Brief Hazbin Hotel review

 Recently watched the entirety of Hazbin Hotel, and I have a few thoughts on it.

I found it fun, but very lacking. It really felt like it was intended to have 20 episodes but instead condensed all that information into 8 episodes, and it really suffers from it because you either get very little development or we do get development but it isn't earned. The pacing is extremely weird.

I loved the animation, the characters and am a big fan of the aesthetic but I do wish there was more outfit variety.

I found the music mostly forgettable, but some of the songs were really fucking good.

I am not a fan of the humor or the overuse of cursing in the dialogue, it felt really juvenile and cheap.

Surprisingly they actually handled the topic of Angel's trauma with so much care and maturity. I really appreciated that.

I found the relationships between the characters really forced because there just wasn't enough time to develop any of them or flesh out their dynamics. Again, an issue with the pacing and the amount of episodes

The premise has a lot of potential but limiting  it to only 8 episode really killed it. Hopefully the second season is better. It was fairly enjoyable but flawed in very glaring ways. I mostly find it sad that as I kept watching I kept thinking about how much better the show could be.

kfp headcanons

 i should be sleeping, but instead i'm thinking about kfp (yes, the hyperfixation has not gone away) so here are some headcanons in no partucular order.

1. i've given a lot of thought to what exactly happened to kai in the third movie. how can you kill someone who is already dead? the idea i have landed on is that his soul is still there, it's just scattered, and it needs some time to pass before it can reform.

2. po has been dealing with nightmares his whole life. initially he couldn't understand what was happening in them or why he would wake up so unsettled, but after learning about his past and his repressed trauma, it all started to make sense.

3. tigress is a trans woman.

4. po was a very lonely kid growing up, partially because he was fat and partially because he was neurodivergent and so other children immediately noticed he was "weird."

5. shifu keeps a bunch of tai lung's old belongings in his room that he looks at every time he misses him. tigress once accidentally found it when she was a child and shifu immediately lashed out, so she never went into his room without permission again.

6. this is one that i could make an entire post about because i have given it a lot of thought. since tai lung and shen appear to be the same age i like to think they were childhood friends. tai lung being imprisoned was a huge blow to shen's mental health, and it made him unwell enough that it was almost a catalyst for him going down a dark path too.