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The Amazing Digital Survival Show (Characters, part 1)

So yeah, finally joining in on the AU game for The Amazing Digital Circus. I mean, I actually have been working on one for a while. Just wanted to make sure everything was ready before I revealed it. Then I thought of how I can join that burger thing that the creator of the Marvelous Mechanical Harlequin started despite not being an artist (I sure wish I had art, especially for my own AU)

Anyways, I thought of telling everyone about the character designs and a little of my AU - though that's gonna be another post - because at least writing is what I can do (I'm more of a writer at heart than an artist, which is why I don't have art). And to think, this is all for the sake of yet another post that I wanna do, in order to have it make more sense, ha ha... but one thing you should know about my intended AU right now is that I'm intending to use an island as an setting for it

Okay, first up...

Pomni - She wears an one piece swimsuit with one half being red and the other half blue. She's without her gloves but in their places are yellow bracelets with seashell charms and painted fingernails of red and blue. There's flipflops on her feet, again with one red and the other blue, but the straps to them are yellow. The hat is the same but the charms on the tips of the hat are seashells. Finally, there's a pair of yellow goggles around her neck

Ragatha - Ragatha has a flower crown of purple (or blue, since I heard that the purple is actually intended to be blue and the lighting just didn't work as intended) hibiscus around her head. She wears a coconut bra held together with purple straps and she's got a hula skirt resembling the bottom half of her canon dress. There is a smaller green grass skirt above it, though. And lastly, Ragatha's barefoot

Zooble - Zooble's got a ukulele for a body, the handle being their neck, and the ukulele is designed like the canon body. The pink triangle head is the same but there's tropical stuff for the limbs and the antenna and extra stuff. Like there's a telescope and a squiggly eel for antenna and an octopus tentacle for one of the legs, and a lobster claw for one of the arms. Examples of the extra stuff would be a sand dollar hanging from the chest and a palm tree leaf attached to the back

Jax - Jax is in a full diver's suit, mostly red like his overalls but with streaks of yellow down the sides. And when I say diver's suit, I mean the ones you wear for scuba diving, those skin-tight kind of things. The gloves from canon are still on his hands and he's still barefoot

Kinger - Kinger's bare-chested but has on a purple grass skirt. The skirt has white fluff at its hem and the fluff is specked with black. There's two leis around his neck, one stretching longer than the other. The shorter lei is the same as the fluff, white and specked with black. The longer one is completely purple

Gangle - Her mask is still the same but she's adorned with a feathery, flowery headdress, primarily with reds but there's also some yellow joined in. Of course, her mask still breaks

Caine - Caine is simple-dressed for a kahuna, with the red Hawaiian shirt with the white palm tree design and a pair of black swimming trunks. He does have a black hibiscus flower on the side of his head (whichever side is the one that says that he's spoken for, will need to check that again). His feet has on black flipflops and his cane is the semblance of a palm tree. You know, brown handle, coconut ball at the end where Caine would hold it, and there's palm tree leaves surrounding it. Finally, there'd be a lei of black hibiscus flowers around his neck

Bubble - Bubble's an orange-red color, the same as lava. That's because he's a lava bubble, even dripping bits of that stuff from himself

I'll even include the two abstractions we at least know about so here goes!

Kaufmo - Kaufmo has a yellow tank top with red dots going down the front and also a pair of blue swimming trunks. He's got on a pair of red flippers and a pair of blue googles around his neck. Finally, on his head is a yellow cap slightly tapered to a point on the top, adorned with a red ball. Though the part of the cap that gives his face some shade is blue

Queenie - Queenie has a red grass skirt with the same kind of fluff as Kinger's but she also had a red cloth wrapping around her torso (think of the top to Lilo's hula outfit). And she's got a lei, too, and you probably guessed that it matches the fluff to the hem of her skirt

Yeah, I stuck to canon designs as much as I could, just changing it for an island setting, but hey. That's what I wanted. As for the characters to Candy Carrier Chaos, I'll have to think on that. These ones here are the ones I got for now

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The Antartic Short

Yeah, the one that came out yesterday as of this time. Where I.M.P. went to the artic or whatever. It was absolutely impressive, how it was only almost four and a half minutes and that was enough time for it to have three major things that made me pause and question shit. It's been bugging me since I saw it so I just gotta put it in a post

First problem, which isn't as major as the other two as far as bugging me goes, Millie actually claims that the slaughter at the station is more brutal than fucking wrath beasts. You mean to tell me that that generic-looking aftermath of a massacre is worse than anything you can find in the fucking Wrath Ring in Hell? And yeah, I'm calling it generic because come. On! That little tease of a slaughter at the beginning of Full Moon looked worse than that and I.M.P. were the ones to cause it!

Honestly, I don't get at all that demons in Hell have standards. Hell is supposed to have the worst of what humankind have to offer and hellborn should only be slightly better than that, if they're gonna be better at all. Really, the morality standards never made sense anyway. Like how mafia in the past believe that it's being gay that will damn you to Hell and not the whole killing people shit. So why the fuck are Blitzo and Moxxie looking unnerved at Millie committing arson to the psycho penguins? Just don't care!

Second problem, the Asmodean crystal and it's majorly impractical requirement to work. Fuck seriously, Seeing Stars established that Earth is just as dangerous as Hell so I refuse to believe that the succubi, incubi, and other demons like Barbie would never be in danger if they traveled to Earth. That means there's always a chance that they could be in danger from a psycho or something and need to make a quick getaway. They won't have time to go to fucking town on their fucking crystal! Really, what if the time spent pleasing their damn crystal is the time that it takes for the danger to reach them and kill them off? So the Asmodean crystal is even worse as a way to and from the human world because at least the grimoire doesn't need the goddamn TLC to work! Really, goes to show that even when Stolas is giving a 'thoughtful' gift, he really didn't bother to put any thought to it where it really counted. What's more, Blitzo so as fuck never used that tongue shit in Apology Tour and the beginning of the short so why the hell did it turn into a problem then? I want a fucking in-universe explanation, not the meta reason Rule of Funny!

And third problem - this section being rather NSFW - what the fuck does that mean that Blitzo being a top automatically means that he's not good at oral? If anything, I would have expected a top to do oral than a bottom! What's more - again - the whole damn point of Apology Tour was to establish that Blitzo's a shitty person, he was, and that he needs and wants to change. That was the whole damn point. That means being good at bed, being a practical good at it, is the only thing that Blitzo had going for himself when it came to scoring that many exes in the damn first place! If he's a shitty person and shit in the sheets, then how the fuck did he ever get that many exes? Especially female exes. Some people believe that Blitzo is so selfish that he never wanted to go down on someone, there was even someone who said that he especially never went down on a woman before, and I'm like... am I even supposed to believe that Blitzo is even bisexual anymore, let alone pan? Blitzo was always depicted as a sex hungry deviant as long as it wasn't Stolas. Am I really supposed to believe that Blitzo never wanted to go down on people because he wanted to? He could easily not care about his partner's pleasure but wouldn't he go down on people like that because he personally wanted to? Even if that shit was supposed to be true, what about all the fucking times when Blitzo and Stolas would have sex on the full moon? Wouldn't have Stolas demanded for Blitzo to eat him out at any of those sex sessions? That Blitzo would want to be super ultra good at sex to please him enough to keep the book for another month?

Like damn, these shorts and episodes and anything of Viv's works only is enjoyable you watch each one in a vacuum. Even when a previous episode or whatever is being addressed, you still have to have a certain extent of obliviousness to what's being referenced so that you don't get taken out of the viewing experience

Established But Not Quite Couples

And what I mean by that is that, yeah, we know a couple is together. We just don't know how, exactly, they're together. They could be dating or they could just be fuck friends. If nothing is outright said or confirmed directly, either in the show or even by the mouth of anyone in charge of it, then I'm not running on my assumptions. So far, there's only one couple I really know who applies so here it goes.

Mayberry and Martha -

This couple is living together but that doesn't automatically mean a relationship. Like I said, they could just be fuck friends. Not to mention, more importantly (at least to me to bring up)...

These two women being together doesn't make any fucking sense to me. Mayberry caught her husband cheating on her with Martha and went on a literal murderous rampage. Martha not only got almost killed by her but had to deal with assassins that Mayberry hired because she hated that much that Martha died.

Even if Martha doesn't know about the hired hit part, there's still the 'I-almost-got-killed-by-you' part. Why the fuck would anyone want to be intimately involved with someone who tried murdering them? Typically, you gotta be outright forced to be with someone who does that shit. And while Mayberry may have gotten revenge on who she wanted dead, I doubt that means she completely got over it and would be - likely should be - incensed if she ever came across Martha again.

Seriously, of all the female same sex couples for the show to put out, why did have to be the two women who, by all logical means, shouldn't even want to be in the same fucking room together, let alone be fuck friends?

Then there's not getting into Martha's family, which is its own can of worms. Sure, maybe the family managed to escape before the cops came since Moxxie did tell them that he would call them. Or maybe Ralph and the kids landed in a different spot from Martha when falling down in Hell and couldn't find her, especially Hell should be a huge, overpopulated place. All in all, it's one of the most improbable things ever that the family would personally want their beloved wife and mom to be with someone who tried killing her

Martha cheating on her husband, that's something people bring up sometimes. Except I don't think that was ever a problem because she and her family are cannibals. Wouldn't be surprised if Ralph not only allows his wife to seduce men to lure into their home to trap and eat later but also that Ralph does the same thing for women (and of course gay men for Ralph if the man swings both ways, like how Martha likely seduces the gay women). As for the kids, they're likely told by their parents that Martha just takes men to their home and get all close to those men because it's all part of the trap

Moments of Stupidity 17

Here we go. Apology Tour. Just... there are so many moments that are flat out nonsensical from a writer's viewpoint but, as previously established, I'm just going over the decisions that don't make sense story-wise.

I guess for starters, Blitzo for going out of his way to talk to Stolas. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome or he's getting so desperate for someone to be there to care that he dies and thinks he's not really having that with Loona or Millie or Moxxie and he's burned so many bridges that Stolas managed to be the one that Blitzo will settle for, but I cannot think of any logical reason otherwise that Blitzo would try talking things out with Stolas. After all, Blitzo's got a crystal now; he's even used it in this episode a few times. Blitzo doesn't have to do anything with an owl who coerced him into a sex deal, constantly demeaned and belittled him, and is actively acting like he never did such things or that he's off the hook just because of the initiative to call of the deal. So why the fuck is Blitzo wanting to patch things up with Stolas? He could get another hookup to have angry sex with or have a transactional relationship if that's what he wants, and it'll actually be on his terms that time. (Again, I got my theories but I got no indicator in the show if I'm right on either one and it's the most improbable thing ever that the show will actually go any other route than romantic endgame).

