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Imagine you may very well be an online creator. By some mix of windfall, skill, and supreme fortune you may have managed to derive a regular following for your online writing forum of preference. Things are going well, however there’s appropriate one field: you may very well be out of immediately interesting ideas. You have acquired some in the tank, however nothing concrete ample to flip into a plump-fledged myth arc. You may merely wait for these ideas to gestate into something stronger, however the attention economy and even a few weeks with out updates may cause your myth to lose the tenuous fandom it be constructed up!
So what carry out you carry out? You screw around for a whereas. You save out half-baked entries with ideas that may, in the future, prove helpful however obtain no longer really have a point apt now. You bring in new characters and conflicts for ten minutes to preserve readers coming back, however obtain no longer actually derive to the backside of or acquire them beyond their utility at this exact moment. It be the kind of thing that any editor price their salt would throw out immediately, however whoops, it be years later and the stuff you wrote to preserve reader numbers up years ago is now being became into actual TV for folk to watch. I knew there was something we forgot to carry out! Womp womp!
That’s about the suitable rational explanation I can think of for the sheer amount of meandering these last few episodes. Accurate look at Dahlia’s meeting with the military crew at the mansion. The scene itself is fine, with some sturdy comedic dangle-up in a wacky sitcom trend way. But to derive there we use your complete last third of the earlier episode watching Dahlia obtain the invitation to the palace, look for her commute to the palace, travel by carriage to the palace with Ivan so she can trail to an empty room the place Wolf picks her up to…I wager take her by carriage to a varied room in the same palace? There’s finding charm in the small diversions in lifestyles and then there’s navel gazing at the DMV, and I think all that nonsense qualifies as the latter.
Suffice to say that episode 10 is far admire the last several, which ideal contrasts with how episode 11 is actually able to dangle a substantive conversation for the first time in what feels admire months. It be a small awkward that Dahlia and Wolf quiet have to formalize even the sharing of secrets and tactics, on the opposite hand it be nice to finally look these two develop closer as they throw back their wine and fine dining. Moreover, what we learn about Dahlia here is one in every of those aloof, all-too-human stories you can find anywhere in the world. We can’t really explain why her mom left her father, and neither can she. There shouldn’t be any clear resolution or evident lesson to be taken, appropriate a myth of human connection for appropriate or in dismal health that both the character and audience have to take a seat with.
It be basically what I have been asking from this reveal for weeks, and I can’t near to a resolution if I’m relieved or frustrated that it waited till the 11th hour to actually carry it. I sing I can say I’m happier with it than with out, and hope that whatever Dahlia in Bloom hast left, it’ll be price returning for.
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