"(Although Vox Is Hot, And Episode 4 Was Great)"

"(Although Vox is hot, and episode 4 was great)"

You and me both there, pal.

The fuck is Charlie doing and is it interesting?

I don't mean this in a bad faith analysis type of way. I do tend to be very critical of media, tearing apart writing flaws is something of a hobby, and I will admit I haven't loved the first three episodes (Although Vox is hot, and episode 4 was great). HOWEVER, I'm genuinely curious about what the fuck Charlie plans to do with the hotel, because we saw her idea get shot down by heaven in EPISODE ONE.

I was honestly surprised to see stuff about Heaven so early, and I was especially surprised to see Charlie's idea get directly shot down by an angel so soon because it makes me question Charlie's behavior. If you don't understand my surprise or confusion, let me explain. Typically the story structure in a cartoon like this would be that the start of the show is building up the hotel, and getting someone to a point where redemption seems actually reasonable for them, and THEN they go to heaven and get shot down, potentially sending characters spiraling towards relapse in their good behavior and bringing up new challenges. This sets up the one at fault to be HEAVEN, which would eventually unite the group and bring them together again to figure out redemption for real. But that's not what's happened so far.

With Charlie getting shot down so early, and getting shot down alone, it sets up something that could potentially become very interesting if it's handled correctly, because at this point Charlie is keeping secrets from the group (aside from Vaggie). From what we've seen on the show, nobody else knows she brought her ideas directly to an angel, she pulled Vaggie aside to tell her this. Now, imagine the scenario I described previously again. They build up the hotel and get someone to a point where redemption seems reasonable, go to heaven and get shot down. But this time the interaction ends with the angels telling the group that they ALREADY told Charlie that it'd be impossible. Now in this scenario, despite the fact that heaven is still at fault, the group now also has a reason to be upset with Charlie, the one who brought the whole thing together. This could lead into a WAY MORE FUN path to coming back together and building the idea of redemption up for real, with everyone eventually believing the same way that Charlie does with actual character work necessary for the group to get there. And I really hope this is the direction that the show goes.

However, I'm nothing if not a critic, and I was let down very heavily by Helluva Boss, so I'm not impressed by Vivzie's writing. This could also get brushed off. This might've just been a rushed way to set up the extermination coming sooner and heaven being bad and dangerous. This ISN'T a hate post, I enjoyed episode 4, and I'm sure future episodes will be good too, but Vivzie's work has a bad habit of never giving interesting conflict to the female characters and never exploring them in favor of giving us more backstory for the male leads. I really hope that Charlie gets an interesting conflict with the other characters, I don't care if it's not what I described in this post, I love being caught off guard by a show, I just really want something interesting with Charlie, she deserves better than to be brushed aside like the women of Helluva Boss.

I “love” how in the aftermath of the pilot we were led to believe that Valentino was controlling and abusive (the Addict MV basically proved this), even calculated, and yet in the first minute of him actually being on screen he’s actually portrayed as whiny, thoughtless and petulant, to the point where he has to have Vox (who, by the way, was stated by Vivzie herself to have had several of his screens smashed by him) tell him what to do and actually be the one to act dominant and suggestively abusive towards him, and then be subdued by Vox lighting his goddamn cigarette.

Who the fuck even is this character anymore?

Hopeless Revenge

I noticed something interesting in the latest chapter. When Snake is thinking about people reaching out to help him, he sees Doll and o!Ciel.

He seems to be comparing them. Interestingly, when Snake first confronted o!Ciel after the death of the circus troop, o!Ciel thought of Doll.

So Snake is making a comparison between Doll and o!Ciel and o!Ciel is seeing similarities in Snake and Doll.

Basically, I think this just shows there are similarities in all three (as well as similarities). One of the things all three had in common was the need revenge/vengeance. Doll ran at Sebastian and o!Ciel in anger. She was attacking in a lost cause to take revenge for the death of her 'family.' Snake tracked Ciel down in order to kill him to take a similar revenge.

It looks like neither Snake nor Doll will be successful. In fact, it seemed hopeless from the beginning.

So, what does say about oCiel's quest for revenge? It is just as hopeless and doomed for failure?

Bet ya'll suckers can't guess what my favorite Hazbin Hotel song is /j

Just wanted to state at least one of my personal gripes with Hazbin Hotel so far: the pacing seems to move at breakneck speed.

We're only on episode four and we're already getting into Angel Dust's issues, when it feels like it should've been brought up later on. Sir Pentious getting found out in his scheme and then redeemed was done in as little as two minutes.

It's like they're trying to cram in the entire story they want to tell (which would span for at least two or three seasons) into a single season with eight episodes before finding out "oh wait, we're getting a second season? uhhhh... okay then.."

Of course, I could be missing something (I myself know nothing about how this whole process works and what went on during the making of this show) but it just feels a bit off to me.