This doesn't even feel like fanservice though. Like, I'm not a stranger to shows at are explcitly queer. I've watched my share of BL. I know what fanservice feels like and looks like.
This is ...something else. This is like...GENUINE on a level that goes beyond fanservice. Fanservice, by definition is cynical. It's done to appease a market, to keep an audience engaged, so they will keep watching to make everyone involved money.
I feel like what we're getting from S2 of OFMD is...not motivated in that way. Like of course they want to succeed and get to keep making TV and probably want to make themselves money.
But, I feel like this is about actually playing out character stories in genuine ways. It's not unearned, it's not extraneous, but it IS kind. I think after the end of S1 and the beginning of S2 we forgot how kind ofmd can be as a show to its characters.
But letting Ed get to feel like he CAN earn his way back into a happy family is kind. Letting Stede and Ed be together, talking things out is kind, letting them set their own boundaries and terms is kind. It's not doing everything for max drama, which is how dramatic TV and romance tends to go these days.
So it feels like a gift to fans in a way that is rare, but it's not a cynical one. I think fanservice is a very incorrect word for what this show is doing. It's doing what it WANTS to do, knowing it has a fanbase that will support it whether that's torturing its characters or painting romantic scenes under moonlight. And it gets to be both, and I love it so very much.
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song 10 with twilight sparkle
We like our fun and we never fight
You can't dance and stay uptight
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancin' in the moonlight
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I think there's an argument to be made that Will and Hannibal have directly opposing concepts of love. Especially in season 1, Will treats romantic love as something that would make him sane, help him regain control over his life, sort of anchor him if you will. That's why he kisses Alana in Fromage. And it's because of the same reasons that he's being denied his desire for romantic love here; Alana rejects him because he's not mentally stable. In a way, he's being told here that love not only "heals" you but that it's something for the sane – and not for the "troubled" like him. This is also why Will later keeps his current "happy" marriage separate from his complicated past with Hannibal. Because love is not supposed to get messy.
But to Hannibal, love is messy. The only time he's loved someone before caused him nothing but pain. Mischa's death traumatized him. And the love he had for her and all the pain that came of it changed him forever. To him, love does not heal, it destroys. Where Will perceives love as change for the better, Hannibal can only see it as change for the worse. Because it's the one thing with the ability to hurt him (or to "influence" him as they put it in Secondo) – love is an uncontrollable force, it's inherently messy.
And if you interpret their concepts of love like that, it's interesting that they both deny themselves love but for different reasons; Hannibal fears love because he is scared of getting hurt again and Will (for a long time at least) does not allow himself to experience love because he's convinced it's not for him.
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still stuck on porjai, visibly pregnant, flirting with night
who fucking goes for it
i only know the asian culture i grew up in, obviously, and not thai culture. but the social stigma of being unmarried and pregnant? and having the nerve to still be flirting?? that's not the Good Girl thing to do, and i remember the way the Not Good Girls were treated and talked about where i grew up
so porjai actively trying to get dates? night finding out she's pregnant with her ex's kid and just. being fine with that? big deal to me
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Queer media really just always be like ✨HANDS✨
She Makes My Heart Flutter (2022) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | My School President (2022) | Fragrance of the First Flower (2021) | GAP The Series (2022) | A Time Called You (2023) | Moonlight Chicken (2023) | My School President (2022) | Dangerous Romance (2023)
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