That face when a random person with a piano keys pfp pushes their way into your instagram live comment section and asks you terrible terrible questions about your faith
One grievance I have with the newer seasons of malevolent expands on the idea that John is just a narrator now, and it’s that jarthur divorces don’t matter anymore. They don’t affect the plot anymore. John having control of Arthur’s body doesn’t matter anymore. Jarthur sharing a body literally forced them to cooperate and when they failed to cooperate, there were consequences. My grievance is that there are no consequences anymore.
I miss so bad in earlier seasons when jarthur divorces would literally dictate what happened in the show. I miss when John gave Arthur the silent treatment in part 9, I miss when half the reason they got captured in part 18 was because they were fighting. I miss when their disagreements impacted what happened in the story. I miss when they actually payed for their missteps instead of just moving on within five minutes.
Not just the divorces but also parts when John’s autonomy is relevant, because it gives us very important hints about his character. John quite literally single handedly drags Arthur’s unconscious body to the side of the road in part 4 to get him help, and sews Arthur’s wound, again, with one hand, in part 28. And in part 24 Arthur insists on shaking John’s hand because he simply misses his friend, and he misses John’s hand too even though that same hand caused him so much harm. It’s much bigger than just a handshake. All these scenes help the listener understand the lengths John would go to for Arthur and how much he adores him, his care for humanity.
At the same time, John takes advantage of Arthur’s blindness in part 37 because he thought getting rid of Oscar was an easy fix to everything he was feeling. It shows the listener that John is still learning, and in the same way a child throws away his bad report card, he does things that he sees as an easy solution to his problems even if they would ultimately cause more harm. He jumps at the chance to get rid of what he sees as a threat because of the tantalizing notion that Arthur would never find out.
The simple fact that John has Arthur’s hand and eyes is so incredibly important to the plot and it literally is never mentioned anymore. Other than technical stuff like climbing the hair rope and such. The only meaningful scene I can think of is John agreeing to hold Oscar’s letter and reading it for Arthur (and kinda when John plays a part in convincing Arthur to kill the guy burying them but that was the dark world talking).
HASHTAG BRING BACK NARRATIVELY SIGNIFICANT JARTHUR DIVORCES HASHTAG BRING BACK JOHNS HAND
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