i understand how it can kinda seem like eret's own mistakes were glossed over in this stream but i also do think that's just because. eret already dealt with that. he regretted his betrayal almost immediately, he went against dream and joined pogtopia's side in November 16th, he built a museum to honor the past centering The Caravan and left a note written "I'm sorry" in the replica of the final control room. he understood people's grievances, apologized, and continued to be nothing but kind to them (almost adopting fundy, letting tommy use the museum for therapy, helping tubbo get michael back). the point isn't if what he did was better or worse than what wilbur did, it's that he's been putting in the work for years now to make up for that, while the best wilbur could do was give a quick apology and leave (no matter the reason). so yeah, i think eret definitely has the right to lecture wilbur abt this

idk if i’m interpreting the ending as something different than it is but-

tommy’s apology was to stall. one last desperate attempt to distract dream as the nuke alarms went off, one last apology not to dream, but to everyone else.

“i’m sorry” as they all look up towards the sky and see hell rained down upon them. “i’m sorry” not for everything he’s done, but for what he’s about to do. “i’m sorry” not because he felt for dream, but because he was conditioned to apologize whenever he made a bid for agency. firing a nuke and destroying everything? a last attempt at control.

and then it’s over. and then there’s nothing left, except there is. 

a new world, one where tommy doesn’t remember and tubbo doesn’t remember and- and dream does remember. a world where he finds tommy fucking innit chopping down a tree in a landscape that is both familiar and not, where tommy looks at him without a flash of that familiar fearful defiance that dream is used to. and suddenly, he sees an opportunity. a fresh start.

a clean slate.

dream’s “wanna be friends?” isn’t genuine. 

it’s menacing. 

and maybe this isn’t even the first time he’s gotten to start over. maybe it’s not even close. if he tries again, maybe this time, things will be different.

(he’s just gotta figure out a way to make up for the absence of wilbur soot. surely that won’t be too much of an issue. surely.)

I don’t think cc!Dream’s audio is meant to make c!Dream sympathetic. It is an audio practice of c!Dream, and c!Dream is known to be an extremely unreliable narrator, especially when trying to make it out that “woe is me, I was pushed to this”. I think c!Dream is definitely sympathetic, however not because he was pushed to this point, but because of how lonely he is and how determined he is to fulfill a futile plan.

So yeah, cool audio, but it isn’t exactly reliable, considering it’s coming from c!Dream. And yes, he can be honest- brutally sometimes- however, I think this is the time he is choosing to twist his actions and make it seem like he’s a victim to his own choices. Humans aren’t snakes, we’re aware of choices much more. Snakes bite to protect, and humans can blow up; can exile; can destroy, but that isn’t to protect.

Escaping the narrative

- a c!Wilbur webweave

Ozymandias Dream SMP Animation by SAD-ist (text removed) // Minecraft End Poem // witness my character develop and grow by miloutic // art by @cuhreestina // Passerine by thcscus// portrait of Wilbur Soot from twitter // post by @thespoonisvictory // post by @tmmyhug // art by @andhyssops

been thinking abt sandduo. specifically within the context of phil’s perspective of wilbur’s death. and his resulting actions because of it.

like. phil hasn’t seen his son in a while. and suddenly his letters stop. so he hauls ass to this new place he’s never been and is met with his son being at the rock bottom of the mental spiral.

he watches his son destroy the thing he’d been talking about so passionately for months. and he saves him from going down with it. and what does his son do after his life is saved? beg to be killed.

[[ everyone talks about “phil didn’t know he was on his last life” but personally. i think it’s worse if phil didn’t know he ever had more than one. bc both he n techno only ever had one ]]

and then. they rebuild. his son’s citizens heal the thing he both gave his life for and also destroyed. then they imprison him. they execute techno. they prove the exact thing that he had feared - that this was indeed a place of corruption.

so he decides to finish his son’s work and destroy the thing that ruined him. and he doesn’t care if he’s labeled a villain for it because they already made up their minds on him. and the least he can do is make this right.

this isn’t even to mention everything w ghostbur, of how he couldn’t ever really see him as his son, how he always maintained emotional distance. how ghostbur was distraught at the destruction of his life’s work because he couldn’t remember how horrible it’d made him.

he tries to revive wil, too. he tries everything he can to bring his son back. now that he’d gotten rid of l’manberg, he didn’t have that to make him spiral again. he could get a new start without that weight on his shoulders. he could still save his son.

except he can’t. he doesn’t get his son back, not on his own. not until his life is used as a threat against the kid that was basically his brother. not until his son is, once again, a weapon of pain.

he saw his son walk away to start a new life, and then watched it turn into an instrument of torture.

and he still tries to help him, still tries to get him accustomed to life, still tries to refocus his efforts to less horrible things. to keep him in a place he can move on and be a person rather than a weapon in someone else’s fight.

but the record is carved, and he plays the tune once more.

