#so astrid putting herself in danger to save her daughter wouldve been a nice contrast idk

[droidmom]

watched equinox on netflix and hmmm. it wasn't bad! i actually really liked a lot of it! but there were a few problems i had with it.

for starters it didn't feel like an exciting mystery to unravel once you got to a certain point? it became a lil too straightforward. some things also felt a bit too planted, which isn't a bad thing bc i get it's a mystery with lots of parts, but does make it feel less immersive.

then there were a lot of elements that could've used more attention like astrid's daugher - i like that astrid sacrificed herself willingly, but i think it would have been more impactful to either show she's doing this despite how she has to sacrifice her bond with her daughter OR doing it to protect her daughter. like the hare god takes prisoners when he doesn't get what he wants, so what if vera was at risk! idk if she could be the next ostara or anything but that's also a possibility - like why does astrid have a daughter and not a son if not to leave that open?

astrid's progression to being a willing sacrifice needed to be done better but it wasn't out of nowhere i guess? see above paragraph for more ideas but if they weren't going to utilize astrid, they could've solidified more of "ostara"'s innate attraction to the hare god. i didn't realize how important that possibly is until reading a review about the show.

i want more exploration of the cave/island/whatever astrid sees where the people are trapped. that's so cool! i got into this show because the promise of other dimensions and stuff and highkey thought it would be a thing where like, ida was still alive but had become feral on an island in another dimension with her other classmates jka;lksdjf. i'm a lil disappointed that wasn't the case, but since that was my own false idea i still want more of how it interacts with the conscious world.

tHEN of course there's the uncomfortableness of henrik's whole thing. poor ida!! but i will say something told me, while they were fUCKING, that maybe that was henrik. i was literally waiting for some tattoo on his arm to get focus as a way to be like "look! dramatic irony! astrid noticed this when she visited him so now you the viewer will get this insight too!" so whatever they did to hint at it being him WORKED on a subconscious level jkl;askljdf.

why weren't the ritual people at the island again when astrid went there? why only ida?

ANOTHER THING i was kind of expecting maybe for some reason the "you and ida aren't sisters" thing to pan out to be that .... fuck idk, time travel weirdness happened with the dimensions and it turns out astrid was ida's daughter, because then there's still the blood element and then it would give my ideas about vera more weight jal;sdkdljf. i guess this works too but what classifies someone as a daughter of the equinox???? obviously being boRN ON THE EQUINOX but where do these kids come from! did henrik just rob a hospital a couple times and give lene the kids to raise for him? how does that WORK.

ig i'm questioning more than critiquing at this point but ALSO how much did dennis know? i feel for him, he really tried, but i wonder if it was a situation where he knew what was going on and was vehemently against it (or maybe was into it from the beginning and then grew to love his girls and was like fuck this) OR did lene just show up with a baby every so often and dennis was like yeah sure let's go with it jkl;sdklfj.

anyway it's a decent show and i don't regret watching it, it's just easier to talk abt the faults than anything else usually.

last complaint is i really liked that oOOoooooSTAArA song and i want a full version right now asap please

OH AND AMELIA WAS IN LESBIAN LOVE WITH IDA YOU CAN'T CHANGE MY MIND (but seriously the way ida's friends abandoned her but then were nice to her on graduation was a bit odd.......... probs the alcohol.)