im gonna be ia for some time. im sick and tired of wasting time of my life not living it and instead rotting on this app. i feel too old to be on here lowkey
i feel like ben is so mad too. they begged him to play this role, he fell in love with the character & story and gave it his all to give them justice & they just… undervalued him & tore his story/darklina’s apart. by the way he barely posts abt the show i just know he is LIVID
this is what happens when you sideline the main character, focus on the loser side characters, and don't give the main and most popular ship their deserved screentime and depth<3
the biggest blessing darklinas ever got was to have the darkling be casted by someone who actually took the time to read the books, annotate his fav quotes, & try to give as much justice to his character as possible
i just cannot comprehend how the same writers who gave us domestic and soulmatism coded darklina in s1 made a s2 in which they wanted to eliminate their romantic aspect like??? both seasons seem like they were written by different people
it sucks because ben and jessie were the PERFECT casting for darklina. they proved how much chemistry they had together in s1 and they completely wasted it in s2 for what??
darklina having a lot of screentime in s1 = high viewership, getting renewed for a s2
darklina barely being in s2 = low viewership, probably not getting renewed
its simple math!
@acklesjens
i wasn't aware argentinians mostly descend from germans!! i thought most of us descended from the poor spanish and italians who came to have a better life!! jokes on me
again, this is what happens when you sideline your main character in her own story and try to force a ship nobody cares down our throats instead of the actual main event who brings in the views🤷♀️
#ShadowAndBone
went from 50.4M opening “weekend” to 55M in its first full week, to falling to 27M in week 3. Unless the show has some killer completion rates (or something else happens behind the scenes) I think that’s probably it for the Grishaverse at Netflix for the moment.
mind you this is the same man that had to beg ben barnes to be on his show only to not give a damn about his character and side of the show's plotline later
rewatching s1 of s&b and seeing how badly they messed up in s2 makes me so sad bc truly, the potential WAS THERE. this season seemed so promising and they could have done so much more with it and ugh i will forever be upset about it
he’s literally the
#1
darklina warrior he probably regretted accepting the role by how they butchered everything and it makes me sad both him and jessie deserved so much better
thank god most of the darklina fandom agree that alina’s powerless ending was just straight up disgusting and she didn’t deserve it at all. some of y’all seem to have read a different book…
how can you make the darkling think of his first kiss with alina before he died and tell me with a straight face that they were not meant to be romantic this season???
i think that what was even worse than alina losing her powers in ruin and rising was them going to the soldat sol and new sun summoners being born. it was so utterly cruel
also why aren't we talking about the fact that jessie and archie have 0 promotion together?? like not even from the time they filmed s2. the supposed main ship lmaoo
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being 20 and not having a single person interested in you in your whole entire life makes you feel so unworthy & undesired and i truly wish that people who've had at least ONE person interested in them understood that instead of pitying you and telling you you don't need anyone
i actually prefer s1 show darklina’s dynamic to book darklina’s bc i loved how the darkling was a straight up simp who always had heart eyes for alina, and their chemistry was simply unmatched. the writers wasted them so much in s1 i will forever be furious
@birratina
aparte hasta hace poco con el mundial cantaban "america latina sin argentina" y ahora quieren venir.... extranjera que veo extranjera que BALEO
imagine being so entitled that you think darklinas, fans of a ship from the original trilogy who literally started the grishaverse, cannot respond to a tweet about said grishaverse
the unprofessionalism of it all. please focus on writing a good script instead of writing stan twitter like comebacks to the fans of your show. maybe that's why you're spinoff is never seeing the light of day!
@magicmoonstones
SoC wasn't rejected 3 times. Netflix unexpectedly commissioned the room and then didn't greenlight production. We had no control over that.
But I see you're a Darklina fan, and now I understand what's going on. Shame, cause I was actually really excited to talk to you about her.
it’s so funny when ppl are like “90% or people watch s&b for the crows” and then you look up edits on for example youtube and darklina has double the views on theirs like. they are the MAIN event whether you like it or not
to also remember that they were meant to do the demon in the woods background story for the darkling but they didn’t do it to do the side character’s one (which could have been done in the spin-off) is another indicator that those writers dgaf about s&b
exactly this is my problem with 99% of booktok: THEY DON'T ADMIT THEY READ TRASH!!! and there's nothing wrong with that, i also read trash, but i'm aware of it and don't recommend it as the best ever written book in the world like them omg😭
idk i miss the time when people who read garbage were at least aware of it instead of making up communities that proudly encourage the mass production of worse garbage and presenting it to 14 year old girls as the peak of creative exploration of sexuality in literature
they literally made alina say in the show "mal always wanted to retire to a farm, but i never really liked farms" so it would be extremely cruel if they make that her ending and make her be content with that when she clearly expressed disliking it
it sucks bc i understand merging the 2 books for s2 bc they're afraid of netflix cancelling it & having to leave it open ended & never get to the events of r&r. but at the same time like, have some faith in your show & respect for the fans. we don't deserve the story being rushed
we don’t talk enough about that scene in which the darkling tried to connect with alina through the bond and she didn’t respond and he looked emo af about it
pre s1 era felt as if the showrunners wanted to explore the whole grishaverse and adapt all the stories and overall just felt like they wanted to make an ode to the fans honoring the stories. i truly don't know what happened between then and the filming of s2
idk what shifted in the universe after like mid 2021 when everyone went from being an etl, villain fucker stan to being the biggest anti and only shipping morally correct ships. genuinely feel like it should be studied
i love how we’ve all agreed that the summer solstice is alina’s birthday and the winter solstice is aleksander’s. it’s such a special detail that makes them even more soulmate coded to me
this is so funny bc the way i saw it luda was just the last straw of a long line of people he cared for during the years, not the ultimate love of his life. she furthered the point that he would always lose everyone bc no one was inmortal like he was
”let me be your monster. there is no light without darkness. without me, you have no counter, no balance. let me carry the hatred of this world.” 🥲🖤
#ShadowAndBone
#Darklina