Awesamponk came full circle in the egg finale. We’ve seen them jump from lovers to estranged, holding on, letting go, to enemies once again. Ponk’s attempt at retribution backfired on him but it didn’t, really, because Ponk still has Fran hidden away in some secret prison (like a baby piglin used as a bartering chip; like the consequences of Sam’s actions).

Ponk’s “killing Sam” mission started long ago, where he tried to conscript Foolish to help him murder Sam in somewhere around July 2021. It’s worth mentioning, though, that he has plenty of opportunities to murder Sam in the coming months that he never takes. He fantasizes of it like a dream he hopes will come to fruition—a recent ex insincerely wishing death upon their past lover. He’s (understandably) very betrayed by and angry at Sam, but he doesn’t act on any murder plans. His death is not what Ponk really wants at this point in time. 

Even after Sam took Ponk’s arm, Ponk was (mostly) amicable towards Sam face-to-face for a long time. He yells a lot, and he makes petty jabs (“I know you’re good at burning [bridges]” comes to mind), but follows it up with, "Just so you know, you can come to me after everything. I will still support you, Sam, okay? You'll still have a place to stay. Because all the wrong that you have done is going to catch up behind you." Sam immediately says, “I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong.” At this point in time (approximately July 2021), Ponk seems to be bitter, but tells Sam that he’s still willing to wait for him. Sam, meanwhile, obstinately refuses any sort of reproach. This is essentially how their relationship goes for the next year or so, even while Ponk threatens bloody murder behind his back.

Ponk acts in a similar way towards Sam right after Dream escapes prison, only this time the amount of time he’s waited has taken its toll. "The next time you ask for my help, I don't think I'll be there for you. I think I'll just stand and watch. I honestly don't care anymore. [...] You're not even worth the durability on my sword.” Sam offers his own, and Ponk refuses even that. “I don't want you to die, you know why? [...] I have a feeling that someone great, someone who used to be is still in there, and he’s fighting to come out. And one day, that person will make it out, and you will see the shit that you've done to other people in this world, alright? It'll be much worth than death, Sam." Here, I believe Ponk states what he really wants: he can’t wait for Sam anymore, but he doesn’t want Sam to die. He knows that Sam is going to suffer for his actions one way or another, but he doesn’t want to be the one to do it. He’s done with Sam. 

The next time he talks about wanting to murder Sam comes chronologically after his lore stream where he decides to live in a cave. He’s tired, his clothes are tattered, and he asks both Aimsey and Eryn for their help in killing Sam. In a couple of months, Ponk jumps the train from “I don’t want Sam dead” to “I’m going to kill Sam myself.” In between his last interaction with Sam and here, Ponk’s been beaten down by life and has been alone for months. The only thing Ponk knows how to do by this point is blame Sam: in his mind, all his problems started with Sam and his arm. 

This isn’t even considering all the times both Ponk and Sam separately have flirted with Foolish to hurt the other. Or, the times Sam’s flirted with Ponk while truly believing he hasn’t done anything wrong.

By the point of the egg finale, Ponk has realized that Sam is never going to change. Ponk has been suffering, and he blames it all on Sam, and Sam has received no retribution. So, Ponk finally takes it upon himself to hurt Sam the way that Sam hurt Ponk all that time ago, even though he claimed he never would. And it still doesn’t work! Because Sam always had a contingency plan, and he blows up Ponk and he escapes. He still hasn’t learned his lesson—and neither has Ponk. He can never truly let go. 

It’s interesting to think about awesamponk in the context of the egg finale, which primarily covers the story of Skeppy and Badboyhalo. Where Skeppy and Bad have doomed themselves and the world time and time again in order to save the other, Sam and Ponk will never be able to overcome their strife, despite how much they still clearly care for one another. Skephalo say “I care for you so much that everything else can burn,” where awesamponk say “I care for you so much that I’ll flay you myself.” Both exhibit unhealthy codependencies that end up hurting themselves, the other party, and the rest of the server.

