this is a really good example of how analyzing a narrative based entirely on whether something is good or bad for your baby boy makes you dumb as fuck. anyway what are your thoughts on melanie kin
i don’t understand your first point lowkey im sorry 🥀 like i get the concept but i don’t understand how this applies to me mb
and yeah i like melanie i think she’s cool.
doesn’t appeal to me like intimately or personally as a character but nothing wrong with her. her hate for john felt somewhat irrational but like characters are allowed to be irrational and it made sense for her personally especially with the obvious Slaughter influence. like it would be poor writing imo if she was acting rationally at that point.
i don’t remember her that much to be honest but i like that she was the only one with the gumption to actually gouge out her eyes to leave the institute idk why none of the others didn’t.
also her relationship with georgie also felt like weirdly sudden and out of the blue when i listened? I’ll go into more detail in another post on how the like style of storytelling really doesn’t help with that so it’s not really the fault of the characters but it still just felt kinda random to me.
aside from that though i really did like a lot of her character and im just glad to have some Slaughter rep because it is one of the more underrated fears it’s one of my faves (though her interpretation of it isn’t really as interesting or appealing to me compared to some of the other statements and just the potential it holds as a Fear).
i didn’t really like season 5’s ending and i didn’t really understand her and georgie just kinda randomly appearing with their little group? felt like padding out of content a bit or maybe a way to lull fans into more of a sense of security and let them have more like jmart time which just sort of didn’t appeal to me for obvious reasons.
also i understand obviously that like it’s very hard to represent blindness in an audio medium but i would’ve appreciated a little more mention of that by the end maybe? unless im forgetting about something in which case like yeah fair enough.
her character did just feel a bit like she went from angry to nonchalant without much range in between, which makes sense of course especially considering the supernatural reasons but idk i just feel like i would’ve connected with her more if there was like a bit more of a range there?
but ultimately i think she was a great character and i like her. also controversial opinion but i really don’t think she has blue hair and pronouns 🥀 sorry liberals