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solasfenheral · 1 day ago

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ngl. I do think pointing to disliking solas as this massive lynchpin to weaknesses (imo) in John Epler’s writing is kind of silly.

like I think we can gesture far more convincingly to like the way Bellara’s intro writing specifically keeps undercutting dramatic tension without it really contributing to our understanding why the character Does That. Let alone if that writing choice is even appropriate when we are still trying to establish the stakes to our plot?

#I do naurrrrrt care what John Epler thinks of solas and I don’t really understand why everyone else does #oh so his solas takes feel kind of reductive? awesome I have three tumblr mutual in laws who I think the exact same of/j #who cares man. the point To Me is that even in that cut anaris writing you see like #what I would call misplaced tension relief #like all of the fourth wall breaking in that excerpt aside (because it doesn’t feature outside of cut content anyways)#by USING fourth wall breaks youre undercutting tension in one our companion’s main antagonists #if you remind us he knows he’s a character and what characters DO with both a lack of finesse and no clear goal about what that SAYS about #this dude then you are undercutting the tension building him Up as a threat #and the butt of the joke is just. the audience??? for caring????#it’s jarring and doesn’t actually help strongly establish the relationship between solas and anaris #and why they’re ideologically divided #and you CAN take the piss out of another character doing this #genuinely the sera/solas banters demonstrate this #you can have characters dislike one another and think they’re weird/strange/shortsighted etc etc #but you have to TELL us about them while doing so #by making this about THEM what it says about THEM and what they believe and judge and critique in others #and if that assessment is accurate etc etc #tunes talks critical #veilguard critical #<- kinda #and scenes like bellara going man that was weird we fought an ogre. just another Tuesday! aren’t TELLING us anything about how this #character handles stress or conflict etc because it’s not??? consistent imo???#there’s no clear follow through on why bellara acts this way here but won’t do so elsewhere imo

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