I have to wonder where awesamponk is going to go from here. Neither of them are healing, and they are both getting worse, and that’s pretty par for the course for a dream smp relationship, actually.

I talk a lot about my qualms with c!Phil. His behavior to c!fundy is cruel and unusual at points. But that’s the problem; it’s unusual. Because, seemingly, there is no real line of reasoning for why he treats c!fundy like that.

People often flock to surface level arguments when I say this, something something butcher army something something the time he almost scammed him something something. To which my only response is: c!Ranboo is his neighbor.

(And to the second thing- by that logic my mom should disown me because I signed up her email a few years ago for colleges and now she gets a comedic amount of emails everyday and it’s funny. But I guess I should be disowned and tormented for this. Or something. I’m not sure…)

Anyway. My point is that any excuse he makes for his hatred holds no actual weight once you realize he has little to no anger for c!Tubbo or c!Ranboo- the former of the two being far more proactive in the butcher army plot than c!Fundy was.

And here’s the thing; I couldn’t accept there was no answer. There had to be some estranged reason I didn’t get and I needed to figure out what it was.

And I reasonably think I have. Now obviously, the Morbillion words I’m about to write were probably not intentionally written (as most things on the Dream Smp tend to be) But my relationship with authors intent is a bit strained for this server. Whether Phil wrote this intentionally or not, I’ll praise it nonetheless for being an interesting piece of dots to connect that add a fascinating layer to c!Phil.

To start; c!Phil doesn’t like responsibility. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this. Everytime he discusses c!Wilburs death with someone- he always takes partial blame, but never full blame.

The sentence will start with “I killed him… but-“ he will *always* tact on something else to blame on the end, usually the government. There is also the time he said “Because the government made me kill my son.” I don’t think it gets any more explicate than that.

The thing is too is that c!Phil killing c!Wilbur didn’t have tangible consequence. Obviously there is emotional consequence: grief, sorrow, etc. But nothing tangible; L’Manberg is gone, the new president has been selected to lead the New L’Manberg, c!Tommy and c!Tubbo- whilst found family figures are not blood related and therefore they are not c!Phils responsibility, etc.

Oh except for one thing:

c!Fundy.

You know the kid who’s an orphan because of c!phil, the kid who no longer has a dad because of c!phil, the kid who is directly impacted by the loss of his blood family… because of c!phil.

(Idk if I just have the “I need to over explain everything because Twitter will Misinterpret my words and kick my ass if I don’t” disease but just to elaborate: Me saying this isn’t exactly putting more importance on c!fundy than the others mentioned. It is just that he is the only *Tangible* consequences. Anyway)

c!Phil, is morally (and If we were abiding by our world rules for just a moment; legally) obligated to take on c!fundy. He is c!Phils sole responsibility.

And that’s where the problem is. He can’t push c!fundy onto something else. He can’t give c!fundy away or find an excuse to get rid of him. c!Fundy becomes synonymous with Responsibility and Blame.

And if c!phil takes c!fundy under his wing. He is *admitting* that c!Wilburs death is 100% his fault. It is nobody else’s. And he must take full responsibility; and full responsibility, means all the grief that comes with that.

Think about it. You’re an immortal, you’ve seen nations rise and fall. People die beautifully, tragically, unfairly, etc. You havn’t felt true grief in a very long time, if you felt grief for every person you’ve met that’s passed you don’t think you’d be standing where you are today.

However, your son dying- no less to *your* sword must be a hell of a lot to take on for someone who’s grown comfort in apathy.

So he doesn’t want that. He can’t handle genuine grief.

So when the opportunity arises to get rid of it. He immediately pushes c!fundy onto the one thing he’s *always* blamed c!wilburs death on; the government.

See c!Phils excuses for doomsday and similar events is that he doesn’t want another event like c!Wilbur to happen. But ironically, when c!fundy gets wrapped up into (what c!phil perceives as) government corruption, c!Phil immediately- without hesitation- disowns him right then and there.

And for someone who so badly wants to ensure nothing will happen like what happened with c!Wilbur. He’s a bit shit at that huh. But that’s the thing;

he gets to push c!fundy, the personification of responsibility and by proxy grief- onto what he *really blames for c!wilburs death* the government.

