So, I just watched the first clip from season 3 of Helluva Boss released on the Prime Video channel. Well, ignoring Stolas being... Stolas, I wanted to address something quickly.
Really?
Like, are you serious?
Only now are they deciding to show that Stolas being tortured and almost killed by Striker traumatized him? Now that poor Stolas is a "commoner", powerless, without his position and daughter?
Now, it might seem like I'm being unnecessarily cruel and mean to Stolas, but I want you to think about it with me for a minute.
You all know how Helluva Boss uses Stolas's suffering, right? Stolas suffering from PTSD isn't going to be used to deepen his character, develop him, or anything like that.
No, no, it will only be used for one thing:
Make him suffer so the audience will feel sorry for him and to gather pity.
This is always how Helluva Boss's narrative uses his suffering, as in Mastermind and Sinsmans.
The loss of his power, position, wealth, and daughter was not used to hold him accountable for his mistakes or portrayed as Stolas' fault. It was only used to generate empathy and pity from the audience, so that they wouldn't have to address Stolas's real mistakes and hold him accountable.
It's just suffering for people to look at and say:
"awww poor Stolas ):"
And it's going to be the same thing here, his PTSD will only be used to victimize him and probably even to alleviate or justify mistakes he makes in the third season.
And damn, the worst part is going to be the fandom; they've been given an huge package now to victimize this damned bird, even more than they already did.
