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Unpopular opinion: This recent season of shadowhunters makes me kinda glad it got cancelled, if it weren't for the bare minimum of Raphael content and Malec I would have stopped watched. They continue to treat their characters or color poorly, especially downworlders.

I’ve had this thought a couple of times.

I do enjoy some elements of the season, but there’s a lot I dislike, and a lot is due to Magnus and Maia’s treatments in the season.

I also don’t understand certain decisions made in writing and in storylines.

It’s really sad to me that this season seems so sloppy. I struggle to remind myself that it was written BEFORE the cancellation, because it seems to unfinished, sloppy, and fast-tracked through.

If it was written before the cancellation, the Sizzy development makes little to no sense, and so do the Maia/Jordan “forgiveness” *pukes* scenes, and everything.

It’s like this season, especially 3B, was made to try and cram the most possible in 10 episodes, and give all the fanservice. I don’t understand how this could happen, except showing that no one really cares about the story anymore.

Season 3A actions mostly only have consequences on characters of color. Magnus loses his identity and powers, Maia loses her boyfriend and her pack, Raphael is arrested and turned mundane, Luke’s writing doesn’t make ANY FUCKING SENSE?????

Jace doesn’t suffer ANY consequence after being the Owl from 3x01 to 3x10.

It also backtracked on everything the story stood for. It was especially sensible in episodes 14 and 15.

First, we have the Maia story.

Maia, whose entire storyline up to 3x14 was that she was not forgiving Jordan, because she was moving past him and that he didn’t deserve forgiveness. With a story of abuse, and a metaphor for rape through the Turning and its sequels, it was a story of a strong woman fighting for herself and overcoming PTSD. Suddenly, she was forced into apologizing and forgiving, because Jordan was dying. The writers engineered a situation in which a woman had to tend to her abuser’s wounds and listen to the very excuses she did NOT want to hear from him.

This was not closure. Closure was had in 3x08. We did not need to “go back” and have forgiveness, because forgiveness isn’t something that every character and every person deserves.

Second, the Clave & the System.

The show has always told us, always, to question the Clave and the authority, because they are bad.

In 3x14 and 3x15 though, we've had the absolutely contrary.

This goes very much against how the entire show has framed, or tried to frame, the Clave.

Until nowthe Clave was Imogen Herondale, early Lydia, Aldertree, Valentine, Malachi Dieudonné, Jia Penhallow. They were “The Law is the Law”, they were characters who were unjust because they followed antiquated, racist rules and ideals and beliefs. The Clave was the system to dismantle.

Following 3x15, the Clave is now Alec Lightwood, Simon Lewis, Underhill, etc

we have:

- Magnus facing issues because he's a Downworlder staying at the Institute, which is a problem that's against the Rules of the System

- Izzy bringing Raphael back because following the Rules of the System is better

- Simon being mad at Maia for not following the Rules of the System

- Heidi cheating the System and getting Death

- Clary not letting Jonathan get captured, and getting Aline sayng this is badthis is a huge glorification of the System™ as a whole.

As well as an obvious way for characters to get closer. Simon and Izzy are suddenly on the same side, with their earlier love interests, Maia and Raphael, on the other. Magnus cant really refuse Alec's offer to move in together, because he's almost defenseless now. Clary and Jace are on the same side against Aline and the Clave, and also against Jonathan.

The Clave goes from authoritarian government to take down, to hard but fair justice. This is very sad, and very annoying to watch.

When a show is entirely based on race metaphors and the idea that racism breeds genocide, you can’t have the very basis of the racism machine be “good guys”.

It’s almost as if the writers don’t care anymore, and if the writers don’t care: why should we?

Add to that the fact that, at the end of 3B, we will basically be in the same situation as at the end of 2B. Jonathan dead, Valentine dead, Lilith gone, Clace, Malec.

Season 3 has some highs, and a lot of lows, and yes, it makes me think, often, that if this is what season 3 is like, then what would have been season 4? And would I have even wanted to watch season 4?

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Remember when Izzy was practically in love with Raphael what two eps ago?? And now sizzy is happening, ah this entire situation is such a joke honesty

Oh yeah honestly. Simon went from being in love with Maia to not giving a shit about her and Izzy went from being in love with Raph to not giving a shit about him. I️ guess they truly were made for each other…🙄

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Laura Pergolizzi aka LP is an amazing lesbian singer/goddess

ahhh wait the singer of Lost on You right?

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I think “kochanie” suits you! It means dear one <3

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raphaelxantiago replied to your post: Camille not only changed her outfit but is a...

I don’t think that was meant to be Camille, I’ve always thought that was supposed to be Lily

That's what I was thinking and theoretically it makes sense but then the writing should have been different in 1x03 because Jace clearly mentioned "Camille's outfit".... so... sloppy writing or messy continuity, you decide.

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