oh ho ho ~ I'm BACK! Hex Hex Hex! And with me, I bring another question mhm mhm. What are things in the show that you REJECT 👎👎👎 as canon? Details! Character moments! Throwaway lines! Thoughts & Opinions! What are your "Not my FATE" thoughts?
And hi again anon! Might as well reply to this ask immediately as well, so I don’t get a new backlog, hahah.
Things that I reject from the show? Oooooooh boy. Take a seat.
I dislike that in the first episode we get to see this magical sentient glittery cloud flying past Bloom, indicating that there are magical beings other than fairies in this realm…only to never see them again. Not sure if that counts as having a problem with canon, but what the heck? Where’s the magic world building? The world building in its entirety?
There’s also a severe lack of backstory for a bunch of characters. I suspect they actually meant to provide more of that in later seasons, but some things would’ve been nice to know way earlier. Like, who is Stella’s dad? How did Luna exactly cover up Aster Dell? How and where was Bloom found exactly? No cutscenes of that? At all?
Then there’s the regular references to first world stuff. Of course I get that through the internet, most people, esp teens, know a thing or two about the first world. But come on, some of the references were just insanely cringey. Jeff Bezos mention, really? And then they also seem to largely throw that entire concept out of the window in S2.
Talking about season 2, what did they do to Saul? Poor guy got all his emotions whipped into an internal straight jacket or something. Saying and doing a bunch of things that didn’t feel like him at all. Farah is dead? He basically shrugged it off. I know he probably wouldn’t show it to the teens, but my god why did they show us the adults struggling in S1 to just practically ignore them in S2? I always either chalk it up to mind manipulation, a memory wipe, or that he had some kind of plan before Bloom wiped out Rosalind.
I also hate that Ben just kind of went with it and fled as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Sure he was basically threatened, but he could have had some bigger reaction to it at the very least. Sometimes I tell myself it wasn’t Ben, it was Bob (because of the actor swap hahah), so it doesn’t seem as bad.
Then there’s how Rosalind dies. You’re telling me she doesn’t even pull up some defensive shield, tries to run away, anything? HAhahaahahahahah. No. Stop monologuing and realise the ticking time bomb in front of you, Roz!
And lastly, the most obvious one, is Farah’s death. To this day I’m still convinced she was meant to return eventually (maybe in S3 even, not in S2), but that pressure from Netflix, budget, and Eve Best’s schedule with HotD made them cut that entire concept. I’m grateful that we got the spirit storyline, but I also simultaneously hate it. Mostly because she never got to say goodbye, or at the very least leave a message for her long time colleagues and friends Ben and Saul. It feels off and unfinished, and not like Farah. What do you mean now suddenly you realize how fairies can transform, which was supposedly something that couldn’t be done for a long, long time? How did no-one figure it out before? Oh and her death itself: what do you mean one of the most powerful fairies in the otherworld dies from getting her neck snapped without fighting back? Ironically kind of the same problem as I have with Rosalinds death. But I also think Farah’s death was way too soon, they could’ve dragged that out way more. Or rather, not have her die at all!
There’s probably more, but these are the ones that I mostly still think about to this day. I also haven't rewatched Fate in a while, and I tend to forget smaller things I dislike in shows anyway. Hope this was helpful anyhow, or at least entertaining!