☆星と一緒に歌うよ☆

Yesterday I watched the HH season finale and I actually loved it. I understand why people are complaining about the "care bear" resolution at the end, but while it was rather silly, I honestly don't care. Like I said in a previous post, the whole premise of the show and its lore are so shaky, it's better not to think too much about the workings of the world in the show, because then everything starts falling apart.

What this season did really well was to sell Vox as a villain. I hated him. Mostly for humiliating Alastor, but he's really such an asshole and I couldn't wait to see his plan foiled (and Alastor come out on top). The scene where Alastor breaks his chains and then taunts him was thus so satisfying to watch.

Val is also horrible. They tried to give him some depth, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a horrible person. Which yeah, he's a demon, an overlord even, so it doesn't bother me.

My favourites this seasons were - after Alastor, who is still my favourite despite not getting enough attention this season: Nifty, Emily, and Abel. The last two surprised me myself because I'm usually someone who prefers the bad guys. They're funny though. Poor Abel, he's such a wuss, I feel sorry for him. The drama about the scene with him and the other angels coming to hell with gift baskets is ridiculous though. People really went out of their way to interpret their motivation in the least favourable way as possible. "They thought gift baskets are enough to make hell forget about the genocide." Well, duh - of course it's a dumb idea, but a) they weren't actually demanding to be forgiven and b) have these people considered that the angels could just be really, really naive? I mean, most of them didn't even know about the exterminations, and since heaven is the place for the "winners", they're probably not used to dealing with any kind of conflict at all. Because, you know, heaven is super peaceful and everyone loves each other. That obviously doesn't include Adam, Lute and the other exterminators, but just look at Emily, Abel, even St. Peter and tell me they're bad guys who derive pleasure from killing sinners?!

It's the same with people crying about Vox, a white guy, being mean to Alastor, a black guy. Hello?! Apart from the fact that Alastor was a serial killer in his former life ("But he only killed racists" - Shut up, that's just a headcanon you made up, and taking a human life is still worse than being a bigot [not exusing being a bigot, but there definitely is a ranking of crimes]), their skin colour in their past life has nothing to do with their actions in hell.

Worst was the reaction of Alastor yumes to the scene where Emily rescues him though. When I read the posts I was expecting something much worse, but Emily had been saving so many sinners and just so happened to save Alastor too. How does that make them a ship? Now, I know about that leak for the show's ending, but imo that's VERY unlikely. I'd find it an interesting development though, but now way Vivzie would go through with this. She must know that this would utterly break the fandom.

I would love to read about Alastor and Emily though. Not as a ship, I want Alastor to remain asexual, but in a gen fic of naive Emily trying to befriend him for some reason and the other and how it would go from there.

Anyway, great finale, I'm looking forward to more. Apparently it's going to be another year and ten months of a wait, so I'll have to be patient. I do hope we'll get so see more of Abel in Season 3 though.


PS: Genshin livestream later today, woohoo! Durin, my boy! Soon you'll come home!