My One Idea With Cassie Was Instead Of Just Randomly Making Her A Threat To Michael And Taylor's Relationship

My one idea with Cassie was instead of just randomly making her a threat to Michael and Taylor's relationship for cheap love triangle points just leaning into the slightly playful nature she has (see, her explanation of her powers in her intro where it's clear she's having a bit of fun explaining that she's got a nonlethal and lethal setting between the muscle paralysis and stopping lungs/hearts) and just make her, like, an attempted homewrecker because she thinks it's funny to flirt with people to get a rise out of them. Make her flirt with Ostin or Jack to get rises out of McKenna and Abi, too. Heck, make her bi and have her flip from flirting with Michael to Taylor when she protests just to throw them off. I thought it might be fun.

Oh my god yes! That would be so funny! She had so much potential and I hate that she was reduced to a love triangle.

⚠️Spoilers for the Be More Chill book!⚠️

so no one talks about this so I will.

it is canon that the entire Be More Chill book is a apology letter to Christine. Because in the book the SQUIP messed up and makes Jeremy do something stupid and ruins the play. And after the SQUIP suggests that Jeremy tell her the truth and Jeremy says that it would take a book to tell all of that and the SQUIP says “well I’ll write it for you.” And Jeremys like “how would you do that?” And the SQUIP goes “ I’ll have to take control of your body.” (This is the first time it’s mentioned he can do that) and Jeremy’s a bit reluctant but he agrees and then the SQUIP says he will shut itself down after writing the book and that’s how the book ends. And this ending explains a lot of strange stuff. There’s some meta humor in the beginning that feels out of place wear the SQUIP says Jeremy should curse to make him sound cool and then Jeremy does that but later he says “I don’t want Christine to read me cursing so much” and the SQUIPs like “good point” and the rest of the curses in the book are blanked out but they are regularly used.

Some exceptionally lazy gregor expressions (ranging from neutral to ‘my sisters! My sisters are in there!!’)

(Following up on the last one) You legit make a good point.

Now that I think about it I think my approach might end up being similar. I'd keep the "Tara makes Hatch look like Carl" scene because Tara's illusion ability is important enough to establish and use for the Quentin mutiny later but I would probably make Carl a spy-entist (ba-dum-tish) inside the Elgen under a new fake name-probably make his fake identity a reoccurring character running tests on Quentin et al. possibly even have him set up/assist the mutiny alongside that one guy Quentin rescues that I can't recall the name of. And then bump Coonradt up to the Resistance's leader.

That also touched on a brief Idea I had of playing up Hatch's twin tools of manipulation being luxury and guilt. You have Zeus and his pool memory, you have Tanner and the airplane stuff, Nichelle and the electrical fires in her foster homes, I was thinking of making it a more prevalent thing that Hatch tries to get under Michael's skin by implying that he killed Carl with his powers as a kid. Honestly was also considering something similar with Quentin's EMP power-grandparent with a pacemaker of some sort?

Yes! That would make so much sense! I didn’t even think of the fact that hatch uses a traumatic thing form the kids past as a control tactic. And hatch definitely could have utilized that with Michael.

Also, do you remember that thing where Hatch tried to trick Michael by telling him that most of the kids that died from the experiment died from cancer and that since Michael’s electricity was growing he could be at risk? Because I think about that a lot. And I honestly feel like that didn’t go anywhere. Hatch gave Michael a bunch of reasons to doubt the resistance and his friends, and it would have been interesting to see him start to doubt everyone. Become mistrusting because who should he believe. Sure, the Elgan did horrible things and the resistance is fighting against them, but they are sending them on death missions. Using them as basically child soldiers.

You know how sometimes books, movies, TV shows etc. are named after the main character? How do fandoms differentiate from posts about that specific character and posts within that fandom using it as a way to tag the fandom as a whole? Do you just have to wade through other things to find fanart and stuff for that character specifically? It seems so inconvenient.

Tired of how much people mischaracterize Michael by making him the most depressed, self hating mf ever. Have you...not paid attention to the show? Michael in the bathroom hits so hard because that's. Not like him. It's not a common occurrence. That's why it has such an impact!! It's so out of character for Michael, the goofy, fun, supportive, dorky best friend, Michael who has so much confidence that he doesn't even care about "embarrassing" himself by doing stuff like dancing and Vibing to music in the halls, or wearing a literal pride patch and making himself a target for homophobia, Michael who literally giggles at the "Boyf Riends" bullying attempt by Rich, to have such a downer moment, to literally have a panic attack in a bathroom, to self loathe and speak badly about himself, to overthink everything, to BLAME HIMSELF for someone else's actions, that's NOT the Michael we're shown for the rest of the show!! His character is much more deep and impactful once you learn to notice/accept that!!