Honestly at this point knowing how well Killjoys ended and how great they were to all the characters i just want a spin off about Delle Seyah and Aneela. Also other shows take note after years of that no one is safe shit happy fullfilling endings that actually show care and love for the characters are better
I know! As we waited for and then watched s5, I was always a little relieved it’d be over soon, it was so stressful and you know how it is for us, the longer something runs, the more chance there is of something being ruined. But to know that the writers had such safe, good intentions, now I want more! Like exactly, that “no one is safe” BS has really destroyed a lot of TV, to the point that this ending felt like a major subversion just by deciding to keep people happy? They’re the ones who went outside the box and didn’t play by the rules.
I keep forgetting Aneela is also HJK and am like, but you know, even if HJK is too big for this show now, can’t we have a spin-off with these other characte–d’oh! But now I don’t want to leave this world and these writers.
I want to watch killjoys entirely but the dutch d’av relationship is already giving me nightmares…
Oh, yeah. That’s something I just tolerated, at various levels, throughout the show. There are some m/f ships I really love, but this wasn’t one of them. Which is perhaps unfair, because D’av is usually very lovely, but I think I just never really saw why they had to get together and then have this off/on endgame love. It started off with them just there, a man and a woman, and then never really changed from that. Dutch has such layered, interesting relationships with other characters, so it was like, why this? And sure, their friendship is nice, but nicer than her friendship with Johnny?
But most of the time, at their best, they’re in the background, quietly supporting each other, and I can handle that much to very wholeheartedly enjoy the rest of the show.
do you know “le portrait de la jeune fille en feu”? it’s a movie about the love of 2 woman (with adèle haenel and noémie merlant)
I have heard about it! It’s getting such good reviews.
[Michelle] Lovretta says Full Stop there was never any other option than to have a happy ending. “It was extremely important. I was determined to end with joy and I think that a large chunk of the recipe in anything that I write is hope. It is hope. It is kindness, it is joy. There may be monsters around you and there may be occasional crime and murder, and there’s going to be a lot of dick jokes, but there’s always got to be heart because I’m not in this for the grim and the gloom and the masturbatory rage,” she explains.
“There’s rage in the real world and I can’t write it. I can process rage, I can process trauma like a fucking champion. I can do that shit, but I can’t dwell in it. I can’t have a world be full of desperation and despair and cruelty. I don’t want to spend time there and so I’m never going to give that to you. If that is the metric by which I write, then it sort of presupposes that I need to end in a place that lives up to that.”
I’m a person who loves tropes and I love sort of spinning them and [there was a trope that I wanted] to spin on its ear. There’s always a feeling that for a story to have a mythic power —for us to feel that it mattered and that the people mattered — well, then they have to die, because life and death is that important. But if death is all that is important, then I think you’re selling life pretty damn short, and I don’t want to do that. Right now, given the state the world is in, I don’t want to be part of that negativity.
I believe in these characters. I love the journey they’ve been on. I’ve loved watching the villains become quasi-anti-heroes and the heroes be challenged. And I don’t see why they have to die just because a lot of conventions within storytelling tell us that we need death to feel that there’s weight. The weight on this show has always been about love, and it’s always been about hope and family and those things shouldn’t have to end.
Michelle Lovretta (Killjoys creator and executive producer)
(via banrions)
