anyway i think hunt.ow is poorly shoved into the show (even if it was just hints) and ruined part of the writing for willow AND hunter and because of this they shoved aside gus like. hello
there's a REASON i didn't think it would happen leading up to ftf and it's because willow was JUST treating him as a friend. no blushes! just. being normal about it. and hunter blushing was fine! but. gggghhh they should've just stayed friends they should've just been friends the writing would've been better for it why did willow have to be protected and caught from the air when she has plants
YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD'VE BEEN COOL. WILLOW CATCHING HERSELF WITH A FLOWER LIKE IN ASIAS. Hunter could've then flashstepped her out of the way when kikimora aimed for the flower instead of that stupid getting knocked out of the air thing
Really, it's not that I dislike her. She's just never caught my fancy as much as the Luz, Gus, and Willow trio.
I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a liiiitle bit of bitterness about the show focusing on her and not her AND Gus and Willow, but it's whatever. It hasn't lowered my opinion of her, just made it harder for me to get into her lol.
*shoves a big wall of text behind my back*
oh what this? haha no nothing important back there lol. just redundant stuff really, you don't need to look there hahaha just a little bit of frustration at the show
[in all honesty this just turned into a vent. above the cut is the tldr and sums up my feelings on amity.]
Well okay. My main frustration with her is just how often she takes center stage over Gus and Willow. I know Amity is the love interest, and I don't begrudge her that. But still, I feel like the show could've given Gus and Willow a bigger part.
It's late, so I'm not going to go into all that right now. Feel free to another ask if you do want the big ol' thought dump later.
in the end, it just stings that Luz is introduced as this bullied, friendless kid, right? And Willow and Gus are the very first friends she makes there. But then the show never does anything interesting with them because Luz bonds with their bully instead.
Oh, and this also ties into why I'm not as big a fan of Hunter. The story could've had Luz, Gus, Willow, and Amity involved in the storyline.
Instead? Some unnamed bodyguard dude from the finale takes over. Gus, Willow, and even Amity are all just glorified emotional support while this random guy gets the tie-in with the main villain, gets possessed, dies, is resurrected, becomes Willow's love interest and Gus' best brother (Luz was there first btw).
Like, come on. I didn't sign up for this! I signed up for Luz with her two best friends and her girlfriend, not Luz does most stuff with her girlfriend, hangs out with her "best friends" at school (offscreen), and does all the plot relevant shit with the writers' punching bag.
I don't dislike Amity! I think I would like her if I didn't resent her from taking all the character development in S1 at the cost of Luz's "best friends!"
(I do hate hunter though. Fuck that kid)
My opinion on Amity is entirely neutral. Maybe I'd be a bigger fan if Gus' second (SECOND) A-plot wasn't overshadowed by another Lumity plot. Maybe if Willow's one S1 episode wasn't about how Amity bullying her was just Amity trying to protect her, and Willow's second (SECOND) A-plot wasn't about Hunter saving her sport team.
MAYBE if the characters I thought were going to be relevant, and fell in love with, weren't THROWN AWAY, my bitterness wouldn't be blocking me from enjoying the show.
But it is what it is. The show writers want their show to be about Hunter, Luz, and Amity. Who am I to decide what their show is about?
No, I'll just find new interests. Take Gus and Willow with me, since the show doesn't seem to want to play with them.
Lurk in the fandom a bit too maybe. After all, who knows when there might be a post in the Willow tag that doesn't have to do with Huntlow! It could even happen next week!
But lemme tell you, I've long since given up hope on the characters I love mattering again. I was pessimistic after S1. The trailer gave me new hope, and then S2 would've completely killed it if not for Ttlgr. (don't get me started on Willow barely appearing, or Eclipse lake showing that the writers themselves think Willow and Gus are only good for comic relief, because HEAVEN FORBID they swing at the gentle underhand pitch of HAVING WILLOW AND GUS CARE FOR LUZ WHILE SHE'S SICK, NOOOOOOOO THEY GOOF OFF AND LISTEN TO MUSIC WHILE SHE'S HAVING A PANIC ATTACK OVER HER GIRLFRIEND GOING INTO MORTAL DANGER WITH FUCKING HUNTER TO DO PLOT RELEVANT STUFF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH)
Anyways, after S2a I thought things were getting better! Gus has the setup with the Looking Glass Ruins, surely that's gonna go somewhere! And Willow........ uh...... she'll probably come back? Maybe?
But no. Matt's back in the background, suddenly Hunter is Gus' quote brother unquote or something so the fandom gets to infantilize the poor little baby twelve year old 🥺 Oh and a Willow episode! Surely this will be about her! Maybe they'll even make it a plot about her and Amity!
Nope. She's got HUNTER AS A FUCKING LOVE INTEREST NOW!!
And ALL I EVER SEE IS WILLOW AND HUNTER PARALLEL CALEB AND EVELYN THIS. GUS AND HUNTER PARALLEL PHILIP AND CALEB THAT. WITTEBANE WITTEBANE WITTEBANE I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF THE WITTEBANES I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE LUZ SHOW NOT THE FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT WITTEBANE SHOW
YEAH I'M GOING TO WATCH THE NEXT EP BUT DO I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE ANYTHING ABOUT GUS OR WILLOW? MAYBE ONE SCENE IF WE'RE LUCKY!! THE FINAL? GOOD FUCKING LUCK I HOPE YOU LIKE HUNTER BECAUSE IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE ABOUT HIM AND THE MOTHERFUCKING WITTEBANES AGAIN.
ahem.
kudos to those who like amity and hunter
I wish I could, but that chance has long passed.
my owl house phase is over and I'm just floating here while the flesh of my hyperfixation rots on the bone.
I'll probably write some more. I do genuinely love the characters.
but man, I watched that last ep and felt nothing.
I've lost hope on everything that started my brainrot for this show.
Ya know, I started watching this show for Lumity? I just got hooked on the og hexsquad afterwards. Knock knock knocking on Hooty's door was a dopamine rush when it came out.
It's just hard to love Amity when she's one of the people the writers are ignoring my faves for.
while I love that owl house is subverting the tropes of kid media by having Reasonable Adults That Actually Are Doing Something to Topple the Evil Regime (rather than it falling on the teen characters to do it by themselves) -
- I would still be willing to sacrifice every second of screen time given to the Coven Head’s Rebellion Plot if it meant we had more Gus and Willow moments
