It's Never Easy
Dec. 6th, 2020 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyThursday was a crazy day for our family for reasons I'm still not inclined to talk about here. Suffice to say that by the time I sat down to >Critical Role that evening, it felt like it whatever happened in that episode would be a lot less important in the grand scheme of things. And it is. But even so, I had to watch the sinking of the first ship in this show I ever got attached to, one I had even managed to get more invested in recently despite being pretty damn sure it wasn't going to be in cards. I've had to spend the days since letting go, even restricting my movement on social media and staying off Discord, because I don't want to turn bitter over this one, and there was too much chance I could've if I read too much of the wrong thing.
It could've been much worse. I've survived what was likely deliberate torpedoing of ships by a spiteful producer(he even spoke of "surprising" the fans; he knew what he was doing), though at least I'd had the sense to stop watching anyway by then. More recently, I watched one of my favorite ships, built up for in previous movies, be tossed aside for Joss Whedon's ego, even as his writing did one of the two characters significant damage. Honestly, if I wasn't so stuck on Widojest, I probably would be greatly enjoying this whole Fjord/Jester thing. It's being done in a way that respects both characters and their emotional evolution, I imagine it'll even contribute to that, and noone can deny the adorability that's come along with it, both within and outside the actual story. I may well get on board completely, with time.
But right now? It still hurts. And it's going to hurt even more in episodes to come, watching Caleb suffer. (Unless he can perhaps move on to Essek, but face it, the latter definitely needs to show signs of redeeming himself first.) There's a reason I've always hated love triangles, even ones that make sense emotionally.
(I might also go for an OT3, but there's no way that's happening in canon, if only because if Travis reacts like that just to romancing his wife's character, he could not be comfortable with something far more complicated than that.)
Also could Beau and Yasha please just kiss already? That will probably make all of us way happier. I know I'd feel way better if I at least got one of my ships.
It could've been much worse. I've survived what was likely deliberate torpedoing of ships by a spiteful producer(he even spoke of "surprising" the fans; he knew what he was doing), though at least I'd had the sense to stop watching anyway by then. More recently, I watched one of my favorite ships, built up for in previous movies, be tossed aside for Joss Whedon's ego, even as his writing did one of the two characters significant damage. Honestly, if I wasn't so stuck on Widojest, I probably would be greatly enjoying this whole Fjord/Jester thing. It's being done in a way that respects both characters and their emotional evolution, I imagine it'll even contribute to that, and noone can deny the adorability that's come along with it, both within and outside the actual story. I may well get on board completely, with time.
But right now? It still hurts. And it's going to hurt even more in episodes to come, watching Caleb suffer. (Unless he can perhaps move on to Essek, but face it, the latter definitely needs to show signs of redeeming himself first.) There's a reason I've always hated love triangles, even ones that make sense emotionally.
(I might also go for an OT3, but there's no way that's happening in canon, if only because if Travis reacts like that just to romancing his wife's character, he could not be comfortable with something far more complicated than that.)
Also could Beau and Yasha please just kiss already? That will probably make all of us way happier. I know I'd feel way better if I at least got one of my ships.
