinder being largely dismissive towards Jaune and treating him as more of an obstacle to her target for revenge than her just toying with him because she has to have sadist tendencies™.

The writers got that Jaune’s screentime and moments of character development were a problem, but they neglected to understand why it was a problem.

And instead of acknowledging this mistake, they instead decided to bury it, and not acknowledge it at all.

Acknowledging a mistake is better than pretending that the mistake didn’t happen in the first place.

The rabid defenders need to realize that this series isn’t perfect. There are flaws in it. Undoubtedly, if there was another series that had similar, or the same issues as RWBY did, those defenders would call it out, not realizing that the show they defend so fervently, has the same or similar ones.

And the haters need to realize that this show isn’t as flawed as it is. A similar situation as the above would probably take place. Another series has similar, or the same good moments as RWBY does, and they’d probably praise it, despite those same moments being in the show that they hate so much.

So what does this mean for this blog?

It means that this blog isn’t going to be dedicated to simply hating on the show, or blindly praising it. When credit is due, it will be given. When criticism is due, it will be given. This blog is still being run by one guy, and it’s probably going to stay that way.

Nobody’s perfect, not me. Not you. Not the writers.

And similarly, nobody is the physical incarnation of failure. Not me. Not you. Not the writers.

No matter how it feels, we’re all still human. And we all deserve to grow as critics, as writers, as artists, as friends, as family members, as community members, and as people.

Even if it feels like the crew have been given every opportunity to grow as writers, they still deserve all the other opportunities.

Would it be nice if they acknowledged their past fuck-ups and apologized for them?- Yes of course.

Would it be nice to actually see growth from them rather than them just trying to claim that they did?- Duh.

But we’re all human beings.

And in all honesty, I’m tired of hating on the things I can’t control. Hate is one part off of the path to the Dark Side.

Maybe I should do a Star Wars post soon, what with how I referenced it so often here… Who knows?- Maybe this can be more than just a RWBY criticism blog.

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Once again it’s time to talk about something that annoys me. And by something, I mean Gyro Gearloose and maybe explaining my full thoughts on why I dislike him as much as I do. 

This post is all over the place and I can already hear Gyro fans trying to convince me otherwise, but this is just how I feel and after spending a month or two TRYING to get my feelings in order about him, I don’t think anything’s going to change my mind until we see more episodes.

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Let’s just say that first things first, I went into DT17 fully prepared to hate Mark Beaks. I knew about how awful he was from the get-go, I had heard that he was just such an asshole. How a lot of folks in the fandom were happy to drag his ass for being a racist prick to Fenton.

And I did hate him. A lot. And he is a racist prick. There’s no arguments there.

So I was so distracted by Mark and how obnoxious he was, that Gyro as a whole kind of got swept under the rug. I hadn’t heard much from the fandom about him (or at least, I paid little attention), other than the occasional ‘Yeah I like him’, so I didn’t form much of an opinion.

But after Astro Boyd sparked a burning hatred inside me for the man, despite him earning at least one (only one) right by the end, I was like “Maybe I’m being unfair. I mean, a lot of people seem to like him, so maybe I should rewatch the show to see if I’m missing something. Maybe he really is just kind of misunderstood. I mean, yes, he was clearly wrong in this episode but he did learn his lesson. Maybe I am missing what makes this character fun.”

So I rewatched Ducktales to give Gyro another chance. Admittedly I did go into it kind of sour at him to begin with but I tried to keep an open mind.

And...he’s terrible.

He was always terrible.

Not just in personality but he is so AWFUL to Fenton, to the point where I’m surprised by people not pointing out how absolutely dehumanizing he is to Fenton at times. Like wow, he might not be as outright as Mark is, but he is just AWFUL to Fenton. I’m less surprised by his behavior in AstroBoyd after my rewatch because that’s how he ALWAYS was to people he saw as lesser than him.

Now, I understand liking awful characters. As I’ve stated hundreds of times, I would be a HYPOCRITE to judge. I love the Director from RvB, I love Felix from RvB, I love Daniel Camp Camp. Heck, in an odd way, I kind of enjoy seeing Mark Beaks on screen (at least when he’s nowhere near Fenton) because while he is a terrible person, at least there’s some entertainment to be had from his obnoxious-whiny-rich-white-boy personality.

But like....why does Mark get dragged for treating Fenton like shit, and I SEE people dragging him, but I didn’t see as much of that with Gyro.

