you have died i'd say i don't get yek's party but there's nothing to get they're dull on their own and don't bring out anything interesting in each other michael was well not interesting but useful at the start since he knew more than alex about the paranormal then vela comes along and just plain knows more than him that's uh workable i mean he still has ownism no way that's not important anymore and we're trusting information from PROFANITY_TOKEN rory now so what's the point of michael he's redundant all he does is step in to take pot shots i don't think he even wants to be here he's bored vela should either be his worst nightmare or holy grail this is someone who's hopped realities but besides this one moment i can't recall them ever really interacting speaking of every beat involving her has alex doing the exact opposite of what she asks then her rolling over and going along with it which totally undermines how she's introduced as capable and headstrong rory just has no good reason to want to keep hanging out with us at all claudio and chandra are nice aside from when michael cracks jokes or when veler and rory get annoyed by alex moments before he's forgiven everyone just vaguely gets on and that's boring i think the party shouldn't be held together by this barely believable boring friendship but instead by friction and obligation which is pretty much there just never brought up chandra is really interesting and tragic in this regard in the party's shared theme of responding to grief she doesn't really remember her twin brother it's a grief that's foisted on her that she can't truly connect to she feels more bad about claudio who has not only been unable to move on but is now getting roped into hunting for semi-pack then in every scene thereafter this trait just doesn't exist which leaves her with nothing where'd that conflict go michael and vela should be butting heads michael has spent ages on his forum then vela rolls in with her experiences which contradict what people have told him this is a way to give michael some actual character and things to talk about plus a reason for vella to explain the paranormal in smaller doses throughout the plot rather than in two giant goes they should bicker and argue over how these things work no that's not right that isn't how this works meanwhile alex just uses both of them to go after sammy now this would make alex more unlikable and the thing is alex's problem was never that he's unlikable him being unlikable is the point of his character the problem is that he's boring there's nothing in him an audience would want to watch making him more clearly driven and manipulative would make him more defined and as such make it easier to demonstrate him changing alex shouldn't even act interested in the paranormal outside of how it can get sammy back you acted like this was connected to sammy messing with forces he doesn't care to understand not as a bumbling idiot but a headstrong one this would make his relentless pursuit of sammy more believable even
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