ilikedragons

Really, shows like this should be required by law to make one final season that is just the characters hanging out after the plot has been thoroughly resolved.

These characters have been living in my head rent free for the past few days since I finished the show and I just need to see them being happy and going to parties together.

I need to see the main characters slowly overcoming their trauma and coming to terms with the things they did and the things that were done to them. I need to see them grow closer as they grow up in a free world. I need to see them be happy. Please.

There's only so much I can imagine on my own.

Not gonna lie, the first season was a bit of a chore to get through. But I'd heard good things about the show, so I pushed through, and I'm so, so glad I did.

The characters in this are so well done, it's impressive. It shattered my expectations.

Watching this show was a stepping stone for me, as this is the first ever, really, truly, undoubtedly, openly, unapologetically LGBT+ show I've ever watched and actively enjoyed.

Saying I enjoyed it is selling it short, I was delighted.

Seasons 2 and 3 were well made, but seasons 4 and 5 were just something else.

They knew exactly what they wanted to do, and by god they did it.

I've always been a fan of the "lost children" genre of stories, which is oddly common. Alice In Wonderland was my favorite book growing up, and it still is now that I'm 20. And for all this time I've been fascinated by Alice in Wonderland-esque stories of people being lost in their own minds, in supernatural mazes, in alternate dimensions, in their dreams, wherever as long as it's weird and interesting. And judging by the popularity of these stories, I'm not the only one. For some reason, this idea of wandering off into the enchanted forests and dark swamps of imagination is appealing to a whole crowd of people.

But this, this is the magnum opus. I never watched Coraline as a kid, and I feel like I was robbed. I would've absolutely LOVED it. The atmosphere is perfect, the visuals are awesome, the music, the pacing, it's all so good. A movie that revives that little spark of love for film within me. An impressive work of art and one that I hope will be remembered as such.