#general kirgian

[kallypsowrites]

Text Posts Part 4/?

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[kallypsowrites]

You ever think about the failure of that Aleksander flashback in episode 7 to portray Aleksander as any sort of villain (or even the beginnings of a villain)?

Because in the flashback we learn:

1. Aleksander and the Grisha are being unfairly hunted

2. His strategy to get rid of persecutors has been to feign immortality with the help of Luda. He doesn’t even jump immediately to murder though its clearly within his power

3. He refuses to run and abandon the Grisha when his mother tells him to do so. She shows selfishness. He shows selflessness. Which one is more often the villain trait?

4. He doesn’t even intentionally create the Fold? He uses Merzost to take over the soldiers to try to save his people. The Fold is a byproduct but what else was he supposed to do? They were backed into a corner with the kingsmen threatening to murder every Grisha there?? You think they would have let them go if he went quietly?

5. Shows basically zero power hunger. It seems he didn’t try to take the throne from the king. Just won a war for him. None of his dialogue shows a shred of ambition.

6. Yeah, I guess he kind of looks intrigued by the Fold at the end, but so would I be if I created this strange dark abyss.

Usually a villain prologue at least hints at one’s villainous tendencies but there’s nothing here? They could have written him raving to his mother about ‘if I could be king I could save the Grisha’. They could have made his experimentation with Merzost less a desperate play and more of an act of bitter vengeance. They could have confirmed he tried to take the throne. They could have generally emphasized his ambition or not given him a brutally murdered love interest.

But its hard to disagree with a single thing he does here. And so when we transition back to the Aleksander of the present all I’m thinking is: Understandable, sir. Have a nice day.

It seems at every turn that this show wants to humanize Aleksander and make him less of a villain. And yet, we know they’re headed toward the same endgame so every decision made is baffling.

[kallypsowrites]

The Apparat: I think the peasants dislike the Grisha because they do not suffer. 

Me, crawling out of the bushes: INTERESTING because I think--stop screaming--I think its fascinating that you think suffering is a sign of worth for Grisha, especially considering that most of the saints that you currently worship were likely once Grisha who suffered horrible deaths because they did not give ordinary people enough or were betrayed by ordinary people out of fear and that (dodging guards) and that you are perfectly content to worship saints and their powers because they’re dead and easy to romanticize and no longer a threat to you. But if you came across a living saint, you’d probably be the one to kill them. (getting dragged away) Maybe we should--let go of me--maybe we should consider the fact that people shouldn’t have to suffer to earn the right to live and that’s exactly why the Darkling feels the need to expand the fold. Because you fuckers toss aside Grisha who aren’t useful to you even if they are literal saints so why should he do the right thing when it has literally never worked for the Grisha and has only gotten them killed?! No, listen to me, let me go. Let me punch the Apparat in the face. LET ME--