#they've spent enough time punishing the character and the audience for his popularity can we all just accept this now

[frumfrumfroo]

Yeah, same, I had a bunch of mutuals encouraging me to watch Loki and I just don't trust like that anymore lol. A few of my fandoms are finally getting sequels after some time and I'm just like... dreading it? And not looking forward to it? It's really sad since I've been in fandom for over half my life.

I must ask, have you seen Dark? Because its romance is held up by cosmic loftiness impossible-in-any-other-circumstance and only through extreme means, and the redemption in the story makes me tear up just trying to convey the tone, and its ending makes me ugly cry. That sounds kind of up your alley, and it's sort of my only light in the dark. Puns.

I do find it funny that a show like Dark - a not inappropriate name - manages to celebrate redemption in a higher cosmic way than Star Wars ended up doing. The same jokes were made about True Detective's first season when TROS aired, though TD doesn't have the romance.

I did not know TD had redemption! I saw the memes about the show and saw people hype for it, but I never knew this. I am far more interested in maybe watching it eventually now lol.

I hadn't heard about Dark at all, but I will put it on my list to check out. Thank-you, nonnie!

Same. I honestly have always been wary of sequels or continuations to stand alone properties or long-concluded series, but it's become more and more the news you fucking dread hearing, just as you say.

I wasn't interested when the first rumours of the series were going around years before it materialised, and I knew then I wasn't going near it with a ten foot pole. People said I was 'wrong' during the first season, but a) I wouldn't have been wrong about my personal reasons for not wanting to watch it even if it had been great as its own independent thing and b) lol when has not trusting the M- 'continuity? what continuity?'-CU ever been wrong?