I also don't get why the fuck Blitzo doesn't bring up some damn good points in that argument with Stolas, either. Striker has never been a fucking friend, especially not when Millie and Moxxie, imps that Stolas should at least know are associated with Blitzo, fought Striker to save his fucking life. Why the hell would Blitzo want his declared family to around a guy who wouldn't think twice about killing them? Blitzo's not that callous. Plus, there's also the fact that Stolas was entirely blasé about being kidnapped, gave no useful information on how to find him and Striker, and Blitzo talked about how Loona, his daughter, is finally getting a shot she needs and she can't afford to miss it. Where is that very good memory you gloated about having, Stolas? But again, I don't get why Blitzo never brought any of that up, like how Husk didn't bring up that Angel harassed him and pushed his boundaries when told by Vaggie to go get him. (Is the hellaverse a world you're allowed to sexually harass people if you're not as bad as certain other people and so there's no point even bringing up that you're sexually harassing people like it's anything important, especially when you're upset about something?) But I digress

Finally, I don't get Blitz's fucking apology list. Martha because not only she was a hit, meaning that Moxxie is just as guilty and Millie, too, but also that the bitch tried to kill them. I agree with Millie. You don't have to feel too bad about killing people if they try killing you (I just would rather it was self-defense than killing you back). The Dhorks agents make even less sense because they were the ones who started shit first, with the kidnapping and the later attempted murder. There's also Brennan Ragers, since Octavia is actually the one to kill him even if it was just an accident. Oh, and I rather don't like that Moxxie's name was on that list but there was a question mark next to it, like Blitzo is genuinely unsure if he ever did anything to Moxxie to be sorry for

Finally, there's Blitzo's just showing up at the party where all his exes are. Considering that he apparently has broken up with so many people who thoroughly hate him to the point where they get together every year to hate their mutual ex, then why the fuck would Blitzo not bother with a disguise right from the get go? Maybe to an extent, the partygoers, unless drunk or whatever shit, are too stupid to notice their most hated ex just being at the fucking party

Of course, there's goddamn fucking Stolas. His moments are mostly more subdued but they're still noticeable and it has lasting power. Like I said above, Stolas is actively acting like he was never a condescending prick and it's not entirely his fucking fault that Blitzo sees him the way he does. Like... Stolas... if you mean to tell me you truly never thought you were behaving badly in the sense of looking down on Blitzo... then what the fuck did you think you were doing? There's missing social cues and stuff and then there's fucking social braindead-ness. How the fuck does someone end up this socially inept? Even though Stolas was isolated in childhood save for some imp servants, but then he got to be around more people when he became an adult. Considering how eager for friends he was when Blitzo was bought to be his playmate and how Stolas is stuck with an angry woman he doesn't even like, you'd think Stolas would be eager to try talking to other nobles at the very least. We know that he attends parties even if they're by Stella's design and there's no literally no reason to think that Stolas can't go to other events hosted by others. Yet Stolas remains just as socially inept even when surrounded by more people, even if it's just in comparison to his childhood. So how the fuck does Stolas live his life around others and think that it's flattering to be called a plaything? In fact, just the way he handled breaking off the deal in Full Moon was stupid but I'll get to that when I talk about the post exclusively about the Stolitz relationship (And holy fuck, do I have a list over how much I think it sucks and why and to think, the show's not over yet)

Establishing Couples of Hazbin

What I mean by the title is that I'll be talking about couples that were couples from the start but were built up to be during the show. Now I put Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss together when talking about how the 'healthy' couples were still problematic as all fuck; honestly, it's like the healthy couples were just called healthy because the people involved are actually happy to be next to each other most of the time. I guess that's healthier in comparison to the messy couples

Anyways, the only built-up couples in Hazbin I can think of are two while Stolas and Blitzo is the only couple really being built up in Helluva. And Stolitz is practically the whole show of Helluva Boss by now so they need their own post.

And the thing is, whether it's stable or messy, all the couples in the hellaverse suck. They suck on some level, in some shape or form. Just, again, the healthy couples are probably just better in comparison to other relationships because the people involved are actually typically happy to be together.

(Also bringing up episode 4 at a couple points and I don't mean any disrespect if I don't have the same opinions as some. Just my own perspective and nothing more)

Cherri Bomb and Sir Pentious -

This is pretty short given how there's very little development to their relationship to the point (Seriously, TVtropes says that if one doesn't watch the pilot, it can feel that way, but no. I watched the damn pilot before the show and it still felt like it was out of nowhere). Anyways, there's a serious lack of concern about consent from both sides. Pentious might be the lesser of two evils at best, since he went ahead and stole a kiss from Cherri.

Of course, since I said that Pentious is the lesser of two evils, then Cherri is so much fucking worse. Particularly when she just let people drag an unwilling Pentious into a sex room to have sex. Granted, absolutely everyone didn't give a fuck that Pentious was being forced into sex but in this relationship, why the fuck would I want him to be with a woman who didn't a bat her eye at what was happening at the damn club? In fact, why would I want Pentious to be with a woman who only ever had any visible interest in him when Angel mentioned the 'two dicks' thing? Cherri could have gone to literally any snake demon in Hell if that's what she's going to care about. And if she would have liked Pentious because he's nice, then Cherri might think that he's easy to manage. Considering the shit she did at the club, I can't be convinced that Cherri would never think of Pentious as 'easy to manage'

Husk and Angel Dust -

Considering this was more important to the writers, there's more development but I still think of it as messed up and/or problematic from both sides.

First up, on Angel, he constantly invaded Husk's boundaries and personal space and just kept doing it no matter how blatantly Husk hates it. There's even a possibility that the scene at the bar in episode 4 was even a power move on Angel's part, just wanting to feel powerful or in charge for once. And just because there's a reason why Angel would do that doesn't mean I'll think it's okay for him to do that

I guess Husk takes in stride, while we're moving onto him. For whatever reason, he just cares that Angel is fake that it makes it fine that his boundaries were pushed all the time. I'm getting that impression anyways. But then he starts insulting him in the song and I first had the legitimate impression that Husk was doing it on purpose to get back at Angel for the harassment. Husk also seems to care about influencing Angel however he wants even if it's not consistent. Like how he says that Angel should have pride in being, according to the lines in the song, 'a coked-up dick-sucking ho' but then he turns around and makes it sound bad that Angel is maybe thinking about indulging in drugs

I guess Husk and Angel are fine when the writers didn't have them fight but I still think how they were before hooking up wasn't really all that great, especially if it's supposed to be a good relationship. I mean, I wouldn't consider it good if I got together with someone who continuously acted like they got better things to do than care about if they made me comfortable. The same for someone who makes me feel like I'm being insulted in some attempt to 'cheer me up' after I break down. (I got a little confused about some things that Angel said when he broke down so I didn't take him all that seriously when he went on about it but I digress and the point still stands)

Moments of Stupidity 16

Well, since Full Moon came out, it was probably only a matter of time before this, huh? I guess I wanna say first is, I'm feeling rather different than when I first started.

At the beginning, I just wanted to vent. Let anger out. I mean, as much as I have people on the lookout for my posts - which I'm flattered by - I'm still just one of many posting stuff on this site. I'm definitely not the first one to share their dislike over what goes on in Helluva Boss and I doubt I'll be the last.

Over time, I watch the shows more and more and now pretty pictures and some good songs are the standard I have now because, irrational and angry or sane and calm, I still can't get behind the writing at times. Still, I continued this series of posts about stupidity in the shows because I was being fueled by people liking these posts.

Now I'm wondering if I'll just be disappointing one of my parents if I make these posts. Because I talked with them about something and they were right. No matter how much people don't like Vivienne, she managed to be successful and do something right, if she's managed to get A24 interested in airing her show and get that show on Amazon Prime. No matter who doesn't like that, that's still what happened.

Like Stephan King and J.K. Rowling, for example. Those two got their haters but they still got their fans because they're still doing something right, especially writing wise. You might not think that's a good comparison considering the examples I'm using but it's true in the sense that they and Vivienne still are successful due to their works because they all got their fans who helped them get that successful.

So yeah, I know that I can seem disappointing to my parent that I've been angrily posting about a successful show despite how it's not going to change that success and there's a very real chance that I will, should I tell them about it. Especially since I'm still doing at least this post. I guess I can still do this for fun or because I know people will still look forward to these moments of stupidity. I'll have to think on it

In any case, I started this post to still talk about how actions in the screenplay are dumb so I might as well deliver on what I promised. Thanks to anyone and everyone who bothered reading all of this, as well as those who don't get upset over the above.

Full Moon -

So there's D.H.O.R.K.S. first. They not only didn't get any better at interrogation since they got no real way of knowing that Keenie and Cletus were really telling the truth - and they weren't, especially about the exorcists - but there's also the suits. The suits obviously fit the cherubs but Agent One and Agent Two reasonably would never expect to meet them to give the suits to so that the battle suits could be used. I can't even think of kids being sent because they decided not to after last time. So who the fuck would Agent One and Agent Two put in those battle suits?

I guess there's the cherubs, too, for having been stealthy enough with the 'worried mother' bit but then be obvious as fuck when following Blitzo. I mean, the disguise as the mother was kind of strange but like Moxxie said, they weren't exactly covert. How could the cherubs think they would never be spotted when their upper halves were sticking out of the damn bushes?

Other than that, then the biggest moment of stupidity goes to none other than Stolas. Starting up the conversation the way he did is one thing (yes, really, it could be chalked up to Stolas being severely sheltered and alone growing up) but it's another thing entirely to make it sound like Blitzo is the one who makes it all about sex and getting upset about it. Seriously. Stolas is the one who made the deal that centers around sex. He's the one who always spewed sexual shit out of his mouth in most of season 1 and a couple episodes in season 2. He's the one Blitzo was talking about when he said 'don't make it anything more than you (Stolas) wanting me (Blitzo) to fuck you'. Even at the very first meeting that Stolas and Blitzo ever had, Stolas was the one who thought of taking Blitzo to his room and say that he's there to ravish him. How was it Blitzo's fault that that was on Stolas's mind? Yeah, Blitzo may have been the one to initiate sex but it sure seems like to me that he only did that because Stolas gave him the idea of sex being a possibility. Even if Stolas just said the 'ravish me' line as a joke, it still gave Blitzo the idea to have sex. (By the way, that's a very weird joke to make with a friend, especially one you had literally only one playdate with over twenty years ago). Naturally, by this episode, Stolas has practically conditioned Blitzo to make everything about sex when Stolas is in the picture yet this damn owl is upset that his confession wasn't being taken seriously

The Big Question on Blitzo

Yeah, I forgot to put this in my last post so I'll put it here. You see, everyone goes on and on and on about how Blitzo needs the grimoire to do his business and just the grimoire and Stolas holds it over his head. Now, what Stolas does is despicable but there's something else that I hardly hear anyone else mention. The most buzz about the matter to any capacity that we got was soon after Unhappy Campers aired.

I made an anonymous ask before about why Blitzo doesn't try escaping from Stolas and yeah, getting an explanation from another commenter, it made me embarrassed that I even asked. Like I asked something so incredibly obvious and I legit needed someone to spell it out. But there's still the other thing I was wondering that, as far as I know, hasn't been answered.

Why the fuck were the Asmodean crystals not a thing at the start?

I mean, yeah, Viv isn't good at writing, but that's the out-of-universe reason. In universe, though... we got nothing.

Seriously, there's so many instances where Viv and the other writers don't put in even some throwaway lines as an explanation for shit. Maybe they'll explain this but that's a very strong maybe. Because at this point, my expectations are so lowered that I know that I have to stop hoping for things that I want to see. Like how I hoped the Ozzie and Fizz mid season special would show us how those two met and got closer, only to get Daddy Issues number 5 or something.

