Sick again and back with the 'slightly unhinged posts'. This time?
I have rage issues with the Hazbin Fandom, and while I don't usually throw my opinions around like this, i am currently lacking all filters telling me why this might not be a good idea so, here goes nothing:
What the fuck is ya'lls problem with Show Alastor?
Like I get it, his Pilot design and introduction were cool. He was a mysterious, powerful shadowy figure no one really knew anything about, and for a Pilot, that's fine! It's sets up the possibility for theories and mysteries to be unravelled later on, and that's a good thing!
But I keep coming across edits of the Pilot - nice edits, no shade on those who make them - and the comment section is filled with people lamenting that the Show version is not the same as the Pilot version?
What did you think was going to happen?
That a character who, upon his introduction, had like ten minutes of screen time, if even that, was going to stay that way? That Viv would never explore the character she's apparently had for the longest time out of everyone from the cast?
Genuinely, what is the Problem here?
Show!Alastor is great!
He's a sarcastic, ragebaiting, manipulative, powerful, prideful asshole and he knows it. His parts in Season 2 were and are some of my favorite scenes.
So he's no longer mysterious?
Not only do I beg to differ, I'd argue the guy is still plenty mysterious.
We have not once had a flashback from his Pov. Not once - outside of his scene with Rosie and telling Vox he's a creep - did he openly speak on his opinions on 1. The hotel, 2. The people around him, 3. His own goals, 4. His backstory/family/past in general, 5. His feelings on basically anything.
He was dancing on a chain all this time and quite literally just threw off his leash. We have no idea what he's going to do now! And considering what he pulled to get out from that deal, I'd wager an unchained, uninhibited Alastor might be more dangerous than the one we've watched so far!
And we still don't know where he was for those seven years, nor what Rosie wanted him to find, nor what their plan for the hotel/the Morningstars is.
And before someone comes along and says, 'Oh but he was telling Vox why he liked Charlie/talking to Vox', no.
We have no reason to believe anything he told Vox about the hotel was true, mostly because his every reason behind talking to and at Vox was to push and ragebait and trick him into doing what he wanted him to do.
Those lines about Charlie? Designed to get Vox to invite her so he could use the favour she still owed him.
Literally, there is nothing wrong with liking the Pilot - I like the Pilot too - but if you thought one of the Main Characters was going to stay a mysterious, unknown figure for the entirety of the Show - which we are two season into - then maybe the problem isn't the writing for Alastor, but your own expectations.
