FINALLY! Someone Says It!

FINALLY! Someone says it!

Charlie is overcorrecting on sympathy precisely because SHE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO READ THE ROOM. You can see it throughout the show so often. The way she dismisses Vaggies very real concern about talking to the Angels was our first hint and it happens within the first ten minutes of the entire show.

That's what she ultimately needs high empathy people like Husk and Angel for. I don't know if empathy is a skill someone can learn realistically... Though...looking at Alastor... I think he has learned a fair few things from Rosie in that regard. And he is using that knowledge to his advantage.

Absolutely everyone at the Hotel is not only a has-been but they are all burning trashfires of emotional baggage. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM.

charlie's low empathy/high sympathy desperation to help people without ever really understanding WHY they feel the way they do + vaggie's complex about needing to be useful to the people she loves or else she's worthless = charlie completely mistaking vaggie's self-sacrifical behavior for an expression of love and not the trauma response that it is, because all she's grasping are the literal words out of vaggie's mouth and not the alarming nuances of terrified self-hatred lurking underneath

Alastor just about had the same reaction as I did when I saw the Pilot and watched Charlie have a fist fight with Katie Killjoy on live TV -> "Oh this is going to be a trash fire. I HAVE to get into that." 😂

charlie and vaggie (a hellborn princess and an angel) being possibly the LEAST qualified people to spearhead a redemption project for everyday human sinners continues to be the funniest part of the hotel's conception

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We know both of them are obsessive stalkers and Vox technically has more monitors around his control room and all the cameras are "Vox"-themed.

But I think there is something to be said about him needing an initial push to set it all in motion.

Valentino probably realised he could turn this into an advantage if he leveraged the info juuuussst right. And then his eternal failing of being a temperamental bitch got the better of him. Come to think of it, his obsession with Angel Dust led to Valentino knowing more things about the Hotel than Vox did. His whole speech about "going to that rancid shithole..." etc. was as much exposition for the audence as it was for Vox because it was pretty clear that Vox had no clue until Val told him.

That is such a spicy nugget of info. I love it!!

I Just Had a Thought About Something...

I see a lot of people commenting on Vox always stalking Alastor through the drones around the hotel and being a creepy voyeur, but something just occurred to me...

Vox didn't know Alastor was back until Valentino told him.

Literally up until this point, Vox has very little reason to want to spy on the hotel. But you know who does have a reason?

Valentino.

Who turns on the TV that instantly tune into the cameras pointed at the hotel?

Valentino.

Vox hasn't been watching the hotel at all. It's been Valentino. We know that Alastor has been back at this point for a week at minimum and that Angel Dust has been staying at the hotel for even longer than that. With how much of a control freak Vox is, there's no way Alastor's reappearance would have escaped him for a whole week if he was actually paying attention to those cameras. Meaning he didn't give a shit and if he didn't care, then why put them up at all? I think it's incredibly likely that Valentino asked Vox to put the cameras up around the hotel so he could watch Angel Dust. The bitch literally already had his TVs turned to the hotel feed. He's been watching Angel this entire time.

(Side note, that means Valentino could have known about Alastor for a solid week and purposefully did not tell Vox about it which is shady as Hell)

You are so right. I had not even thought about that but you are 100% correct.

Valentino also has cameras all over his private living space. Is it a kink? Maybe we are to understand that Valentino's depravities go even deeper than what we have been explicitly shown or been told about.

What a great observation!

I Just Had a Thought About Something...

I see a lot of people commenting on Vox always stalking Alastor through the drones around the hotel and being a creepy voyeur, but something just occurred to me...

Vox didn't know Alastor was back until Valentino told him.

Literally up until this point, Vox has very little reason to want to spy on the hotel. But you know who does have a reason?

Valentino.

Who turns on the TV that instantly tune into the cameras pointed at the hotel?

Valentino.

Vox hasn't been watching the hotel at all. It's been Valentino. We know that Alastor has been back at this point for a week at minimum and that Angel Dust has been staying at the hotel for even longer than that. With how much of a control freak Vox is, there's no way Alastor's reappearance would have escaped him for a whole week if he was actually paying attention to those cameras. Meaning he didn't give a shit and if he didn't care, then why put them up at all? I think it's incredibly likely that Valentino asked Vox to put the cameras up around the hotel so he could watch Angel Dust. The bitch literally already had his TVs turned to the hotel feed. He's been watching Angel this entire time.

(Side note, that means Valentino could have known about Alastor for a solid week and purposefully did not tell Vox about it which is shady as Hell)