But anyways, Unhappy Campers showed that the crystals are better than the grimoire in every single way. More portable, more abundant, doesn't require reading the spells or anything, just need a touch of the button or something, imps are apparently allowed to have them if Barbie is any indication, they even readily provide human disguises. Really, it's the whole shebang.

So really, in universe, what reason is there for Blitzo to not have a crystal from the start? Why did Blitzo think it was more worth it or at least less trouble to go out of his way to break into a demonic prince's home and steal something that said prince WILL eventually notice is missing, if only because of the Harvest Moon Festival? What reason is there for Moxxie or Millie or even Loona to not have any crystals themselves?

Maybe Blitzo lost all legal permission to use crystals and is blacklisted or something. Maybe there's a very specific and exact process to make it okay to own and use a crystal and Blitzo doesn't have the patience and/or time, not if he wants to survive NOW. Maybe there's something in the crystals that let higher-ups know that they're being used illegally so Blitzo and the others can't just mug a succubus or incubus or their crystals. Maybe Loona is too young and then too lazy to bother, especially since she's not let out into the field by her dad. Maybe Moxxie just cared about getting away from his father and took the chance to leave, having no time to really get anything from his home to make surviving and getting by easier, including any Asmodean crystals. Maybe Millie is influenced by her parents who have pride in thinking more with fists than with actual brains so it never occurred to her to get any crystals.

Then again, it's not good writing if I have to guess or speculate all the reasons why Blitzo and anyone else in I.M.P. don't have a better version of the grimoire. And this is a super fucking important question, why don't they have any crystals right from the get go?

Apparently, Viv and the other writers want to make it that Blitzo has a messy, complex affair with Stolas because the owl has something that the former is interested in and needs to secure having it. If that's what they want to do, then obviously, they can do that. Except if they're going to include something that ultimately makes the grimoire worthless in the grand scheme of things, then we NEED an explanation for why things are the way they are. And as far as I know, Viv and no one else on the writing team even said why on twitter or a youtube livestream so we don't have an answer both in the show and outside of it

Really, as long as Blitzo is still going to rob a demon prince and take something that the absence of WILL be noticed eventually, then it's only natural that he suffers for it in some shape or form. It's stupid for him to expect getting away with it, especially if he's going to, for whatever fucking reason, think that it's better to do that than to just take some damn crystals from some ordinary succubi and/or incubi. Considering how Blitzo doesn't deserve the sexual coercion and really could never have seen it coming, though, I guess I just wish the writers could have made him suffer different consequences for his poorly thought-out plan

New Thoughts on Blitzo

Warning, people who love Stolas should stay away. And okay, so I've been through tumblr, I heard about the new episodes, and I even saw the trailer for the rest of season 2. I gotta say, I have a new perspective on Blitzo. At the very least, I'm feeling sorry for him

Not that the situation with Stolas was never anything to brush off. To be exact, from the very beginning, I was more infuriated at Blitzo's behavior. The shit he did to Moxxie and to an extent Millie, the shit he did to Verosika, to Fizzarolli, to Barbie. Really, to me, the crap that Blitzo did was far more noticeable to be than the crap Stolas was doing. Like a favorite child and an unfavorite to an abusive parent. Yeah, you'd think it's super obvious who has it good just by looking at it, but you end up missing how the favorite child suffers, too, from their position. In this case, I paid more attention to the the unfavorite child's acting out that I didn't notice how problematic the favorite really was.

Hearing what I heard, though... and seeing the trailer. Well, Blitzo's situation with Stolas has gotten worse and worse over time. Now it's reached a point where not only can I not look at it and think nothing of it anymore, but I actually feel bad for Blitzo. Really, being guilt tripped and attacked over and over to get with the one who made you feel like it really is just about sex, someone who would get mad at you for not loving them like they wanted when you fail their test... that's something I wouldn't want to wish on my worst enemy. No matter how much I hate Blitzo, I wouldn't wish this on him.

Even without that, there's so much ACTUAL shit that Blitzo has done that warrants the relentless attack that the trailer showed snippets of. Stalking, harassment, video taping and watching people have sex without even their knowledge, let alone their consent, breaking and entering, maxing out credit cards and leaving debt for others to take care of, leaving someone to highly likely die regardless of the reasons for doing so, tracking someone down for a week straight regardless of whether or not they want to see you and make THEM the bitch for the voluntary week-long search, and constant insulting and belittling and sheer disrespect in general... yet the thing that Blitzo is gonna ever be held accountable for is not being in love with Stolas. What the fuck? It's like the show's writers are saying that not being in love with someone is the only real crime down there in Hell

And yeah, for the two paragraphs above, I said 'test'. Because ultimately, at seeing that sneak peek of that 'duet', that's what it feels like Stolas's end. That he just wants to see that he doesn't really need the grimoire to have Blitzo. What's more, Stolas clearly has his expectations. He says things like 'can' and 'could' when dreaming about that little fairytale ending with Blitzo that he wants but from the way he carries himself, it's like he's taking it for granted that he will get that fairytale ending. I guess his test will just be something like a formality instead of a test, now that I think about it

I legitimately will never understand people who sees this show as a masterpiece that's perfection representation and all that jazz. If they can enjoy it, fine, but when I hear praise like that, it feels like to me like you're drinking water and you claim it's actually liquidized macaroni and cheese. With no flavor packets with a mac-and-cheese flavor at all

Lucifer (TV show) vs Hazbin Hotel

So I found out what Lucifer's take on Hell. I mean the TV show, not the character himself. Yeah, I never went out of my way to watch the show. That was more something my mom watched but I never actively paid attention to it. I only found out Lucifer's take on Hell when I was going through youtube and I gotta say. I don't like it.

According to the show Lucifer, people damn themselves down to Hell thanks to the guilt they feel from all the things they do. While I'm sure most people feel guilt, very clearly not everyone does. The sociopaths who rape, murder, cannibalize, and other atrocities, those people will never damn themselves down to Hell because they'll never think they deserve to be down there. So I don't like the idea of people like those instantly going up to heaven when it's like that. And there's the fact that feeling guilt can be an indicator of someone being a good person, in some cases like, say, a person killing in self-defense, yet they'll damn themselves to Hell. So that's another thing I don't like

In contrast, no one in Hazbin Hotel apparently knows how someone gets to Heaven. At most, they just know when someone gets there. Kind of strange to me that no one has ever bothered trying to figure out a pattern but staying on track here... at least it isn't guilt that determines who goes where. People called it a cop out, that no one knows the requirements, but I'm not up for that whole thing about guilt being that determining factor

I'm sure I'm not the only one of my opinion but I'm kind of curious. Which one would you consider worse? Guilt being the determining factor for who goes to Heaven or Hell or some system that doesn't run on guilt but is still unknown to everyone? In any case, wanted to get I'm guessing a nitpick off my chest

My Gripes with the Midseason Special

Yep, another post that I put down my less-than-favorable feelings about Helluva Boss. This time, it'll be about the currently latest episode, the Midseason Special. As always, any fans who love it as is should stay away from this post

So I had my gripes for a while and I finally got around to writing it down. The bummer about this is, it's actually something I would have loved seeing but I got bogged down by the spectacularly bad writing that is Helluva Boss by then. A heavy focus on Asmodeus and Fizzarolli, especially together, and minimal showcasing of Blitzo. (I don't think I'm alone in thinking that he really should have just stayed in the flashback but at least he didn't get shoved in too much outside of it)

Although Blitzo's actual screentime outside the flashback did get to me. First off, him taking his sweet fucking time shooting the entitled, creepy asshole. Seriously, he was there for freaking security; yeah, Ozzie intended Blitzo to talk Fizz out of continuing to work for Mammon but he was supposed to be security, especially as far as Fizz knew.

Yet Blitzo never shot the bastard when he started trash talking Fizz. He never shot the bastard when Fizz was very clearly having a panic attack as the rant went on. Blitzo never even shot the bastard when he gave a damn warning that he would. No, he just flat out punches the creep instead. That feels so lame! And of course, Blitzo let that creep kick the door down to Fizz's dressing room with a knife in his hands. Why would Blitzo let it get that far?

What makes all that even worse is that Blitzo was able to shot a dirty humper off Fizz while they were swooshing around in the air so you know for a fact that Blitzo was more than capable of shooting the creep before he even laid a hand or foot on the damn door. It was like the writers just wanted Blitzo to see Fizz and Ozzie be all lovey-freaking-dovey with each other and do the hypocrites joke on them

Honestly, the fact that Blitzo was so incompetent about shooting this one asshole made me feel pissed off to see Blitzo being caring for Fizz. Seriously, he had the freaking gall to ask if Fizz is okay when he let the creep trash-talk Fizz for as long as he did

That's my biggest gripe with Blitzo in the episode but I did get annoyed at him for that dirty joke at the end because why wouldn't a Helluva Boss episode end with some dirty joke if not melodramatic moment or someone being an unfunny jerkass for the sake of an ending joke? (Seriously, I started building up a decent opinion on Blitzo in Exes and Oohs, only for Blitzo to thoroughly tear it down to smithereens with that last line of his in Unhappy Campers. I seriously hate that I'm stuck with that asshole as the main character as I weather it out for my actual favorites)

My other biggest gripe is, unfortunately, Fizzarolli. Because the thing is, as much as I hated that Blitzo was forgiven by Fizz and that flashback so weakly establishing what beef they had for each other, I did enjoy Fizz's characterization in that episode. I loved that Fizz was a non-combative who needed to be protected from physical danger but he didn't let that stop him from being so damn mouthy and sassy. Seriously, Fizz was duct taped by the fucking Mafia and was threatened by Striker and Fizz still had the guts to call Striker 'fuck face' and heavily imply that his breath was bad. Even then, when he got on the field - so to speak - Fizz still did whatever he could to protect himself. He tried that horn thing he used on Ozzie in the morning, he tried using a banana peel, he ran with as much gusto as possible, and he readily provided a distraction for Blitzo to do his thing. Fizz was amazing! Even though he didn't know how to fight, even though he wasn't good at fighting, Fizz didn't let that stop him from fighting back however he could or from surviving and I loved that.

Then the Midseason Special happens and Fizz is so bizarrely sensitive all of a sudden. He was so non-combative and sensitive that it kept me thinking back to the last episode and wonder 'why is this different for Fizz? Why can he mouth off the fucking mafia but not a random asshole who clearly doesn't have a life?' My feisty jester who didn't let being physical weak stop him from fighting however he could is gone! Seriously, how am I supposed to enjoy a characterization that Stolas has already owned since the beginning of fucking season 2!?