All the posts I’ve seen are like “Oh I love Gyro” “Oh I love his development” “Oh he’s such a good character” and....again, no judgement there. I don’t think his character in itself is bad and I recognize growth that some people might connect with.

But it’s just baffling. To see so many people after AstroBoyd completely ignore what a horrible person he was and even go so far as to think he’s even CLOSE to being a good parent for Boyd after one hug (I had to outright block ‘Boyd G*arloose’ as a tag because every time I see that man being all happy-cutesy Dad Mode with my favorite character in the show, my stomach twists so painfully), when he still has two-and-a-half seasons of horrible behavior still under his belt, while happily dragging Mark for his shit behavior.

Now do I think Gyro is as bad as Mark? Absolutely not. Unlike Mark, he at least has the potential to recognize when he is wrong. He can recognize that he has, in fact, been a VERY toxic person to a lot of people in his life. In fact, that’s one thing I do like about his character.

However, him recognizing this fact now does not excuse the damage he’s already done, nor does it make me any less sour that it took two-and-a-half seasons of him treating Fenton like garbage, 3/4s of an episode dehumanizing a little neurodivergent robot child (yeah reminder that Boyd is a CHILD and Gyro is a GROWN ADULT, that’s even more infuriating) and nearly SHUTTING HIM DOWN WITH NO REMORSE. YEAH, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WOULD’VE HAPPENED IF HUEY HADN’T BEEN THERE??? Boyd would probably be DEAD if Huey hadn’t been like “Hey, Gyro, maybe look closer at these memories?”.

He is on the right track. But he has only taken a step in the right direction, and I’m not about to praise him for taking that step after he spent a mile stepping on others. If you want to, that’s awesome and I hope you have fun. But I need more steps from him before the sour feelings about him dissipate.

And don’t even talk to me about how ‘people handle trauma in different ways’ regarding his behavior in AstroBoyd. Like excuse me, trauma or not, you don’t treat people like that and you don’t treat CHILDREN, especially not NEURODIVERGENT CHILDREN like that. He’s well within his rights to be scared of Boyd after what happened, but the absolutely MALICE in his tone and behavior towards him was inexcusable.

[illumynare]

RvB 15.15 thoughts

THAT WAS SO AMAZING I LOVED IT SO MUCH.

I got....slightly spoiled for the Locus reveal from watching the panel, but it didn’t matter. I still nearly shrieked when Locus appeared, and it look me like 30 minutes to watch the episode. I kept having to pause it because I was having 40,000 feelings per second.

Disclaimer, okay: Grif is great. Grif is amazing and heartbreaking and HE JUST MISSES HIS FRIENDS and also I saw @a-taller-tale​‘s suggestion that he’s done the voices and the volleyballs before, after his entire base was massacred, and now my heart is in a million weeping pieces.

....buuuuuut I’m just going to be talking about Locus right now because he is my trash son and I’M SO EXCITED.

I know that Locus’s arc, particularly in S13, was a topic of some dispute in the fandom. Personally, I liked it. I thought it was actually pretty will set up, and I will always love any arc where a character realizes they are garbage and they need to change. 

I’ve seen a bunch of people say they thought Locus was pulling a Karma Houdini at the end, that he was getting a redemption cookie and a pat on the head when he wasn’t even willing to stay on Chorus and face consequences for what he’d done. I didn’t feel that way. I absolutely agree that Locus was WRONG when he ran off to “make things right.” When you’ve murdered a metric ton of people and attempted full-on genocide, you don’t get to nope out of prison because you want a more comfortable punishment. But I didn’t see that scene as endorsing Locus’s choices, and I didn’t see it as the conclusion of his arc, either. At that point, Locus has been on Team Genocide Is Bad And I Should Own My Choices for about five minutes. It’s not surprising that he hasn’t fully worked out all the implications of what that should mean. 

So I liked where S13 left him. I also... kind of didn’t want him to come back. Because while I am officially redemption arc trash, I acknowledge that redemption arcs are very tricky to write, and I was worried that if they brought him back, he wouldn’t have grown in a way that was satisfactory, or they’d handwave consequences and expect us to be fine with it, or some such.

AND THEN THIS MAGNIFICENT EPISODE HAPPENED.

okay, so, it remains to be seen how they deal with the long-term consequences of Locus’s crimes. They may still mess it up. BUT what thrilled me and gave me so much confidence was Locus saying that he was doing this “because it’s the right thing.”