The worse part is- c!fundy would’ve listened! Had c!Phil talked with him and discussed his opinions I guarantee you c!fundy would’ve folded like an omelette (remember when c!fundy lied and said he thought Doomsday was justified just to get c!Phil to love and hang around him more? Yeah.) Hell, the last thing he says to c!phil is “I love you!” Clearly showing he cares and values c!phil and his opinions. And c!phils only response, to having a window to protect another family member from government corruption is; “you’re dead to me.”

Ah. I love irony sometimes. Isn’t it funny that government corruption supposedly led to his sons death and he wishes it upon his grandson who is currently being corrupted by the government? I think that’s funny.

TL;DR;Please shut the fuck up; c!Fundy is the personification of grief and responsibility, c!Phil pushes him away at all opportunities (especially pushing responsibility for him onto the government) to avoid having to deal with the true grief at taking responsibility for c!Wilburs death.

Yeah. That’s about it. This is lengthy. And I’m sorry for any errors. I have shit eyes but I like analysis, so. If you disagree too that’s ok. I think discussion is fun. Thanks for reading!

Hii I'd actually love it if you meta-d about Wilbur's presidency as a part of fix-it endings!!

okay okay so. i think that more november 16th fix-its (as in happy ending not making it better necessarily) should have tubbo relinquish presidency to wilbur which is not a common take even in cwilbur circles so i want to talk about it!

first i want to ask you what makes wilbur a tragic character? the moment of peripetia, or the moment of reversal in the direction of his character. what actually causes his downfall? this is a whole post on its own but i think everyone with sense will agree that this moment is the "are we the bad guys" speech. his fatal flaw is not grandiosity, it's not arrogance or pride, it is self-doubt. this is a reoccurring theme, it is what causes him to build the wall, it is what causes him to hold an election, it is what causes him to believe that he is a villain, and it is what makes him destroy his country.

a major major point of s1 cwilbur is that power is not evil. power is revolution, agency, freedom, and without power you have none of these things. another point is that power hurts, freedom has a cost, revolution kills, and agency leaves the door open for you to do things you will later regret. and the self-doubt comes from this pain, from wilbur questioning if the good in people is real, and if the pain of power is worth bearing so that the good can shine through.

i think you can see where i'm going with this. a redemption arc is, in essence, a halted tragedy. and if you're going to halt a tragedy, you have to remove the trait that is causing it, in wilbur's case the self-doubt. he has to take up power without worrying what the consequences may be.

at his worst, wilbur is powerless, though dissatisfied and loathing in his servitude. he intimidates tommy into being on his side. he brags about how no one is on his side, and everyone would betray him given a chance. he begs his enemy dream for weapons, referring to himself as a peasant under his lordship. he demands his father kill him when the explosions didn't do it for him.

at his best, wilbur is powerful, and comfortable in his power. he challenges dream with superior arguments and dares him to stoop to violence to stop him. he offers tommy vice presidency when he was the only person to question his authority. he rebuilds a home for him and tommy after being exiled. he throws himself in front of technoblade, his best soldier, without any armor, to demand niki's safety.

in the aftermath of november 16th, when wilbur is at his weakest and desperate to die, if he for whatever reason doesn't die, he will have to get up. to gain some power back. it's in his nature to rebuild. and after a month or so of gaining back trust, of sewing the bonds that kept l'manburg strong, i think it is fitting for tubbo, who didn't want the spot and doesn't know how to handle exile or the anarchists or dream, to offer to step down if wilbur will step up. and wilbur will hesitate, he'll think back to pogtopia and his tirades and lmanburg and the sleepless nights. and the memories will sting a bit, until he looks into tubbo's eyes and sees hope. sees that he inspired hope. and without question he will accept.

Thoughts on the Finale

Honestly as someone who watched Tubbo’s POV of the finale first it was sad and tragic, but not too unfairly so. C!Jack appearing and their interactions together were fire. Tubbo having to talk himself into flicking the lever? Banger. The nuke effects? Cool as fuck. cc!Tubbo went so fucking hard that stream as he has in the others, pouring his heart into every moment. When I had watched this stream I was sad but largely alright with the ending. Would I have loved L’Moonberg clingyduo happy ending more? Of course. But this was fine.