I don't mean any disrespect for people who gone through what Fizz did in the Midseason Special, just so you know. What I have a problem with is that it's specifically Fizz who's the way that he is in this episode. I can get Fizz not being able to do a thing about Mammon, deadly sin and all, but why is he letting this random asshole get to him this much this easily? And Glitz and Glam, for that matter. Why is Fizz just letting him be bitches off stage? Season one Fizz or even just the Fizz from the very last episode wouldn't let it slide, regardless of preparations to beat them in the competition

The last gripe I could have is that Fizz and Ozzie are too soft for my taste now. It's like Millie and Moxxie if both sides were male and they actually get a conflict with some meat to it in an episode they star in, even if the conflict's definitely going to be resolved by the end. Anyways, I was okay with how their relationship was like in Oops but then the Midseason Special happens and now it's too sweet that it legit feels like cringe to me. It actually makes me miss the season 1 portrayals, where Fizz and Ozzie seemed like a villainous couple who not only enjoyed each other's company but also enjoyed being villainous together. They were an awful couple who was more awful to everyone around them but completely loving or at least caring towards each other. That was great! I would have wanted to see that! I'd still want to see the Fizzmodeus show over the Stolitz one but they're still way too sugary sweet

Sexualities of Blitzo Cash

Okay, so this is probably going to offend people and I'm sorry for that but let me explain when I say this: I doubt Blitzo is actually pansexual.

So Blitzo has had multiple people when it came to his sex life or romantic interests over the course of the series and I thought about them all. Then I realized something: they're almost all guys

All the people Blitzo is confirmed on-screen, more or less, to have had sex with: Stolas and Chaz

All the people Blitzo has had sexual interest in: Moxxie, Fizzarolli, occasionally Millie, and maybe season 1 Striker (come on, for that last one, if you watched the episode, you'd at least see how I can see it)

All the people Blitzo definitely has had a relationship with: Verosika

Just to put it all together so that you can see it better -

Moxxie

Fizzarolli

Stolas

Chaz

Verosika

Occasionally Millie

Maybe season 1 Striker

See? Five out of seven on the list are guys. I got no indication that any of them are trans, either, so they were born male and stuck with it

I don't mean anything bad, either, when I bring up the trans thing. What I'm getting at is, if you're going to have a character you say is pansexual, AND give them as many people to be interested in like how Viv and the rest of the writers did for Blitzo, then why not take advantage of your character being pansexual?

If a character had a list even as long as Blitzo's, then the writers should have thrown in a trans person in it, as well as a nonbinary person and a genderfluid one and maybe even whoever else is on the spectrum. Fuck, the Helluva Boss writers couldn't even have thrown in some more women for Blitzo than just Verosika and sometimes Millie

Really, by the time the episode Oops came along, when I saw the fucking 'make out' request that Blitzo made of Fizz, I became convinced that Verosika was only created and that the occasional interest in Millie popped up at all JUST to prove that Blitzo isn't exclusively gay. But instead of making me think that he's pan, I just think he's bisexual with a heavy leaning towards men than women

The 'Healthy' Couples

I thought of this a few days ago and wanted to put this up but I realized how all the established couples in Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss that are meant to be healthy and stable... become problematic later on. Like, even though it's obvious the two involved in a couple love each other, it doesn't take away the problems that end up forming regardless of that love. So far, I'm thinking of three canon 'healthy' couples so I'll just talk about them. Also, I'd like to give credit for a youtuber named Sarcastic Chorus because I like listening to his videos and I thought he had good points. I'm bound to word them in my own way since I would up agreeing with Chorus

Millie and Moxxie. Yeah, this is the first couple we really followed, especially when Helluva Boss made way, and they became problematic over time. Their relationship consists of nothing more than Moxxie doing big, romantic gestures for Millie, Millie protecting Moxxie from physical danger if she happens to be there, and those two being attached at the hip. And as for the middle thing, yeah, I put physical danger because Millie does fuck all whenever friends and family insult them. I'm not counting the angry glares and dirty faces because it's not like they're actually effective at getting her husband's bullies to stop picking on Moxxie. Finally, it's seriously sad that Millie and Moxxie don't have much in the ways of family and especially friends (a point I wanna bring up while I'm here). For Moxxie, his family is just his parents and one of them is dead. The mafia members only count as family as people who do crime together so no to them. Then there's Millie's family, which consists of a mom, dad, and a bunch of siblings. Except Millie never mentions them both before and after Harvest Moon Festival and she still lets them get away with treating her husband like shit. Then again, it's worse in the case of their 'friends', who are just Blitzo and Loona. It truly sounds sad to me that there's no indication that Millie and Moxxie ever hang out with anyone outside of I.M.P. or even try to. As a result, Loona and Blitzo, Moxxie's daily bullies, are the closest to friends that this married couple has and of course Millie lets them get away with the shit they do to her husband even though it should be less hard with them than with family. If anyone brings up that Millie and Moxxie will lose their jobs, well, there's always job hunting, which neither of them ever seem to do

Fizzarolli and Asmodeus. Since their characterization seems to differ from episode to episode that they appear in - to me, anyways - I think I can sum it up like this. Ozzie's protectiveness makes Fizz feel like he's being smothered and Fizz gets undermined quite a bit. Like how he's insistent on going to the pageant and Ozzie hires Blitz to talk Fizz out of it, I think it made Fizz feel like he can't handle things on his own. Granted, he was written bizarrely sensitive in that episode (I guess I might as well get to that on another post on a later date) but it's like, has Ozzie ever thought about asking Fizz what he wanted before just doing his own thing? Sure, Ozzie pampers him, praises him, and all that, and if Fizz is the kind to let others take the lead, that's all fine and dandy. However, I think that, even if you're the kind to let others lead and take care of you, you still want things. You still want independence. So I can imagine how frustrating it must be that you never seem to be able to really make your own choices. I don't think there's been an instance so far that Fizz was able to do what he wanted without having to debate Ozzie over it or charm him with puppy dog eyes first. Even though Fizz needed to get away from his horrible work environment, especially since he'll definitely have Ozzie by the end of the day, but Blitzo and Ozzie still seemed a little too take-charge of Fizz that it's like they think they can just tell him what they want of him. Really, all this was just tolerable because Fizz's strangely gung-ho for a stressful situation that he didn't need to be in to start with and that Blitzo and Ozzie just kept their attempts at talking him out of it. There's also the fact that Fizz doesn't seem to have anyone other Ozzie and Blitzo so his social life is severely clipped despite Fizz being a celebrity. Really, that's a problem that couples 1 and 2 seem to have, that their work lives and romance lives are directly intertwined. As unfair as it might be to some couples, there's a reason why people don't want relationships between coworkers and there's especially a reason why people don't want relationships between bosses and their employees

Charlie and Vaggie. So this is bound to be an unpopular opinion but, throughout the show, I kept thinking that Charlie was a grown up child who had a babysitter instead of a girlfriend. Charlie never listened to Vaggie on anything, never took her into consideration at any point (barring their fight or whatever in episode 7), and apparently didn't know a thing about her. Yeah, the past as an exterminator angel is a big secret that obviously Vaggie isn't going to want to tell Charlie, but then I hear that they've been dating for three years. Who dates someone for three years and never wonder about their past or their background? I don't mean doing a freaking background check, either, like if someone wanted to adopt a child. What I mean is, don't people who love each other naturally want to know more about each other? Yet Charlie never wondered about that concerning Vaggie before? Then again, when Vaggie tried lying to get out of going to Heaven, Charlie actually never asked why she would do that to begin with. Then it's not any better on Vaggie's end. She got kicked out of heaven, abandoned in Hell, left for dead, so everything familiar to her is gone. Charlie's the closest bit of heaven that Vaggie's got left so that probably makes it that she wants to protect it with everything she's got. Not just protect but pamper and coddle, too. Otherwise, Vaggie might have issue with Charlie caring more about Vaggie messing up the performance of trust exercises than the fact that Vaggie fell on her ass on the floor or that Charlie legitimately behaved a lot like a toddler in episode 4. Even then, their relationship consists not much more than reassurances and comfort from one side to another

It's funny how these healthy relationships still end up having problems once the story expands enough. Really, they just look healthy and it's just on the first appearance of the couple. Like maybe there could turn out to be problems between Ralphie and Martha but we won't know because they're bound to not show up ever again past the first episode of Helluva Boss. So for now, Ralphie and Martha are just a healthy couple because we have only one episode of them to work with

At least I'm happy for these unintentional problems that the writers created for these couples because it means that we the fans can fix them with fanfiction

Expectations Going Forward

As much as I put this title, this post isn't anything much. Really, it's just a bunch of things I wanna say about Helluva Boss and, to a lesser extent, Hazbin Hotel. Still stray away from this post if you don't want shit talked about these shows

First up, I used to get pissed over characters and writing decisions in Helluva Boss. That's how I was able to make a list of posts about how stupid the characters are which led me to believe that the show is just an universe where everyone's a dumbass in some shape or form. Then I dulled down in my anger when making a realization: it feels like Helluva Boss is just an edgy soap opera.

I mean, I don't watch soap operas so the most info I got is when it's being parodied on shows I do watch or when I hear about real soap operas in passing. If I got it right, soap operas have mainly three things: clearly defined heroes and villains, lots of relationship drama, and big emotional moments

Like sure, the heroes might be as despicable as the villains or maybe more so but the show makes it obvious who you're supposed to root for no matter what the heroes do. Then there's the big emotional moments thanks to either the heroes and villains that the soap operas clearly define or relationship drama. The relationship drama doesn't really need to have chemistry in soap operas just as long as it's a spectacle to watch. And the first two things create the big emotional moments to give us relief after a whole episode of it pounding in either how much of an evil bad guy that they were when oppressing the heroes or how two people are tragically kept from being a couple (or best friends again in the case of Blitz and Fizz) because of a misunderstanding or lack of communication or whatever other cliche tropes that soap operas like to use. It might even matter how much anything was built up or how well it was built up, either, just as well as it was to a certain extent before giving the big reliving emotional payoff

Really, from the sounds and looks of it, Helluva Boss checks all the major boxes of a soap opera. It's just more edgy because it has a shit ton of swearing and sex instead of a shit ton of Spanish. Sure, there's people who say that this show is some big masterpiece and they can go ahead and think that. I just can't think of this show as anything more than, as stated before, an edgy soap opera. It has gotten easier for me to see the show once I settled into that opinion

And honestly, I'm fully, completely expecting Hazbin Hotel to be that, too. Just a show full of spectacle, clearly defined heroes and villains, and big emotional moments. In another words, another edgy soap opera. I think it'll even have some relationship drama in the form of Angel Dust and Husk and that'll probably not have any actual chemistry, just as long as it looks sweet. Pretty much like Stolas and Blitz, although that one also has 'tragic' along with 'sweet'

My Reasons

So I felt like putting this, especially when posting up stuff is whenever I feel like it. And since I gave the new music video about Stolas a shot, I think I can list reasons why I still watch Helluva Boss and will plan to watch Hazbin Hotel when it's possible to.