Not: “to atone.” Not: “because I want to be a good person.” I think that’s really important, because as much as I support Locus becoming a better person, he is not the most important part of this situation. So I’m glad that he realizes that. And his entire fall came about in the first place because he couldn’t accept that he had done something evil when he shot the captive alien--he preferred believing he wasn’t a person over believing he was a person who had done something bad.

Also, I loved this epsiode because “villain tries to Do The Right Thing, is prepared for noble suffering, is driven up the wall with irritation instead” is just 210% my aesthetic. Redeem all the bad guys, but let none of them keep their dignity, that’s my motto.

A l s o, as hilarious as Grif babbling nonstop at Locus was, I also have So Many Feelings about the two of them together—these two characters who both (for very different reasons) turned away from their best friends and have been totally alone since. Grif, who was so alone he made himself “friends” that weren’t really people, and Locus, who tried to make himself not a person, and now is trying to stumble in the opposite direction. AND NOW THEY’RE TAKING A ROAD TRIP TOGETHER, and Grif is babbling his way across aaaaaall of Locus’s emotional buttons and traumas, and I just. I cannot even. Please let them become friends.

JUST LET MY GARBAGE SON LEARN TO BE A PERSON AGAIN.

[arirashkae]

RvB for the ask meme?

the first character i ever fell in love with:

I was fortunate enough to actually watch the first 5 seasons more-or-less live (until I moved & had too many responsibilities to keep up), so I adored them all from the start, but the very first character I fell in love with was Caboose

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not:

I, ... uh, hmmmm.

I don’t think I have one XD

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not:

I actually didn’t ship people that much in the beginning, at least not actively, so there’s nothing to abandon. Now, I’d say it’s not that I dislike the popular ships (on the contrary, I love them!) but my contrary little heart wants to run randomizers to see what rarepairs/polys I get and how to make them work

my ultimate favorite character™:

Caboose is, and forever will be, the darling of my heart, even if don’t write him as much as I want to

prettiest character:

Oooo, that’s a tough call! I’d say Kai & Donut probably take the best care of themselves, and they project that self confidence that can make a supposedly “plain” face gorgeous.

I also think under the helmet Katie Jensen is absolutely adorable, but she’s so self-conscious she doesn’t think so

my most hated character:

M A L C O L M   H A R G R O V E.

my OTP:

Meaning, which ship before all ships? Honestly, if you can write it enough to make me care, I can ship damned near anything

I’m flexible ^_~

my NOTP:

Incestuous stuff (as in, each other. a poly ship involving, say, the Dakotas each dating the same person doesn’t bother me, as long as they’re not screwing each other), and the Director/Tex skeeves me on so many levels.

(Wash/Carolina romantically/sexually post-Epsilon bothers me because of the memory dump)

favorite episode:

It’s a toss up between 3 of Season 14 (and no, as much as I love the garbage boys, it’s not anything with the mercs):

Why They’re Here: because it took what was an angsty headcanon and made it canon D:

Caboose’s Guide to Making Friends: cute, funny, sad, and one of those things that just works its way into your soul when you’re not looking

Immersion: Warthog Flip: if you close your eyes it really does sound like Church is fucking with Miles XD  (In Miles’ defense, the armor is powered, is it not? So it shouldn’t have been just his own muscle making the attempt)

saddest death:

Well, keep in mind I saw it more-or-less live, and stopped after season 5 until after 13 was up on Netflix

So when the ship blew with Tex, Junior, and Sheila (fuck Andy), I was seriously upset for days (the fact that my son was closing in on 2 might have had something to do with it)

favorite season:

Another tough call. If I had to pick just one season to rewatch, it’d probably be 6, if only for Wash trying to deal with the BGC

least favorite season:

Hmmm, season I’m least likely to rewatch? Probably 14 as a whole, although there were individual episodes I really enjoyed

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate:

Can’t say I detest any fan favorites

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave:

Oh gods, the mercs. They are such pieces of shit but I can’t help enjoying every moment they’re on screen

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave:

Tex and Doyle, for sure (I will bring them both back somehow)

(and unless we find out he sells his soul too, Siris ^_~ )

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship:

pretty much anything with one or both mercs, at least when they’re in the actual merc stage. I will roll in that dumpster like it’s filled with catnip

(if they’re not genocidal assholes in the fic, I feel less guilty about enjoying them XD  )

   my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship’:

Docnut, Grimmons, & Sarge/Grey are kinda low-key. I love them, but they haven’t gotten their hooks into my soul, in that I don’t have the urge to write them. That may change ^_^