Stolitz, Helluva Boss, and Genre, a thread 🧵 (finally getting around to crossposting this from the other site) #helluvaboss #stolitz #stolas #blitz - ThreadSky

implydone.bsky.social • 59 days ago

Stolitz, Helluva Boss, and Genre, a thread 🧵

(finally getting around to crossposting this from the other site)

#helluvaboss #stolitz #stolas #blitz

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flybystardancer.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yay you posted it over here!!!

This is such an amazing, insightful thread!

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

hehehe! yes, it just took me a minute to get to my laptop and copy it all over hehehe

flybystardancer.bsky.social•59 days ago

It is a long one! But I had never given that much depth of thought to the genre contrasts & mixing! Just surface thoughts, like Blitzø being more of an action hero than the romcom Stolas mentioned in AT. But gaaaah I love seeing a post just 🤯🤯🤯 like that!

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

hehehe well thank you!!

riflebird.bsky.social•59 days ago

oh god this is such a good thread, very well put!!!

megamegaturtle.bsky.social•59 days ago

This was such a wonderful analysis and just helped me understand their characterizations so much better 🌟❤️🌟

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

a common critique or observation about Helluva Boss is its tonal dissonance, the way that the episodes shift from drama to comedy, tragedy to slapstick, etc. many fans of the show understand that this is a feature of the narrative, a purposeful thing.

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

i also think it ties back to the way the show, and primarily Stolitz, are tied to different genres and genre conventions. Blitz lives in an action comedy, with all the slapstick physical comedy, raunchy humor, and nonsensical gags befitting that genre.

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

Stolas, on the other hand, lives in tragic melodrama. High emotions, high contrast, loneliness, isolation, crying, love and yearning. Physical comedy doesn't really exist here, and any physicality is weighted seriously as befits the genre.

inu003.bsky.social•59 days ago

This is SO well put! It’s always sad when people criticize the show but don’t seem to understand genres, themes and tropes. You explained beautifully how different genres in Helluva get mixed and overlap thanks to the characters themes ❤️

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

which also explains why most of the physical comedy and gags, whether they land for the watcher or not, are in the I.M.P. world - most often depicted on blitz and moxxie, sometimes millie (murder family with the bottle smash/chicken noise lol)

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

and those genres also affect how character information is given to us - for blitz, background comes in the form of flashbacks that interrupt the action. Oops and Ghostfuckers. for Stolas, they come in the form of solitary songs, often sung in a tragic, minor key.

inu003.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yeees! 👏 All of this really does affect how information is conveyed and highlights how miscommunication comes to be because the characters live with such different perspectives

implydone.bsky.social•59 days ago

the cool thing about the two main characters, who are also the main couple, living in different genres is that it also fits for the different worlds they've lived in. it makes a lot of sense for a prince to be in a melodrama and a ragtag business team to be in action comedy

sonomilotuseater.bsky.social•59 days ago

👏👏👏👏👏

colsart.bsky.social•57 days ago

Great analysis!

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