Not sure if you've seen the finale of the show yet because I'd love to hear your thoughts on how absolutely useless Charlie was once again
I’ve pretty much all the eps for season 1 so you don’t have worry about the spoilers.
As for the ep, I’mma just immediately rip the bandaid off and say that I had to watch it again to remember what happened, yet my brain is still kinda processing it again so I’mma type this to the best of my ability and if I do miss some parts I do apologize.
To start off with one of the things I didn’t like that included Charlie (mostly a personal nitpick) was her “battle fit” (if you could even call it that)
I feel like it should be self explanatory but I’ll explain anyway; for one, the fact that Charlie wearing what I like to call “the evil star butterfly cosplay” just doesn’t make sense to me. Like even though I don’t like Vicky’s fit either, at least she’s wearing something that could cover her skin to lessen the risk of cuts and injuries.
Charlie however is not only wearing a dress but also HIGH HEELS, which realistically would prob have her dead from the spot because for one, you can’t run in heels and two, like I said before she’s at higher risk to be injured compared to Vicky.
Like I’m honestly shocked that she only got a few rips from her clothing and a few bruises, like I get she’s the princess of hell but damage is still damage.
Not only that since Charlie is a princess then, wouldn’t she have access to wear royal armor??? Assuming she did (because there’s gotta be a reason to where she got that shield from), why didn’t she just wear that???? I feel like it would’ve been the most logical thing to wear since after all, YOUR GOING TO WAR AGAINST DEMONS.
Also speaking of the shield, why does she only have a shield and nothing else? You would think that since she’s the princess of hell she’d have some sort of weaponry but no.
She just guards herself a shield while occasionally throwing up magical fireworks like if that’s gonna do anything. Like, I get all niffty did most of the time was stab already dead angels before she killed adam, but at least she actually tried to do some damage compared to Charlie.
And then Razzle and Dazzle.
Listen, I can understand her not being able to save sir pentious because she was trying to protect Vicky and a lot of stuff was going on but why did she summon them? Isn’t she the daughter of lucifer? Wouldn’t she have transforming powers or something to get up there
I mean we’re shown in this gif that he can transform into different animals as he so pleases and can EVEN GROW WINGS.
Wouldn’t Charlie technically have those abilities? And even if she doesn’t have those abilities, these fuckers have guns and cannons with them that could shoot/blast Adam down.
Also gotta love the fact Charlie just stays on the roof of the hotel and watches the Lucifer and Adam fight happen UNTIL ADAM RAY BEAMS THE HOTEL IN HALF, ONLY FOR HER TO BE SAVED BY LUCIFER was so dumb. Women do SOMETHING WHY WERE YOU JUST STANDING THERE????
then like the ending. Omg the ending…
“Omg guys I lost sir p and the hotel guys, I failed” PENDEJA. YOU DID JUST DICK ALL DURING THAT WAR OTHER THAN WAVE SOME SHIELD AROUND WITH SOME FIREWORKS. CRY HARDER. BOO HOO I GUESS.
And I just gotta say, I doesn’t entirely include Charlie but like these parts of the lyrics
What???? Tf you mean redemption may take a while???? We’re still going with that??? After the war against heaven you guys just had??? Did Charlie forget what happened in episode 6, where like there was some shit about heaven being a lie and this evil place???? Why are you guys still trying to redeem sinners when YOU Charlie, realized heaven is evil???
But don’t worry, they rebuild the hotel guys! They can live happy ever after right?
Even though like… let me check my notes…. Oh right! Angel is still stuck with valentino, husk’s soul is still taken away by alastor! Oh yeah, I guess viv forgot about that part I guess.
I know I’ve already said this to friends of mine but ngl this episode especially just reminded of this one page from sonichu where Chris and his chars execute a guy in an electric chair but make it viv’s characters and Adam/heaven.
But uh, yeah. I don’t like Charlie, I don’t like this episode, I don’t like this series. I don’t know anymore.
I have such a massive problem with woman in fantasy being dressed in such impractical outfits for the pure sake of looking cool. genshin inpact has this problem too. The outfit dont have anything to the characters, nothing to tell a story or help in battle, it's just meant to be a pretty outfit. i have nothing against stylisation, stylisation is absolutely amazing and gives so much character, but "looking cool" just for the sake of looking cool isn't a good enough reason for this character to have absolutely no bodily protection during a WAR.
Hazbin was not good, the only character that didn't fall flat in every possible way was Angle. and even then we got absolutely no closure for his situation. Obviously u can't expect a whole show to be done in six episodes, but it's one season and the resolution wasn't even a resolution
We have so many more questions and absolutely no answers.
can we also talk about how trash the pacing was?? at any given point i had no idea how urgent the situation was, it suddenly jumped to one month being left and there where no signs anything had changed for the characters or world. It feels like first four episodes happen in a week, time jump to one month, time jump to a week, time jump to the day of. honestly the ending of the season would have been so much better as the series end in concept. give us Husk gambling for Angle's soul, it would feel so much more balanced and given us a realistic resolution.
Give me redeemable villains or give me death. All of the heaven-bros are fascists with no redeemable qualities. we get one, who is clearly meant to be the one we root for of the sara's, but her mom-thing is literally justifying racism so hard it's impossible to feel empathy for her.
the pilot is still CARRYING the plot and community even though it's not cannon and only 30 minutes
this series is kinda irredemable and i'm so sad about it
Dude the pacing was the worse part of the series, the series doesn’t let us actually breathe and let us process what’s happening in each episode without actually having to pause it.
And bc didn’t know the pacing was gonna be that ass, I felt like I probably had the biggest whiplash I had watching a series. And that never really happens a lot.
And also yeah I can honestly agree that the series gave us a lot more to be desired, and even when they do try give us something about the characters and the world building it just doesn’t make sense or just feels overall outta place.
And the fact that vivziepop claimed this show was supposed to be a “critique on Christianity” and yet the series just portrays heaven to be obviously evil with no subtlety JUST so they can have us sympathize with the demons even though almost all of them are just fine being in hell and just doubling down on what they did on earth is just… stupid imo.
I feel like it should really say something if people prefer THE PILOT more than your ACTUAL SHOW, was the pilot perfect? No, but it was definitely better than what we got for sure.
Honestly I can understand you finding the series to be irredeemable, bc honestly I do too. Even though I’m someone who wants to rewrite everything about this trash fire of a series.
It’s honestly sad that a series had such potential to be so good but yet what we got was this coupled with a creator that can’t take the slightest of criticism, it really is.