Then I watched Tommy’s perspective. I thought he was just talking whatever to keep c!Dream and c!Punz occupied. But then the death happened. And the execution of the ‘c!Tommy gains insight into c!Dream’s motivations’ was just too sloppy, too close to an abuse victim forgiving their abuser. Just a smidge more care to ensure c!Tommy understanding c!Dream’s motivations but not condoning his methods would have been 100 times better. Just one sentence. And then the section in the ‘new world’. Just.. why.

Anyway I have been through this before, more than once. I know how to deal. How to take the best parts and cherish them. How to read fanfictions that explore unexplored parts and fix broken elements. Where to look for joy and heartache and laughter.

If you are in this boat, I believe you can do it as well. This community is strong, creative, and passionate. Meta writers, artists, fanfiction creators, all of you who create the content that brings people in. If you wish to continue I’ll be honoured to see what you make <3

Dude c!Jack literally believes that both c!Dream and c!Tommy are the problem that they both screw everybody else over because of how persistent they are on destroying each other that it's the rest of the server who gets screwed over in the middle of their meaningless wars

He doesn't believe it's all c!Tommy's fault but he's angry at c!Tommy specifically because first of all c!Tommy killed him for no reason and has always been a complete jerk to him but also because c!Tommy was supposed to be his friend

C!Dream was never particularly close to c!Jack that's why c!Jack only feels ignored by c!Tommy because it's c!Tommy who c!Jack expects to care for him

And it's c!Tommy who time and time again shows he doesn't care because c!Tommy can be a bit of careless jerk at times with even the people he loves the most saying stuff like well it's different you have thicker skin to c!Tubbo when c!Tubbo opens up about feeling hurt

That's what it means to be a person they all have their flaws their charactersistics their points of view their stories and their reasonings

They are not perfect and they are not supposed to be

even if they part ways, the one thing i truly need is for tommy to know wilbur will be fine, and for that to be true. that he cant stay, because there's too much here, because there's a hole in the ground the size of his love and of his pain that he just can't fix, here. so he needs to go far enough that it looks a little smaller; and he needs to make space around it so new things can grow. he's trying to give people better closure than he did before. for some people that is letting them hate him, and never seeing them again. for some people, it's forgiveness. for tommy, it's this: he'll be ok. he loves him, and he'll be ok. i can't be the brother you deserve, here, now. and i need to leave because i need to get somewhere i can. i'll be ok because you need me to be. and when he finds somewhere he can be someone new (someone better), and settle down with a guitar and a sunrise and what's out there in the world that he doesn't know yet (somewhere kinder), and when that hole looks really, really small surrounded by all the things that grew around it; he'll write. and, if tommy wants to, he can write back.

Tommy’s Dream SMP story has centred for the most part around his conflict with Dream. It’s how his story begins, entering the server hungry for content and keen to challenge Dream. 

This adversarial relationship is always present throughout the rest of s1 - notably Dream trades L’Manburg’s freedom for the discs, showing how serious the both of them are about this war. And the discs are very much the symbol of it. Having the discs = winning and wanting the discs shows how much they want to win, even to the point of obsession.

It’s of course S2 which transforms the dynamic further. Originally it’s more of a fun rivalry of sorts, but it becomes a deadly brutal war as we see how Dream attempts to crush him, physically and emotionally. Whatever the case, this comes to define Tommy’s arc for the rest of the server. Both overcoming Dream physically, in getting the discs back and locking him up in prison and mentally overcoming the damage done to him from all the conflict.

S3 reveals that Tommy can not find peace while Dream’s still out there, despite his best efforts. We see the many ways his issues manifest and the different things he does to find closure. 

And that brings us to now, where Dream is a threat again and the question of how vulnerable Tommy is this time, both to Dream and his old weaknesses. Of course, s4 is where we’re looking for conclusion once and for all.

To end Tommy’s Dream SMP story therefore means ending the conflict with Dream for the final time. It’s how it began and how it should end. 

“Stop turning friends fucking around and playing into lore!!!” Bitch what do you think L’manburg was. What do you think the disc war was. What do you think Fundy being Wilbur’s son was. Like, so many storylines are built off of friends messing around

Also, the whole “cc!Dream was just messing around with cc!Tommy” is true still, however with the added context of the newer stuff, we can look back on it and go “oh that’s fucked up”. It’s like how when c!Wilbur rigged the election, it was mostly as a joke, but now we can look back and go “...actually that was like- hello? what? this happened. okay.”

