twofouroneten: Bad take: North is a super nice guy with zero flaws who will always be super generous and never, say, explode on you after bottling things up for a long time
Real take: North is an asshole, just like everyone else in the Project. It's just under a veneer of super sweetness and downright passive-aggressiveness, depending on the situation
Real take: Tex is kind and selfless but she doesn't like to show it, so she represses expressing her true feelings and doesn't explain to people how much she cares about them
Real take: Wash was desperate in seasons 6-8 and became harder than he'd ever been in his life. The flashbacks showed us that he's actually a bit of a dork and that he was kind of new to being a special agent, and it actually explains some things in seasons 6-8
The counselor got a lot right, and it looked like he was sniffing for things he should have? .... But he also got shit wrong, and wasn't close enough to be actually on the mark
YEAH, I think the takes where the Counselor was actively messing with people as part of his role as The Counselor (gearing them towards falling apart and turning against each other) are my favorite takes
Bad take, which I will say with caution, because it's OKAY for people to project onto characters and see their sexuality and stuff if they want...but it's still a bad take if you're looking at his ACTUAL in0show characterization
And again I will say...if you want your favorite character to be gay because you're gay, that's fine! That's cool! But also Epsilon!church is canonically either bi or greyace with a Tex preference, lol
"The biggest problem that I see in analysis for this canon is people being unable to sit with the ambiguity or imperfections of grey characters and needing to either fully condemn them or fully exonerate them even when they did shitty things. That’s the root of 90% of bad takes on characters."
Like when Carolina starts training hard after losing Connie and he just assumes it's about topping the leaderboard instead of, you know, feeling super bad she couldn't prevent the killing of a teammate
Slightly adjacent, but I was looking through some old plurks and found one where I responded to someone on tumblr who had the take that Felix was just being manipulated and just following orders and did nothing wrong and having that moment of did we watch the same show?
also wash"The biggest problem that I see in analysis for this canon is people being unable to sit with the ambiguity or imperfections of grey characters and needing to either fully condemn them or fully exonerate them even when they did shitty things.
That’s the root of 90% of bad takes on characters."