For one, I got someone I watch the show with. I forgot if I ever specified who they are to me but they're someone I love and care about and they enjoy the show more genuinely than I would nowadays. So I get to enjoy watching my friend's reactions and have banter with them during it

Another, and it took watching the music video to realize it, but Helluva Boss is basically just a spectacle show. The problems I personally had with the show was more about characters and story so I didn't focus on any critiques of visuals. I do hear about the overabundance of red, at least some of the same characteristics showing up in every single introduced-in-show character, and visuals going by too fast. With or without, though, I get my moments where it is at least kind of cool to watch, like Millie's slaughter in Exes and Oops or Glitz and Glam singing their song. Sure, they may not do anything for the narrative or plot, maybe even make it worse, but I'm just saying they're cool to witness. And the newest music video was pretty to watch, like I thought it would

One last reason I got is that I do enjoy some characters. Moxxie, Fizz, Ozzie. Granted, for Moxxie, I'm hoping to never get another Unhappy Campers and I couldn't fully enjoy the Midseason Special because I kept being taken out of it. (And I feel a little bad, actually, for not being able to fully enjoy it since it did have the spotlight on Fizz and Ozzie. Maybe I get into that more in another post sometime)

Maybe it's not much why I continue to indulge in the show but some reason has gotta be better than none, right? Because then I'd be hate-watching and I would only have the energy to do it for a while before I just give up entirely

Moments of Stupidity 15

Okay, so, the episode was kind like Queen Bee to my surprise, there wasn't a lot I found. Anything I thought was stupid was more on a writing standpoint than anything and we all know by now the common criticisms of the writing. Since I just intend to list the moments of stupidity directly affecting the plot of an episode, then I guess here's what I got

Midseason Special -

(Yeah, I'm not putting the entire title, can't remember it all)

Anyways, Arick was definitely an idiot. It was like Chaz, though. It felt like he was supposed to be stupid because he was supposed to be that creepily obsessed fan. Plenty of those kinds of people are way too stuck up and full of themselves to really think all that straight. And Arick was definitely stupid that way when having a gun pointed at him and even shoved into his mouth yet was still mouthing off Fizzarolli

Then there's when the obsessed dumbass decided to just barge into Fizz's dressing room even though he should remember that Fizz had a bodyguard. Not to mention, Ozzie was there with him. Ozzie, weakest sin or not, would have fucking destroyed Arick in a heartbeat. Even if Ozzie wasn't around at the time, it's not like Ozzie would have left Fizz alone for long, not with how protective he is over his lover

I'm thinking a stupid moment goes to Ozzie, too, because all he ever does in the face of a situation of knowing that his lover's being treated like shit is trying to Fizz out of it and even wanting Blitz to be there for backup or whatever. Yeah, it was good that he did something, but the problem was that he's supposed to be Mammom's equal in terms of power and influence but I never got any indication that Ozzie ever used his position to help Fizz out. If Fizz would hate that, then no. His safety and well-being in this case should matter a shit ton more than his opinion

Oh, and there's the mute kid's parents or guardian, as well as those of any other kid who showed up to the contest in this episode. Considering that Fizz was in a provocative leotard and had cream pie splattered all over him, then why the fucking hell would children be allowed there? Sure, I may have liked the mute kid but I wouldn't want him at a clearly adult talent show. The youngest it should have been is teenage years

Yeah, sorry, I legit CANNOT believe this. Sins are supposed to be bad. Sins are supposed to hurt people whenever it strikes. All the bad shit in the world that people do, it's because of a fucking sin

And if you mean to tell me that sins are actually good things framed in a negative light, then someone tell me how Greed is a good thing. According to that logic, Greed is supposed to be a good thing just like the other sins. Because it can't be that Lust and Gluttony are good things that just get twisted to being seen as bad but then all of a sudden act like it's impossible to view Greed the same way

Moments of Stupidity 14

One more episode before I catch up so let's not waste anymore time

Oops -

First up, Fizzarolli when he came down to Greed with a limo, dick-shaped fireworks whatevers, and a pack of cumfly dogs to do a little show with. All the while still believing that he's out of the spotlight. Even without the shitshow that is the Crimson/Striker teamup (love the idea, just not the execution), Fizzarolli obviously would have been attacked and/or taken hostage and/or killed. All because Fizz couldn't be bothered to learn what the fuck 'low-key' means

Next is Blitzo, who had the fucking bright idea to buy coffee specifically in Greed. Did fucking Crimson, who you should know by now is in Greed, really means nothing to you? You apparently couldn't be bothered to check just where Crimson was so that you wouldn't bump into him?

Now Ozzie's got about three moments, starting with the one during his meeting with Stolas. So Ozzie gets a text video from Fizz and he's eager to open it. For some fucking reason, he doesn't send Stolas away and just opens the text video. If it was just a video in your phone, fine, but text videos in Helluva Boss apparently grow as big as a fucking flat-screen TV or whatever so it was in completely perfect view of Stolas. Why the fuck would Ozzie feel so comfortable just opening a text video from Fizz if he's supposed to keep up some kind of charade with him when Stolas is right there? Ozzie said everything he wanted to say so he should have sent him away. If it wasn't, then Ozzie should have gone somewhere private

The next moment was the fact that Ozzie wasn't at all willing to read the damn contract to save Fizzarolli. Because the contract apparently had been asking for signed permission to hurt Fizz, despite how Ozzie would have done to get him back. Fuck seriously, there's nothing wrong with wanting to protect your loved ones. How you protect them could be the fucking problem

The third moment of stupidity on Ozzie's part is that he never just goes down to fucking Greed and wreck havoc or even just send some team to rescue Fizz while he entertains the lawyer. For some fucking reason, he's completely entertaining this ransom and never even tries to hurt the lawyer until Fizz comes right in. (I'm not counting Stolas here because he apparently doesn't have a life if he's going to think that reading paperwork to help out a demon who denied him a crystal, isn't actually very close to, and has no other special reason to help is fun)

An incredibly stupid moment goes to Crimson, for goading the fucking sin of Lust of all demons. What the fuck does it matter if Lust is the weakest sin? It's still a goddamn sin! Sins still ruin people! And what does it matter if Ozzie's the weakest? He's a far more powerful demon than Crimson ever will be!

Quite an abundance of stupid moments go to Crimson's goons and to Crimson himself. And let's not forget Striker; the cowboy is just as guilty of being just as stupid as everyone else.

But first just the goons in general, when one goon decided to just fucking start shooting just because his. Then some goons at the pool table decide that they're just making annoying noise and not even look up to see what's going on until they're about to be run over by one of those

Then there's the part where all the goons just fucking watch Fizzarolli in his weird entirely-improvised show. Here's where Crimson and Striker are just as stupid, too. In fact, Fizzarolli and Blitzo say right in front of everyone about the whole 'steal dad's booze' plan and they still fucking fall for it

In fact, Fizzarolli and Blitzo are idiots for saying the plan right in front of their goddamn captors and they're only lucky that they're just as stupid as the hostages that the plan even fucking works

A stupid moment goes to the lawyer, who thought it was super important to get all his paper shit packed in a briefcase before hightailing the fuck out of there. It's thanks to that the lawyer took too long and was heavily implied to have gotten killed

Oh, and the final stupid moment goes to both Fizzarolli and Ozzie for killing the lawyer but not going after fucking Crimson, or at least make sure that Crimson's dead. Fuck seriously, the lawyer was never the fucking mastermind to this and what the fuck is stopping them from going after said mastermind? Fizzarolli knows exactly where he's been held hostage and knows exactly who held him hostage. Ozzie knows that second thing, too! And given Ozzie's position and money and influence, there's no reason he can't find Crimson to fucking END him. Sure, I would have liked Moxxie to have gotten a win over him but my desires don't change a damn thing about this moment of stupidity

Moments of Stupidity 13

Well, I guess I was misinformed or mistaken on when exactly the newest episode was gonna come out. Although I'm still making the post in early November and yeah, I'm certain the episode will still in this series of posts because, really, every single episode before it - excluding the pilot - have had stupid moments that progress the plot. If anything, the newest episode will be a shocker if it didn't have anything like that itself

Unhappy Campers -

Well... Moxxie's got a shit ton of stupid moments that pretty much carried at least a bulk of the plot so I should list them all before anyone else. So here goes

1) Moxxie made up pointless background stories for both himself and Millie. You two are on an assassination mission, not working as spies to gather information and shit. Even if you did need information, you didn't need to come up with too-complicated backstories for a simple hit

2) Moxxie completely ignores his wife's pointing out of the culprit. While he may have a point in that they shouldn't just assume shit, the culprit was so painfully fucking obvious that the guy should have been the first option they tried. Didn't Sherlock Holmes say in the book he comes from something about 'eliminating the obvious'? That means, by never investigating the most obvious thing about their case, it just makes Moxxie look even more inept at investigating if he covered all options except for the most obvious one

3) Moxxie just went up to a bunch of pre-teen girls, hijacked their conversation with bits of made-up info that just sounds so damn cringe as it goes on, and just expected that to work. It's like, even if he hadn't talked to a lot of teens before, especially while he was growing up, wouldn't he still see them around as he goes around town in any ring? Hear them talk? Could his upbringing really leave him so clueless that he would think that telling a bunch of teens who never met you before about periods would endear you to them? Even just spewing out stuff about yourself like it's trivia, does that really sound all that welcoming?

4) Moxxie decides to get so butthurt that a bunch of pre-teens don't like him that not only does he berate Millie for fitting in so effortlessly but also decides to care more about getting their approval than actually. Sure, throughout the week, he is watching through binoculars, no doubt trying to find the culprit, but he still lashed out at Millie because it still mattered more to him that he didn't get the kids' approval while his wife did. It was super damn obvious in the choice of words and how they were said so it was all so stupid, the kind of priorities Moxxie had. It never even occurred to Moxxie to use Millie's popularity to find answers. Seriously, if Moxxie couldn't get info, then why not Millie? Those kids would have told her anything she wanted to know

5) There was a little moment when Moxxie met up with Blitzo again. Blitzo says that he's trying to find his sister, kicks down the door, and yells out Barbie's name. Barbie yells Blitz's name back. Moxxie still asks is Blitzo knows her. And since there's fucking circus pictures of Blitzo and Barbie hung up in the office, then how the hell does Moxxie not have any inkling of Barbie's existence prior? Even without the pictures, and even though Barbie was disguised, the whole scene of Blitzo and Barbie meeting up with each other combined with Blitzo saying that he's looking for his sister makes it pretty damn obvious

Now a stupid moment that both Moxxie and Millie share together is that they don't try all that hard to keep up the charade that at least Moxxie thought was so important to maintain. It's even stupider for Moxxie because he's the one who made up the cover story that they're brother and sister. Yet Moxxie's complimenting Millie like he's attracted to her while they're on stage and still disguised as brother and sister. Then they fucking fuck on stage in front of cameras, because they decide that they're so horny that they simply shouldn't care where the fuck they are or who's watching to literally fuck around. Honestly, Blitzo might not even needed to try all that hard to watch Millie and Moxxie have sex since it's like that. No wonder Moxxie never found out until the episode Ozzie's that Blitzo has watched him and Millie do it a shit ton of times

Let's not leave Blitzo out of the equation, too. For the most part, he was a selfish jackass for creepily investigating the whereabouts of his sister who didn't want anything to do with him. The thing is, he apparently wanted to meet up with said sister so damn badly that he completely neglected a mission that came up. Blitzo had the fucking gall to chew Moxxie out for being so incompetent at this mission when it was thanks to Moxxie being incompetent that Blitzo even got to see his sister in the first place. Seriously, Blitzo might have just ran into a dead end or even gotten a hurt or dead sister because Moxxie had a braincell and didn't stop Millie from investigating the boathouse. Really, he's upset at Moxxie's ineptitude this episode but that's exactly what ended up doing him a solid this time. Besides, Blitzo also gave the mission to Moxxie to handle because he decided his company and the job a client came with didn't matter nearly as much as finding his sister so what place did Blitzo have to get on Moxxie's case for taking an entire damn week?

