edwin losing niko right when he can finally talk about gay crushes and feelings is crazy. what is he suppose to do now ??? talk to charles the crush ? to crystal the situationship of the crush ?? to monty the crow ?? the cat king ??????
i hope niko comes back on the first minute of the second season because i cant do this without her
I just want to acknowledge how well-crafted dead boy detectives is, in terms of how each shot is framed and colored. it's such a visually satisfying show, and as an artist i am feral about at least one frame in every single scene. i could go on for paragraphs about the execution of this but i'll just grab a few frames for examples, because. it's so good. (not super crisp images, sorry about that. best i can do with taking screenshots directly from netflix.)
this is obviously nowhere close to all of the frames i'm obsessed with, but it goes to show how much thought was clearly put into blocking and coloring!!! each scene has a color scheme or a theme, and the characters are very often dressed in a complementary way. (Maren's dark outfit, when we see her in episode 5, looks very good with her yellow and maroon front porch, for example.) there's a lot of orange/blue contrast, or brown/green, and altogether every scene has shadow and highlight, and isn't afraid of either one. (respect.)
it's just so refreshing to have such a gorgeous show to enjoy. everyone who worked on the framing and lighting in this show knew very well what they were doing, and I hope we get a second season so they can keep doing it!!!
(if anyone wants me to go in depth about why i love any of these frames, let me know. because i WILL.)
So as we all know, Edwin was seducing people left and right with his Repressed Edwardian Ghost Boy rizz (and even pre Ghostification with Simon). Yes from a story structure pov I understand exactly why they did everything they did and it's great, yay sexual and romantic awakenings! However from a purely IN the story POV the implication is that Edwin has had quite a lot of people interested in him that he has been completely oblivious too for the last 38 years (since 1989). And moreover that he will continue to have people falling all over themselves around him in future seasons. Because it would make no sense for that to come to a dead stop. I imagine they'll tone it down a skosh though for future seasons lol.
I wonder if Charles noticed and just never said anything. Maybe that's part of his protectiveness. His Bff is from 1916, I imagine the sex ed was nonexistent at that point, or of the "you'll burn in Hell if you do anything" variety, so yeah, I'd feel pretty protective too.
Okie dokie, here’s my chart of what I believe the relationships to be for Dead Boy Detectives!!
I don’t actually think that Crystal and Charles got to be friends with Monty before he got outed, so that’s why I think they’re just acquaintances. But if he gets a second chance then they’ll 100000% be friends <3