#daa miriam

[bloodraven55]

They really said this is a gays only event 🏳️‍🌈

[copdog1234]

Its such an interesting choice for DAA to make the main character and former slave POC and queer, her slaver a White Man that doesn't understand that she doesnt belong to him and cant take "no" for an answer, and her problematic love interest a White Woman who agrees that there's things wrong with the system that has oppressed the main character, but is very much absolutely willing to bargain the main character's freedom to meet her own ends.

[pinkpinkboota]

😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[snowy-sims]

Why Rezaren’s portrayal was a waste of potential imo

I'm not saying he deserved any better, but the way he just immediately became a mustache-twirling villain killed any nuance or discussion that could've been had about the real evil at the root of his behavior: the way slavery, power abuse, and systemic inequality are accepted as the natural order to things in Tevinter society.

Historically speaking, few slave owners likely considered themselves evil. Putting aside the people responsible for large-scale atrocities, those who passively participated in the system and had grown up with it - like Rezaren - simply accepted it as a way of life. Many might have even considered themselves benevolent by virtue of not "mistreating" their slaves, or considering their slaves as "part of the family" - ignoring the massive incongruity of how the slaves are always at the mercy of their owners and are never treated as equals.

The same incongruity is evident in the set-up of Rezaren's relationship with Miri and Neb. "We were raised as siblings," he says in the same breath as he admits his mother owned them. He reminisces about their "happy" childhood, but conveniently glosses over the abuse they faced or how Miri would again be completely at his mercy to control or dispose of as he wishes if she "returned home".

IMO, I think it would've been way more interesting if he had been forced to tackle this incongruity. By pushing him to realize that as much as he misses Neb and Miri, the two are still objects to him more than real family, he could've had a crisis of faith for his world-views. If they wanted to keep him a villain, he could still choose to be wilfully ignorant and stick to his ways, refusing to admit that he was wrong and thinking he knows what's better for them as their master. We see bits of this in his confrontation with Miri in ep 4, but it's glossed over in favor of painting Rezaren as your typical callous and power-hungry magister instead.

I think that in turn kind of oversimplifies the whole narrative theme of how evil slavery is. Slavery isn't just evil because all slave owners are villainous sociopaths who think of people as tools by default, but because it's a system that facilitates and promotes such behavior in every level of the society in which it exists. By pinning it on a single individual character's moral compass, we ignore that the real evil is how terrifyingly easy it is for anybody born to Rezaren's amount of privilege to do the same without ever questioning how messed up that is. How normalized dehumanization and oppression become as part of everyday life, and how difficult it is to challenge those benefiting from it to see what they do as evil.

Idk, I'm likely overthinking this given the length and the budget of the show, but I just thought it had such potential when they first presented us with how he sees Miri as a sister, only to more or less trash the implications of it within half an episode. I think it would've been more compelling if they had just stuck to Rezaren wanting the circulum to revive Neb and have his "family" back rather than weave it into his ambitions.

The narrative primarily signals "Rezaren is evil, that's why he's a slave owner" after the Divine reveal, when we could have focused on "Rezaren wants to stay a slave owner even after knowing how it harms the people he claims to love, and that makes him evil" -- the latter which could've been a far more powerful commentary on how awful slavery is, at least in my view.

[scarlethoodi]

Sometimes I feel like there can be too many twist in story and by the end it just doesn’t land and kinda sours my mood. So watching Dragon Age Absolution with no other context to the media (and not really caring to either) the twist of Fairbanks attacking Hira brought a nice change of pace to the show. The reveal that Neb was Miriam’s dead brother combined with how he died/how she killed him. Rezeran being all like “sister I miss you but anyways here’s how you can still be my slave”. All of that was fine- good, nicely written but the whole twist of Hira going from “Miriam I missed you” > we’ll live on a farm together > I love her, she loves me to the reveal that she was planning to send her back into “temporary” slavery caused she’d come back for her or whatever just felt like a kick to the gut. And idk maybe it just didn’t sit right with me cause I wanted a character like Miriam to have a happy ending after everything and the drop was so unseen but then again all good twist are and you know always gotta drop hints for what’s next but yeah that’s just what the ending has me thinking

[bloodraven55]

YASSSSSSS 🙌

[bloodraven55]

Istg if they don’t get a happy ending I’m gonna throw hands 🥺

[bloodraven55]

Noooo don’t say that in the first episode you’ll jinx yourselves 😭