You can say anything is well written by adding a layer to it that’s not there. The show absolutely does treat Stolas as a perfect being and the mercs let some douche get away with cheating because he’s happy and gay and that makes it ok.
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Yeah I don’t have to have empathy for fictional characters to analyze them. Especially when they are Wagner Group-style mercenary terror killer bombers, who have not much empathy either.
Same reason I didn’t care when Yevgeny Prigozhin was coming from when he was whining about apathy and lack of support for his forces. *You run a murderous mercenary organization!* i could not care less about their hopes and dreams.
Lmao, no the show absolutely does not treat Stolas as perfectly.
IMP let that family go because the lady that hired them was very obviously an abusive woman who wanted to see the husband who rightfully left her punished
I mean, I think he was right to cheat on Stella not because he's gay but because she's abusive. I think it's fine to cheat on domestic abusers. That's a good message, I think. And no, the show still goes out of its way to show that Stolas isn't perfect, like with Octavia and his tendency to withdraw
What? Cheating is in no way as severe as rape. It's having sex with another person other than your partner without their consent. They were in an arranged marriage and never loved each other. Stella wasn't even mad that he cheated, it's that Stolas cheated on her with an imp.
into his own problems at the expense of seeing how other people are feeling. He's often really fucking oblivious, and part of that is related to his unconscious classism, like during his speech in the Harvest Moon Festival.
Right to feel what way? Are you talking about the fight they had in Full Moon? Stolas had already learned that their deal wasn't the big romantic delusional version of their relationship he had in his mind and was actively trying to end it in a way where Blitzo wasn't dependent on being with him.
Blitzo mentioned in Full Moon that Stolas ever since Ozzie's had been letting him avoid their sexual encounters and was basically just giving the grimoire to him for free. I'd say that's basically ceasing the fetishy stuff on his end, at least.
Like, that's just character growth. Blitzo was still right to not believe him, Stolas sprung this on him seemingly out of nowhere and it seemingly contradicted what their deal was based on, sexual services for the grimoire. They were both right to feel how they did.
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Which is what you're lacking right now when it comes to character analysis
IMP let that family go because the lady that hired them was very obviously an abusive woman who wanted to see the husband who rightfully left her punished
Lol no by violating someone’s consent that way that’s literally 1 step away from rape which is also violating consent.