So! I think I should give my thoughts on the finale as a newbie to the fandom. Just as a note, this is talking about all of the characters from the DSMP and not their creators.
1. C!Tommy does not deserve the clout he gets. He is an abused teenager who has been let down by literally every authority figure around him. He deserves so many hugs and so many mugs of hot chocolate.
2. I don’t think C!Tommy forgives C!Dream. At this point, I don’t think he can. What Dream did was horrific. He killed, tormented, and abused a literal child (Tommy is a child I will fight you on this) to the point where he nearly committed suicide. I just think at this point he was stalling for time. Maybe, just maybe, he sort of understood Dream’s end goal. But I also think that he saw just how twisted Dream was at this point and decided to just go along with whatever the man had to say. He just had to keep him there, I don’t think he was buddy-buddy with Dream at all.
3. Michael is going to be in season 2. I will riot if he isn’t. Or he is safe and alive with Phil and whoever else isn’t dead. He will see Tubbo and Ranboo again.
4. Screw C!Punz and C!Dream. You know what I mean.
5. C!Tubbo needs a lot of friggin therapy and I will happily give him the entire world. Same goes for C!Tommy and C!Ranboo.
6. Jack. Just- Jack. Why? Why would you break me this way?
7. I need to say this for those in the back, Tommy should never have been put in this situation.
8. Whoever gave Tubbo nukes we need to have a talk. Also, Tubbo, my friend, what the heck? I mean, I’m guessing he got them from his days being the president, but I’m not up to date on that info so I may be wrong? I mean, if he got them as a sense of security then I’m all for it. He deserves to feel safe. But. Buddy. That’s, uh, that’s a pretty large nuke you had there. I don’t know about your nuke, but typically the bigger your nuke is, the bigger the explosion is. I don’t think the SMP was going to survive even just one of them.
9. You know what, I really didn’t appreciate Dream and Punz going all Thanos philosophy on Tommy and Tubbo. They were all like “oh we revived all these people and we gotta kill all these people”. You know what would’ve kept all this from happening? Not bloody manipulating, killing, and reviving people. Have mercy it’s so easy all you have to do is not do it! Get a hobby, like knitting. Don’t go around screwing with life and death. Also you really don’t have to kill everyone. What’s the point of that anyway? I mean I get it if the egg had popped up because of revival shenanigans, but I think it was there before anyone was revived? Except maybe Sam, but I don’t know if Dream knows about that. But yeah, a lot of shaky logic there.
10. Where are all the non-psychotic adults during this? I’m being genuine here, where are they? Except Wilbur, who I know went off to Utah, where is everyone?
11. Not about the finale, but C!Schlatt deserved worse and that’s all I’m going to say on that for now.
12. Overall, I have come to the conclusion that Tubbo, Tommy, Michael, and Ranboo deserve the entire world and a lot of therapy. Dream and Punz deserve the nuke. Also Quackity is just really cool I like him.
Generation Loss is a comedic tragedy in every sense of the word. Every character we see exemplifies this fact, but no one other than The Austin Show proves its truth.
We begin at the carousel. Austin, Gay, takes his turn by pleading for himself to live because he has a wife and children back home. The rest of the cast interrogates him about his “wife and kids,” clearly suspicious of his truthfulness without even knowing his dubbed “title.” Everyone in the room treats Austin like a joke.
In turn, so do we.
Next, we reach the closet and shortly after the failed drag show, Austin remarks, “Look, I uh… I didn’t expect to die here.” It’s a moment of pure honesty, whether we like it or not. It happens again when the Puzzler tries to party with them, and Austin has to angrily remind him that they are his captives and are actively trying to kill them.
Austin: “What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? We're trying to get out of here. I have children and wives— wife. One wife! What is this some sort of game? I’ve been stuck in hear for hours it seems. We’re trying to get out. Why is nobody else freaking out? We’ve got C4 strapped to our neck…”
It isn’t until Ethan’s death, his blood pooling out from underneath the door, Austin screaming at the others, begging them to have a reaction, to care about their circumstances, to care about death, that we finally understand Austin’s role in Generation Loss.
After all, in every great comedy, someone always has to play the straight man.