Even without all that, there's still the fact that Blitzo still acted like there was any remote chance in the end that Barbie was actually going to take him back. The asshole makes Barbie out to be the bitch for never contacting him, especially when she got of rehab - which is massively hypocritical given the fact that, in order to be shocked that Barbie checked out months ago, Blitzo had to go for that long without ever contacting his sister himself - accused Barbie of making Blitzo go through investigating and searching for her despite the fact it was entirely voluntary on his part, and never called off the hit that would leave Barbie without a job yet Blitzo still offered a chance to catch up like everything's going to be hunky-dory

Oh, and let's not forget a fucking huge-ass plot hole that makes Blitzo and also the rest of I.M.P. huge-ass idiots concerning the entire fucking premise of the series. At least, what was supposed to be the premise. I'm talking about the Asmodean Crystals. Apparently, those crystals are even better than the Grimoire in every possible way. Far more portable than the Grimoire, could easily avoid situations where you need to escape like in Truth Seekers because there'd be no spell to read or look at, and the crystals provide disguises that the Grimoire apparently doesn't - or maybe I.M.P. were too stupid to even think of trying and using spells from the book that would provide disguises. Yet no one in I.M.P. has a fucking crystal. No one even brings it up after Loona asked about disguises in Spring Broken. How the hell does anyone go for this long, almost halfway in season 2, without even thinking about getting a crystal? Millie might be one thing because she's someone living kind of isolated, at least not as crowded-looking as Pride or Greed seem to be, and she's never characterized as someone who goes out of her way to fixate on details. As long as things are fine, there's no need to think all that deeply. But what about Loona or Moxxie or Blitzo? Loona was the one who first brought up disguises so why the fuck wouldn't she also bring up the crystals at any point? She called the imps out for being so stupid to not have disguises, even if it was in worry for her own well-being, so why didn't Loona check with anyone about getting some damn crystals? Moxxie is the one most fixated on details and should have known about the different ways to go up to the surface. If not, he would have researched it; he seems like the type to do that. Blitzo is the one who's trying to start up his damn business. Even if he's a lazy ass who pushes his work onto others so that he doesn't have to do any heavy lifting for his company, you'd think that Blitzo would at least find some way to go up to the surface in the first place. He went to steal the Grimoire because he knew that was a way to do it. Did Blitzo really not look into more options than stealing a powerful book that a Geotia would definitely notice if it was missing? How the fuck did Blitzo think that mugging some cubi demons for their crystals would be too much work and/or be too dangerous than stealing the fucking Grimoire?

Moments of Stupidity 12

Okay, so I'm once again not including the childishly petty arguing between Stella and Stolas. It just felt stupid to watch but I don't think it was anything stupid that greatly affected the plot. If it actually makes a difference in the overall narrative, as shocking as it would be, but it at least didn't make much of a difference in this episode. In fact, the conversation itself is so inconsequential since the only thing that really mattered at the beginning was that Stolas was at that restaurant for Striker to swoop in and kidnap him. Andreaphlus, Stella, and Stolas highly likely could have been talking about anything else and that's how much difference it would make for the plot

Western Energy -

First moment goes to Stolas, for not using his fucking powers other than flying away only to get caught in holy rope. Maybe that can be excused by how pampered and sheltered Stolas is bound to be that he's unaccustomed to not react more appropriately to danger but there's something about the way I saw how he reacted that made me think 'dumb'.

But then there's Stolas's next moment, for taking so damn long to realize he's in fucking danger. Fuck seriously, shot at by an assassin, tied up in blessed rope, and being carried away on a horse like a cowboy's hostage. And it wasn't until Striker took the phone away, taunted Blitzo over the phone, and then smashed the fucking phone that it finally registers in Stolas's head. Just... moving on...

Third moment of stupidity on Stolas's part, never trying to escape himself. Sure, again, he could be so pampered and sheltered that he wouldn't have gotten far in helping himself, but that's just it. Stolas didn't even try. He never tried rolling off the horse, he never used his untied legs and hands to do anything, just. Fucking. Nothing. Instead, Stolas just looks bored as he rides the entire fucking way to Striker's hideout, even though he was never being held by Striker for most of the way. Maybe the explanation - not a justification - is that Stolas is still desiring to live out a fantastical romance novel with Blitzo that he's willingly the damsel in distress. Seriously, that could be the reason why Stolas called Blitzo as his first reaction towards being kidnapped, goes on and on about Blitzo the entire damn time he's being tortured, and even had Blitzo's name as his last word when Striker was about to cut his eyes out; Stolas only bothered speaking of Octavia when Striker directly threatened her but, otherwise, Blitzo was the only thing in his fucking-filled mind. But if I'm right in my guess on why Stolas never even tried to escape when he totally could have done something, then it's still stupid that he prioritized living out a fantasy with Blitzo in the knight-in-shining-armor role over actually helping himself and whether or not he gets to see Octavia again. Because yeah, I just realized that, if Stolas could get hurt or even die, then it will leave Octavia fatherless and alone with Stella. Either Octavia's future way of life and future anguish never registered in Stola's head or he decided it wasn't very important. Neither one makes Stolas look good

A small moment of stupidity Stolas has is shared with Blitzo and Moxxie, when Stolas was calling to ask for help about being kidnapped. Every single one of these fuckers act like it was tricky to remember fucking Striker. And maybe they did legit forget Striker of all people. Blitzo couldn't remember the guy who was going to kill off his 'easiest ticket to the human world behind his back'. Stolas couldn't remember the guy he declared a winner alongside Blitzo in the Pain Games; even the maybe explanation that Stolas didn't consider Striker so important to remember doesn't stop me from thinking it's stupid for the recognition to never kick in. And Moxxie was a little bit stupider because he chastises Blitzo with 'how many cowboys do you know?' but then immediately asks for Striker's description. How many cowboys do you fucking know, Moxxie?

Either the hospital Blitzo and Loona goes to or the nurse at the counter because what use is someone who doesn't know how to read and write when it comes to running the counter at a hospital? I'm happy for the nurse that she got a job despite that but she's incredibly lucky that something went wrong at that hiring process

The gang of cowboys for their reason for picking a fight. Seriously? Same hat? It's apparently made on a massive enough scale if Moxxie just so happened to have the same kind of hat just laying around in the I.M.P. van. The maybe explanation is that the cowboy gang just wanted to pick on a seemingly weak target (and Moxxie probably should have been physically weaker because it feels like he was only written to be strong badass because plenty of fans had enough of Moxxie being a damsel in distress even against his own damn father)

Stella... oh, boy, Stella. Like I said, this episode really highlighted her so obvious let's get to it. First, she was just so obvious that she sent the assassin after him that, if it wasn't for Stolas being so stupid to ever even tell anybody, Stella would be in fucking hot water. Maybe she was so confident that Stolas was going to die but that's a gamble right there. There is the part where Stella had it spelled out for her that she'll get nothing if Stolas were to die now but I like to view it differently. Stella could have known all along that Stolas hated her too much to willingly leave her anything. In fact, Stella probably only bothered talking about the divorce stuff so that it gives Striker the chance to come in and kidnap Stolas

The really stupid moment of Stella's is the fact she wanted Stolas to have the 'royal treatment', which is Striker torturing Stolas before finally killing him off. With no cameras recording it, with Stella not looking in through some magical object, with absolutely nothing that would provide Stella with a show. Considering that Stella is at least characterized to be a sadist, then how the fuck was she going to enjoy it? Was she just going to have Striker tell her all about it?

Of course, Striker had plenty of stupid moments throughout this episode, since he was so reckless that it became stupid. If anything, probably the only thing he didn't do was stupid was going along with provided the 'royal treatment' to Stolas. After all, it's what Stella paid for and it gave Striker the chance to let out his anger on a blue blood, so why not?

Anyways, 1) just barging into the restaurant, attacking Stolas, and carrying off with a Geotia as his very clear hostage with a shit ton of witnesses around 2) letting himself be seen so much that he legit has wanted posters on the walls; I just find it weird for a fucking assassin 3) waiting a minute or so into the fucking phone call Stolas was making before finally taking the phone away and crushing it. Fuck seriously, you waited that long before finally doing that? Even though you said that you can hear it? 4) Having a hideout that's well known enough for Millie to be able to find out about when she asked for directions. Again, weird for an assassin and 5) never holding onto Stolas to make sure he wouldn't try escaping like, say, rolling off of Bombproof. There was one instance, when Bombproof got up on his hind legs on the train, but that seemed more like part of the fun and the song than anything. Striker's just lucky that Stolas was too stupid to even try. I think I'll throw in a 6) since Striker got so easily disgusted at all the sex jokes. Not only is he supposed to be an assassin, he's also supposed to be an expert assassin. I would have expected someone like that to not be so easily fazed when carrying out a kill, to tablet the unexpected, and to be flexible and adaptable since I think his job is the kind of job where anything can and would go wrong. Instead, if Striker came after me, I can just make a sex joke and I'll have an window of opportunity to do something about him

Blitzo manages to cap off the episode with a small but still significant stupid moment. He acted shocked that Stolas could get hurt. What was the fucking point of season 1 episode 5 Harvest Moon Festival!?!?! Loo Loo Land was one thing since Stolas asked you and you only accepted at getting paid money. But then you fought off Striker so that he wouldn't kill Stolas! Why the fuck would you bother doing that if you just now realized that he could get hurt!?!?

Moments of Stupidity 11

Well, now we reached the episode that taught me that this show is full of morons and plots only happen because of that so this oughta be fun :)

Exes and Oohs -

So first stupid moment goes to Blitzo, for keeping pictures so obviously not safe for work at work. In fact, he kept them right in the damn filing cabinet. Seriously, you couldn't even keep them in a fucking safe like the one I know you have?

Next, both Blitzo and Millie were idiots for never suspecting that there's a damn reason Moxxie never talked about his past and doesn't want to be in Greed. Fuck seriously, Blitzo has been the one who never wants anyone prying into his past and that's because there's serious shit in that part of his life that makes him not want to talk about it. Well, Millie, Blitzo, you seriously couldn't figure that it's the same thing with Moxxie? In fact, Moxxie displayed apprehension and fear and discomfort pretty damn clearly when he found out he was going to Greed and even outright said that he sore to never come back. Yet you two still couldn't clue anything together? You were even made to sleep in separate rooms from each other, and that included the married couple!

Especially Millie, who's all 'why haven't I met your father before?' or 'you never told me any of this'. If anything, that was your biggest red flag that something was wrong, Millie. You have been married to Moxxie for at least a year and you knew shit about your husband's childhood, family, and the home where he grew up. I may not be married and never have been but I'm certain it's not normal for happily married couples who's been married for at least a year to know absolutely zilch about one another. Plus, how do you get married to Moxxie without ever wanting to learn more about him prior to the wedding? If your husband didn't want to talk about it, fine, but you're acting like this episode is the very first time this has ever even came up and it's like 'how did you never wonder about this before?' Even without that, it's still like, 'how did you never get curious about your husband during your marriage?' And to think, Millie had the damn nerve to say 'next time, just tell me your father is a psychopath'. Is it really that easy!?!? And was it really that hard for you to figure out!?

