I know we all love to compare Lena to Elias being the “obviously sinister boss” of the group, and truthfully it is the easiest comparison to make, but for one these ARE new characters. In Sam you can see bits of s2 John, early seasons Martin, Sasha in all her bad horror movie protagonist glory, but he’s ultimately a new character distinct from anyone in archives and I wouldn’t want him to be anything else,
but also in many ways Lena is the anti-Elias.
You’ve got Elias playing the long game, keeping all his cards close to his chest until the time is right. Scheming from the shadows for hundreds of years, keeping everyone in the archives under his thumb and leading them all towards their inevitable fate through his manipulation, and he SUCCEEDED.
Then on the other hand you’ve got Lena who in the first ten episodes has
-spent her first appearance getting openly undermined by all her employees in front of the new guy
-immediety loses control of the situation and has to cave and let them leave the work party with a weak-well at least don’t stay out too late k? 😢
-tries to win over her employees with day old, store bought sweets. It is implied this is a frequent occurrence
-failed to shoot the guy her employers put a hit out on while they were both in the same room
-gets successfully black-mailed by one of her employees
Basically all this to say this bitch is getting brutally pipe murdered before the end of the series.
She can’t even get her employees to respect her. You really think she’s getting used as a successful conduit for a cosmic fear entity?