ALSO Also friends can mess around with each other and play a character, y’know that, right? Like, when I tease my friends and act like a fucking wanker, I’m playing it up for laughs. That is technically playing a character, you are exaggerating something in order to get a reaction

See? Dream obviously didn’t foresee the whole exile/abuse plotline and shit, but he would’ve gone “oh do you know what’d be funny” and then started the disc war with Tommy, all while exaggerating his role in it by threatening to burn the discs and stuff. Like, he is playing a character, even if that character isn’t fully fleshed out.

I don’t often make these kind of analyzation posts often and I might be wrong but something about Dream considering changing only for the nukes to drop hit me. I don’t know if I’m doing this right but just the fact that his death along with everyone else to due to his action, due to everything that happened. He never had the chance to change because he already made that decision a long time ago and now in some horrible way that involves everyone else suffering he’s suffered the consequence of it. I know that the finale is very flawed but it’s honestly good in that kind of angle. The fact that Tommy will not agree with him and still thinking that he’s a piece of shit understood why he did this and figure out his entire motive that is not underneath layers of it’s fun or greater good. He was just scared child who is upset that the world is complicated and that everything that he knew was changing and rather than change in small ways alongside it or try to accept change. He tried to force change in big ways, mess with innocent people’s lives and justify saying that soon they will live forever and it will be a better place. And the moment that he heard Tommy finally analyzing and slowly deconstructing his motives. The moment that dream seem to have begin to understand and actively let out his emotions. It was all gone. He have multiple chances and multiple warning signs yet he didn’t change. And now it’s too late because the server got nuked. It’s a symphony of a tragedy yet one that happens because of his actions and fatal flaws.  Dream finally realize that he doesn’t have to do what are he did. And he paid the price for not realizing it before.

The SBI really embody the downside of leaving a legacy.

( Noticed this all by watching KNP!’s fantastic “Ashes” animatic. Go give it a watch!)

Wilbur’s remembered, but more as the lunatic who killed his country than the leader who nurtured it.

Tommy’s the symbol of defiance and persistence against Dream’s tyranny, but his abrasiveness ruined his relationships and he’s alone.

Techno successfully razed every nation who wronged him, but even despite his power can’t help getting dragged into conflicts via favors.

Phil’s legacy is overshadowed by his companions—Techno and Dream are credited for Doomsday, and jailbreak, and half the server didn’t know Phil killed Wil till weeks after the sixteenth.

“Do you really want to be remembered for your worst moments? You may wind up alone if you do.”

“Legacy” just seems a fitting way to describe their actions and consequences. The refrain “I’ll tend to the flame, you can worship the ashes” as “I can sow the seeds of peace but I’ll always be remembered as the one who chopped down its tree.”

Of course I understand criticism of the writing up to a point, but some of the people in this fandom seem to appoint themselves as backseat writers and it’s just like if it’s not done carefully, it ends up coming across as so rude and oftentimes just toes the line of being like bullying. I don’t know when it became okay to say “CC X shouldn’t write lore” or “this CC doesn’t know what they’re doing they shouldn’t be allowed to control their own story.”

It’s one thing to say “this plot line is not for me, here’s some things I think could have been done better” or “I don’t watch this storyline because until XYZ starts happening I dislike the writing choices” but like be real y’all, is this actually how you enjoy the story? Or is that cope so you feel okay shitting on the plot and that’s what you’re actually enjoying?

Are you really a fan of the DSMP or are you a fan of whining about the DSMP? If you truly want to throw another tantrum about how everyone’s just such a terrible writer and you could just do it so much better, you’re not a DSMP fan, you think you’re y/n.

Like if you’re so convinced that things are terrible now and all you’re doing is complaining about how it’s not like the glory days of season 1 and Exile Arc, then why are you here??? I’ve got some bad news for you buddy, they aren’t reading your tumblr critiques and they aren’t interested in fulfilling your expectations specifically. They are going to write the story they’re going to write for better or for worse. Sometimes there are plots I’m not a fan of, but after I mention what I don’t like about them, I’m not going to continue to watch them just so I can keep regurgitating the same things.

Season 1 is not coming back, it’s never coming back, it was a combination of too many things that no longer exist now, and if you’re just still pining for it, you’ve gotta just go rewatch some VODs or something. I say this with love in my heart. Of course there’s a line, I’ve never said there can be no critique, but have a little integrity and be honest about how you’re engaging with it.