Moxxie was rather stupid, too. Yes, he shouldn't have to go through the forced marriage plan of Crimson's but I doubt it was all that smart for Moxxie to just go ahead and tell off his dad like no one was gonna do what Alessio did and tase him. Seriously, it looked like Moxxie thought he could just threaten his dad and call it a day. And earlier, even if he knew that his father's goons were watching him or were aware of his every move, Moxxie should have thought of some ways to deliver a damn message to somebody. Wasn't Moxxie supposed to trained in discrete mafia-stealth shit, especially since he was Crimson's only child and heir?

All of I.M.P. were morons for not murdering Crimson when they had the chance, since Crimson is a sociopathic control freak with a temper who would definitely think about getting revenge sometime in the future, as much as it takes forever for anything to return for an episode in Helluva Boss. It goes to Millie for the most part since she was right in front of Crimson but Blitzo should have done something, particularly when he was well enough to happily tell Crimson all about Chaz's scheme. And when he was being carried off, okay, he couldn't do anything at the time due to being tied up and gagged but maybe earlier when he was confronting his father. Because Moxxie should know what his father is capable of and is willing to do

Then Chaz. Oh, boy, Chaz. I liked him better than Blitzo but it probably goes to show that characters like Blitzo and Chaz are better stomached in small doses (which is probably the biggest reason I hate Blitzo. I'm stuck with him as the main fucking character!) Anyways, Chaz has a damn list as to why and how he's an idiot so let's get to listing

the fact he just told Crimson that he's rich, fully expected to be able to marry Moxxie and live happily ever after with him, and never even thought of an escape plan for the inevitable scenario of Crimson finding out the truth. Because yeah, even if Blitzo never spilled the beans about Chaz's plan, Crimson was fully expecting the cash to come in at some point. Crimson was going to demand it sooner or later so it was so damn stupid that Chaz never thought of anything on what to do about that problem

In fact, going off on that last thing, Chaz had a little list of his plan, and he legit had question marks on the second to last number, which goes to show how well thought out the plan was (At least Charlie made a full list with each step filled out, as nonsensical as it was) And Chaz's list was in his fucking car, with other pieces of evidence that he was flat broke. You seriously thought no one would think first to investigate your car?

Chaz never tried gunning it when Millie was massacring Crimson's gang and he even felt the need to protest when Millie was carrying Moxxie away. You seriously couldn't tell how fucking obvious it was you weren't going to win?

And while this is unrelated to his plan, there's the fact that Chaz very clearly thinks with his head down below than the head up top, as evidenced of him trying to have sex with everyone and anyone he could. Moxxie being up first, sure, I get that. Moxxie's the one Chaz is trying to marry. But then Chaz goes to fucking Millie, like she hasn't tried killing him before dinner and hasn't pointed a damn knife at him during dinner. Honestly, Chaz is only lucky that Blitzo was selfish enough to accept it upon hearing the right words

Now, as stated above, Chaz is an idiot. That much is obvious even in the single episode that he lasted. However, it felt like to me that Chaz is supposed to be an idiot so it doesn't feel all that surprising when he does stupid shit. But I think the one who's even stupider than Chaz is Crimson. While Chaz was the one who provided the plot on a silver platter, it was Crimson who ultimately decided to take it from said platter, which is how we even got the episode in the first place. (In-universe, I mean)

Crimson started off the whole damn plot because he never checked for himself if Chaz actually was rich. Crimson just took it at complete face value and spent his money to send a couple of his goons to pick up I.MP. via helicopter, still has a shit ton of goons outside of that, installed so many damn dildos in his fucking mansion and on the chairs for the outdoor wedding, and had a wedding helicopter or whatever set up. Crimson became even more broke than before - although he looked pretty damn well-off to me despite that - and it was all because he didn't do a single background check at any point of time. Fuck seriously, Blitzo found out in more or less twenty minutes so it should have been a cinch for Crimson to do with all his manpower and money. Really, the only worthwhile thing that came from it is my personal idea that Crimson was so pissed at himself for falling for the poorly thought-out con that came from a sheer idiot like Chaz; that got a chuckle out of me. But that worthwhile thing is a little thing so it didn't erase the fact that Crimson was a colossal idiot ensuring that this episode even happened

Oh, and let's not forget how Crimson just stood around at the altar and screamed at his goons to take care of Millie. At the end of the slaughter was one thing but that was only because most of his gang got fucking killed by then. What about before then? Crimson really couldn't have done something during that massacre? Isn't he supposed to be a mob boss? In fact, since the slaughter happened partially because he fucking invited as much of I.M.P. as he could, that means Crimson's scheme to lure them all in was stupid. Crimson could have just planned instead to kidnap Moxxie in a way that left no trace. It's not like Millie or Blitz would be smart enough to figure out a trail and the only reason they would be able to find Moxxie is if the people around them were idiots in just the right way

Moments of Stupidity 10

Okay, so I'm not getting into Stolas's childish behavior with Stella at the beginning because that's more fueled by selfishness than by stupidity. And while I may not know what the fuck to make out of Loona this episode but any stupidity from that was once again from the writing than anything else

Seeing Stars -

I guess first instance of stupidity goes to I.M.P. when Octavia snuck into. Loona's one thing, since she clearly chose not to say anything about Octavia's presence but three fucking assassins really couldn't detect the arrival of a teenage girl into their office? Because I'm thinking that assassins would eventually be honed to keep aware of their surroundings at all times, even if they're not thinking about it (if I'm wrong, go ahead and correct me) Even if Octavia was being as stealthy as she could, I would have expected for alertness from goddamn assassins. I'd also say install but I guess that can be excused for that not being in the budget

Up next is the fact that Blitzo had such a simple, easy code that Octavia was able to crack it on her first fucking try. What's worse, reading on TVtropes revealed to me that 1234 is a default code in every safe when you first get one. So Blitzo never fucking bothered to change the damn default code

Also, something for Octavia for just sneaking into the office and stealing the book the way she did. First off, how was she able to get to I.M.P. headquarters? There should have been a shit ton of people who at least tried preying on her in some shape or form. Even if Octavia never made some official public debut or something - which could be why people didn't try kidnapping her even once, let alone as often as they did Stolas - she's still a teenage girl wandering alone in crime-ridden city. That alone opens so many shifty doors to be ever be comfortable with. And she very clearly made a lucky guess that the default code never changed on Blitzo's safe, because I would never think anyone would be so fucking lazy and/or stupid to never change it when they get a safe. This is only even remotely forgivable for Octavia in the sense that she's a teenager running on emotions. It's not like anyone ever thinks things through when they're at that age, especially when being emotional

Once again, Stolas gets multiple instances, so I gotta number them. Starting with 1) he got stupidly hypocritical again, what with chewing out I.M.P., mostly Blitzo, about leaving the Grimoire laying around. Just like in Truth Seekers, you fucking asshat in a stupid crowned tophat, you're the one who gave Blitzo of all demons the Grimoire. Just to get railed every full moon. If you're going to care so damn much about getting in trouble - which still hasn't mattered yet, by the way - then don't do it in the first place. Not to mention, who are you to lecture anyone about losing track of important shit when you're the one who only found out Octavia was missing when you were told that?

2) not using any of his spells to find Octavia. There's already the bubbles spell that Stolas clearly used in Murder Family and probably in Truth Seekers. And if Stolas was fully clothed and not wet from the bath in the latter episode I said here because he was actually spying on Blitzo some other way, then Stolas can just use that. And given how Stolas entered the human world without the Grimoire in Truth Seekers, there was plenty he could have done without it in this episode. At most, Stolas just needed to go back home to do it before going straight to Octavia

3) the whole thing about not providing disguises for the imps. What the fuck you mean you can't remember how to do the damn spell for the disguises? Yeah, Stolas said that his powers are limited without the Grimoire but then Stolas and Blitzo treated good or bad memory as more important of a reason to not provide disguises than actually having the Grimoire. So much for the 'good memory' that you gloated about in The Circus, huh, Stolas? Besides, you'd think that, for your position, knowing the spells in your book would be as important to ingrain into your mind as phone numbers to call people with. And with instance 2 of Stolas's stupid moments, that just makes the excuse being limited without the grimoire even stupider, since Stolas would just be able to use the damn bubbles spell in his fucking bathtub or whatever else he might have used in Truth Seekers

4) never departing with Blitzo when it's obvious he's too held up performing for a sitcom so that he can look for his daughter. Fuck seriously, Stolas may have said that he's Blitzo's manager and all but I'm thinking the actor is far more important for the show than the manager. At least to the extent where no guards or staff will really care if Stolas leaves while Blitzo is still on stage. Yet he never left, not until the building was burning down to the ground

Okay, so now onto I.M.P. because they were plenty stupid, too; not detecting Octavia despite being assassins isn't all to it. First up, Moxxie for getting sidetracked with all the indie artist shit and Millie for not trying harder to do anything about it. Seriously, Millie got frustrated with it but she's at fault for the big bag of shit that Moxxie had as Moxxie himself is. Not to mention, if she didn't try all that hard to stop Moxxie's insistence on buying artist's merch and even joining in on the song and also asking Blitzo over texts about bondage shit that Moxxie might like, then that probably means she never cared all that much on finding Octavia. So why did she bother getting upset?

And next up, Blitzo, Loona, and also Stolas now that I realize it, for never noticing the big ass board of Brennon Ragers that was right above the costume store. Since this episode decides half-heartedly that disguises matter so you'd think they wouldn't pick a famous celebrity for Blitzo's disguise if they really wanted to blend in. And yeah, it only matters halfway concerning disguises because of the humans' own stupidity made it that Blitzo really could have just stayed as himself so even just getting a disguise from a costume shop was a stupid waste of time and it only really contributed to the plot via Blitzo getting confused for a celebrity

And as for the humans, explaining more of the paragraph above, they decided that Octavia, Millie, and Moxxie were just in costume. The worst reaction was Octavia getting strange looks. So again, Blitzo really could have stayed as himself and just getting him a disguise from a costume shop was stupid all on its own. Also, we never got even a throwaway line as to why the imps don't have disguises at their convenience, just like in Truth Seekers. And neither Stolas and Loona brought it up or did anything about it until after they got to the human world

Finally, I suppose Octavia again for posting pictures of herself in the human world and posting it on her social media. There were episodes that made it important to keep up a masquerade so why would Octavia just do this. Again, I'm thinking that teens do have enough awareness to not blatantly do shit like this that could get them in trouble. If anything, that's easily a whole teen sthick, doing things they're not supposed to discretely. That way, teens can continue breaking rules and get that rush knowing that the parents or guardians they're interacting with are clueless about the rebellion. At least, that's what I thought teens would like. At the very least, they don't want to get in trouble for breaking the rules so that there's already a reason for teens to want to do shit they're not supposed to discretely. And if Octavia genuinely doesn't know about a masquerade that needs to be kept, then that's a stupid moment for not just her, but also her parents. They're supposed to be teaching Octavia shit but they didn't even bother with the biggest and most basic rules

