you are not mad you don't know what happened to those side characters, you are mad you spent so much time watching them in the place of every other main character only for their absence to be utterly inconsequential and their role to be quickly replaced by more of the same
my hot take is that having answers to what happened to these characters wouldn't have fixed anything, they are simply the symptom of the much larger problem that people actually have an issue with
all big risks hinge on other people, quick thinking comes from other people, and even when things go wrong, there's no consequence. which only makes you question more why the main characters weren't the ones taking the risks in the first place.
supernatural where everything is the same except in the end they make jack in the image of sam and dean
the most powerful hunter in the world is a girl born with the grace of the first angel who rebelled and the face of the two humans who defied destiny and she kills god
rewatching supernatural with my girlfriend and i can't believe they never did a spin-off set in the 1950's following the men of letters as they try to collect information on the supernatural and develop practices to handle them
@ughfinewhatever there's an author on tiktok who kept hyping up her book so i read the sample on amazon and it was plagued by this exact issue. calling tears irresistible where she meant unstoppable, and sentences like "if only i could obey my code like my sister inherently rarely feared"
Obviously the message this sends to immigrants who are trying to play by the rules and show up for checkins and for hearings is that they should not do that any more, that they should hide instead. It encourages less respect for our immigration system, not more.
but i also think we owe it to each other to be more precise with what we're critiquing when it comes to female characters because of HOW quickly and easily the critique becomes misogynistic
i think it's good to acknowledge that lenore dove definitely plays into some manic pixie tropes and that the personality can understandably feel off putting
and also acknowledge that there's way more misogynistic vitriol for female characters who fall into tropes than male
i just think this is one of those like, idk man sometimes it just depends
i don't think it's entirely problematic to dislike a personality type that's historically been used as a misogynistic stock character, even if improvements are made towards the problem areas