I am so intensely physically ill after watching genloss. I loved it, don't get me wrong, but the absolute dread it instilled in me is something else I swear. I wasn't terribly bothered until Niki died. Despite knowing it wasn't real, something about how abrupt and senless her death was incredibly disturbing to me. Then, the ending when Ranboo died so quickly with absolutely no theatrics. I literally have no words. I am unwell.
cranboo pisses me off a lot dont even get me started. i like them as a concept (somewhat) but their execution was so fumbled and shit ToT no wonder fanon went crazy trying to invent a better version of him.
no offense but folks still failed to fo that a bit imo. idk i read a lot of fanfics esp in early 2021 and the character of Ranboo was still so fumbled. Mans did not have a stable foundation to stand on.
I MISS C!BEEDUO RAGHHHHH THEY DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER THEY WERE SO IN LOVE I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HAVE THEM BACK AND HAPPY 😭 I’M GONNA BE ON MY DEATHBED AT 80 YEARS OLD JUST STARING OFF INTO THE DISTANCE LIKE “c!beeduo never got a happy ending 😿”
i want to compile a list of horror media that people need to watch before they call genloss groundbreaking incredible material. like yall are soooo so deeply entrenched in copium toting this thing around like its the best piece of horror media in the world when like. theres no horror. there has literally been no horror. how are we watching the same thing. go watch gemini home entertainment or marble hornets or daisy brown or unedited footage of a bear or this house has people in it and then come back to me. dont fucking talk to me until youve consumed some horror media thats actually good first!!!!!!!!
I went to re-read parts of Kudzu again after the latest chapter and I had a fucking Epiphany and now I’m dying inside
Tbh, this is probably obvious but I can’t stop thinking about it and need to talk about it or I’ll explode
⚠️FADING LIGHTS CHAPTER 4 SPOILERS UNDER THE READ MORE⚠️
So… oh my god.
Ranboo’s breakdown in the abandoned house
That was about the thousands of times he’s been reset, had his entire being wiped to a clean slate against his will. That entire scene was an allegory for Ranboo’s feelings toward that experience. Holy shit. Holy shit.. it hits so much worse reading it with the context in chapter 4. Ranboo is so damn anguished over the thousands of lives he can’t remember. All his memories, his sense of self, the metaphorical furniture in his brain, stolen from him by a higher power that he has no hope of fighting against.
Everything he was saying about the house, how empty it is, how there’s nothing left in it so why should it be called anything at all, was how he thinks about himself. The way he’s mourning for countless lives he no longer knows, all his potential, everything he may have wanted, all his hopes and ambitions, gone just like that. How he didn’t ask for this he doesn’t want this he never wanted this. How he’s torn down and destroyed again and again and again with no mercy by something he has no control over. He feels just as powerless as the house, just as empty and hollow.
The desperation with which he’s shouting all of this at Tubbo, it almost starts to sound like... a plea.
God I can’t imagine what it must have been like for Ranboo to wake up after that. To wake up and not know who you are. To have no memories of a life before, yet know you’ve lived countless lifetimes. What it must have been like whenever he knew he was about to be rebuilt from the ashes of his old self, and there was nothing he could do about it
It hurts so much more reading that scene with the context we have from chapter 4. That scene gave us a glimpse into the whirlwind of pain swirling inside Ranboo.
Goddammit @hellenite you are such an incredible writer and I am now crying /pos
On another note... I think it’s high time I depart to kick the ass of some 5th dimensional deities, brb
seeing all the boobers go “He cant control his fanbase!” should feel like validation to what smiletwt has been going through for years, but it’s more like a slap to the face.
you’re telling me they only understood because it happened to THEIR streamer? you’re telling me they find toxicity in fanbases okay only NOW because THEIR fanbase is too big? so after two years of me being in this fandom, having to sit through smiletwt crit and argue against stereotyping the entire fandom, when other subtwts weren’t even willing to listen to a word we said, they finally understand because it happened to THEM?
how much do you want to bet they’re going to go right back to “dream’s fans blah blah blah slash neg” as soon as this has blown over? not learn a single fucking thing?
There is so ranboo before and after the box art coming
also did anyone else think of. that one part of a song that goes "I can't decide whether you should live or die" at the part where we chose rans fate? (Oh its actually called i cant decide)