Moments of Stupidity 9

So yeah, I decided that, rather than restarting the numbers or something for each season, I'll just add all of them up. So, for example, the first episode of season 2 makes post number 9 for Moments of Stupidity. Anyways, let's get started on this one because this episode adds more to pre-existing instances of sheer dumb. And I mean in the plot or overall narrative because the writing decisions do indeed get dumber

The Circus -

First up is Paimon, in his delivery over giving Stolas the news of his arranged marriage. Seriously, why show that picture of Stella? Was it really the best picture they could get? And why the hell did Paimon think throwing 'bitch' in 'stop crying' was any better since he was saying that to a distraught child? Really, this instance might be more forgivable if it's ever been established that Paimon actually doesn't spend a lot of time with his kids or just kids in general. Then again, it would bring into question he bothers with having children, particularly so many that he can't keep track of their names

Next up is the decision for kid Stolas to be accompanied with just the butler. Seriously, even if Stolas has never made a debut or anything, he very fucking clearly isn't part of the common masses. What the fuck was the security plan for that outing? If anything, they were just lucky no one tried any mugging or kidnapping shit

Okay, so, Stolas... when he's a kid... while children as a whole aren't actually stupid - stupidity is more of an individualistic thing than anything - but children as a whole are vulnerable to doing stupid things or not catching onto things that an older person could and would. But here, Stolas never picks up on the fact that the things in his house are being stolen. Even if Stolas is abnormally lonely and doesn't know how things works when it comes to socializing, you'd think he'd eventually notice that his shit was being stolen. Especially when kid Blitzo made it a thing to steal everything

Buckzo was rather dumb, too, because he had his son steal shit from the Geotias. Unless they're a traveling circus, it would be dangerous for him to stay in one spot for Paimon to go back to so that he could get revenge for all the expensive shit being stolen. Especially since Paimon at least has seen Buckzo's face and should recognize him. It wouldn't be hard to put two and two together that everything was stolen after the playdate that Buckzo made his son go to. Not that we ever find out if Paimon found out but, regardless, Buckzo is just lucky that he likely never got caught (although I'm sure he was planning on throwing Blitzo under the bus if the need came up). Paimon also probably was racist enough against imps to think they all look the same so Buckzo got lucky there, too, if that's the case

Then Stella. As much as people are saying that Stella was made into an idiot in Western Energy, this episode is where I think she starts getting stupid. Western Energy just merely emphasized it. A vast majority of people have pointed it out arleady but her motivations don't make any damn sense. As a result, it's stupid for her to be pissed over Stolas having the affair if she's truly never loved him. In fact, the woman had all her dialogue be all about how she hates being bother getting made over the affair and Stella bother getting made over the affair and be against the divorce when Stolas brought it up. Like, you should be fucking happy over getting the divorce, not idiotically against it. Actually, you should have tried getting a divorce for yourself! There was no explanation as to why Stella never tried divorcing Stolas, either, like if the Geotia was old fashioned and so denied women the power to divorce. Why the fuck not? They're already so old-fashioned to do arranged marriages so denying Stella the right to divorce because of her gender wouldn't be too out of left field

Oh, and speaking of that, now that we're back to adult Stolas, he gets several moments of stupid. Three in the flashback and two outside it. First, Stolas is a moron for getting fucking ahead of himself when seeing Blitzo again. Viv may have said - for whatever that information is worth - that Stolas can't tell apart fiction from reality but who the fuck just goes straight to 'someone I had one playdate with over 20 years ago and never had any contact with whatsoever has come back to ravish me!'? Seriously, who makes that leap of logic!? Then that damn owl instantly shrinks back when Blitzo starts flirting with him. Seriously, Stolas, you were the one who started this flirtatious shit so why the fuck are you getting cold feet at the fantasy seemingly actually happening?

Second, the gloating of a good memory. Even though Stolas has said that he doesn't know Blitzo's name but then asked if there was an 'o' in his name. Like fuck, if your memory is shit, then don't gloat about it. It'll be noticeable!

Third, after Blitzo and Stolas had sex and Stella found out, Stolas rubs it in Stella's face. Right in front of some friends that she had over for mealtime. Sure, those friends could have just been friends in the loosest definition but still some people Stella felt comfortable enough to invite to eat over in her home. What's more, they could spread rumors. There's no reason why they wouldn't and nothing should be stopping them. So Stolas was even stupider at Ozzie's for caring that he's caught being out with Blitzo when he happily, gleefully gloated that he had an affair in front of others. It may not be the same size of a crowd compared to Ozzie's but it doesn't take away any of this stupidity

Out of the flashback, for Stolas's second to last stupid moment, it was going on in his song that Blitzo led him on and he was the fool for believing the advances. No. Blitzo was a selfish douche but he was still aware of what he was doing. Here, Stolas has apparently been blind and oblivious to how he's at fault, too. He's legit acting like he never forced Blitzo to make that deal in Murder Family. Like he never constantly acted with lustful desire and only lustful desire towards Blitzo. Like he wasn't holding the Grimoire over Blitzo's head to keep up the transactional fucking. And if Stolas genuinely believes that he never did anything to be at fault, then he's being stupid, not just selfishly selective in what to admit. And given how Stolas probably can't tell apart fiction from reality, it does make it possible for Stolas to be stupid that way

For Stolas's very last stupid moment, Stella approached Stolas, berated him, Stolas declares that the divorce is gonna happen, and Stella threatens him with 'what will the rest of the family think' as well as bringing up her brother's name. Now the stupid moment is also something I don't understand, especially when I watched a video of HezuNeutral bringing it up, is why Stolas says that he doesn't care what Andreaphlus thinks. What I mean by that is, Stolas has a purpose to the family beyond providing a heir while Stella is just an incubator and that it's usually women who get in trouble concerning political marriages, which are the points HezuNeutral brought up. Maybe Stella knew this and is trying to rely on Stolas being too stupid to realize that by bringing up that he'll be the one in trouble and not her, although that'd be giving too much credit to the writing. Stella's intimidation tactic doesn't work but Stolas reacts like he really believes it. At the very least, he doesn't deny that he would get in trouble for having a divorce. It's like, are you really blind how much more important to your family you are compared to Stella? How could you not know?

Finally, there's Blitzo in the flashback, as an adult, and he gets three moments himself. 1) getting the idea of stealing the fucking Grimoire from Stolas. Like the first episode showed, it's a valuable and powerful artifact - despite how we almost never see it used for anything. The only exception is Harvest Moon Festival - that will be missed if it's stolen. Yet Blitzo still tried stealing it anyway. Then there's how he tried stealing it. He went ahead and seduced Stolas, complete with biting his neck, and fully planned to just leave Stolas tied to the bedposts while taking the book. You seriously never expected an angry Geotia going after you if you left him like that? What's more, Stolas saw your face. He knows your name. It would be so damn easy for Stolas to find you

2) at the beginning when Blitzo was trying to break into the palace, he actually tried to get Stolas's attention from the window upon seeing him. How in the fuck were you going to explain to someone in the palace, who highly likely is demonic royalty, that you were outside the fucking window and on no doubt private property of demonic royalty? What explanation did you think you had that wouldn't get you in trouble?

3) Blitzo actually tried killing Stolas via neck twist. Maybe Blitzo somehow doesn't know about owls but why the fuck would he feel comfortable just trying to kill off just anyone who's distinctly not an imp or a hellhound? Wouldn't be important to note that maybe he's different from the common masses just by looking at him? If Blitzo doesn't know he's a prince, then why the fuck did he not research this much? Because you shouldn't just be able to kill off royalty and expect to move on with your life. People would notice! Maybe it wouldn't be as big of a deal since Octavia was born as insurance for the family line but someone will still fucking notice. There's gotta still be a reaction, too. Just something!

And now that I think about it, this mistake of Blitzo either stealing the Grimoire or attempting to kill Stolas has put Loona in danger. Seriously, if Blitzo really got in trouble with high-ranking demons, they could have easily wanted to go after his daughter while they were busy with him, should they find out. Even without that, Loona would have been left on her. Yeah, she's an adult woman, but having to take care of yourself after having spent at least some years with at least one person doing it for you, that's bound to be a tough thing for anyone to go through no matter how old they are. And Blitzo would make that happen to Loona should anything happen to him during this really fucking stupid quest in getting the Grimoire. Fuck seriously, even if he doesn't give a fuck about himself as long s plans through, or give a fuck about thinking his plans through, why couldn't he thought about how the consequences of his actions could and would affect Loona?

(Okay, so if Blitzo does wrong by his daughter, it's either because he's stupid and reckless or overprotective. Well, at least it's better than when Stolas does wrong by Octavia because he prioritizes his own shit first and foremost)

Moments of Stupidity 8

Now that I did this post, I wanna put here that I don't think I have a lot of stupid things of this episode because a good chunk of what I thought was dumb was the writers' doing than the characters' doing. What I mean by that is, for example, I find it dumb that Vortex and Bee get to be openly dating when the episode right before it - not in uploading order or whatever - has it be a bad thing for Stolas and Blitzo to do it so openly. Yet that stupidity is more on the writing than anything, it feels like, and I'm just here to call out the characters for doing stupid things that directly affect the plot or at least would have some bearing on it. And of course, Bee and Vortex not even trying to hide the fact that they're a couple doesn't matter in both the episode that revealed it but also the overall show by far. If it ever does matter, then I'll be sure to include it in a post that's about an episode where it actually matters

(And sorry if I offended anyone by saying that anything dumb was of the writers' doing. I just can't agree with the writing or think of it as clever, especially if you were to look at Helluva Boss's overall narrative)

(Oh, and another thing about the writing that doesn't make sense to me, since I'm on this, is that the sin of Gluttony wants Blitzo to be reigned in because he's overdoing shit. TVtropes may have said that Blitzo was more indulging in pride to forget than gluttony but it's probably ridiculous if I really have to go to TVtropes to make more sense of things. Plus, TVtropes probably still doesn't make sense, on what it said about Blitzo indulging in pride. If anything wants to tell me more on that or talk to me about it, then please do)

Queen Bee -

We start off with Loona trying to make small talk with one of the girls there being someone she should recognize is a metaphorical bitch. The other two girls didn't talk so there's no telling with them but at least the poodle is definitely someone who has had encounters with Loona before. Seriously, the 'lunatic Loona' nickname and the picture of Loona puking in her phone? And if I remember right, Loona even asks why she still has that, meaning that Loona is aware that the poodle took that picture before. So why couldn't have Loona tried making small talk with literally anyone else?

Next is Loona again, when she decides to start shit with a fucking sin and doesn't back down. Fuck seriously, she's supposed to be in her early twenties yet she's acting like a reckless teen. Actually, I'd like to think that, even if Loona was an actual teenager, she would still be smart enough to be aware that she's got no chance against a powerful figure like an embodiment of sin and so she shouldn't be treating someone like that like she does with anyone else. And regardless of her actual age, Loona grew up in the fucking pound in Hell where people would do shit to her and she should have always been in a position where she had to survive however she can, at least throughout her childhood. Doesn't that kind of survival situation lasting for as long as it did supposed to teach you to pick your goddamn battles? Unless there's something to that lifestyle that I don't know about, I just don't get why Loona would act like this. To think, Loona only backs down because it made Vortex upset, too