I've Only Seen One Other Person Mention This Idea, And Even Then It Wasn't As Fleshed Out As My Version

I've only seen one other person mention this idea, and even then it wasn't as fleshed out as my version so here we go:

Belphegor and Baphamet might by a couple, with Bel screwing around in her lab all day and leaving running the ring (and initially creating it's denizens) to Baphomet hence why the Sloth natives look more like him. Also as a side note I think Bel's role in the sin circus troupe will be as the fortune teller/psychic due to both her drug connection and the dream-like feel of Sloth.

Nintendo really said: Let's do Balan Wonderworld, but actually amazing.

Like seriously, every new direct this year has been the best one.

Should I write a SM fic that follows the outline of a 20 year old British comedy? (I swear it'll be cooler than I'm making it sound)

The Sounds of Nightmares episode 5 analysis: Getting Swept Away

Jord knocked it out of the park with the setting and monsters, the cliffhanger was fucking wild.

The Nebulous Figure:

The Ferryman is extending his comic MO further by trying to convince Noone not to come to the Maw, but to integrate into the Nowhere as a whole. And like in the comics, I believe he personally engineered Noone's suffering in the Counties, let me explain. I believe the Ferryman used a piece of his liquid like body to contaminate the stream by Noone's old home, causing her sickness, it's persisting effects and now, a tumor, funnily enough, one shaped like the universal symbol of Nowhere, an eye.

As Above, So Below:

Jord's monster concepts are killer, a treasure hunter mixed with a sewer worker is just a perfectly LN-like way of warping things into somewhat recognizable horror, a strange man sifting through a watery area searching for things to collect. The visual of his "bag head" is perfectly visceral and his parallel with the (curiously well adjusted, almost Bully-like) kids and the parallel between that and Otto and Noone is just *chef's kiss*.

Noone's comment about feeling the Treasure Hunter's been changed either just serves to confirm that all humanoid Residents were once people, OR it's suggesting he's become a Resident more recently, which is quite strange seeing as he's a full grown adult.

There's not much to say about the kids on the surface other than their a great twist on the "minor" monster idea with them being a more indirect threat.

NOMES!:

I'm astonished it took us this long the involve Nomes in the series, but it was more than welcome. Not to mention the first nome's "betrayal" has some very interesting implications for my and @queen0fm0nsterz 's idea that Noone's companions parallel the Ladies.

Leading Into The Ending:

Since I know everyone will be curios, I think the ending had the Ferryman warping through the screen, batting Otto away, and seizing the chance to take Noone, this time, permanently.

Love this on so many levels.

who wants to go here with me?

My sentiments on Stella neatly summed up.

Do you think the idea that some people are just evil from birth and inherently beyond help to be a terrible message? I've debated people who claims that being mature is "accepting that sometimes people are just jerks" regarding Stella's depiction, but to me it's far more mature to accept that no matter how unlikable and despicable you think someone is, everyone is a person with both positive and negative qualities and the product of their own environment.

Yeah here's the thing: In terms of real people, yes, the effects of nature vs nurture on personality would be a pertinent conversation (and "some people are just jerks" is pretty reductive imo). But fictional characters are never "just like that", at least not in a meta sense. A real person made a conscious choice to make them what they are. And when we get shallow, one-note main characters like Stella (this wouldn't be a problem if she were just a side character), that's usually a sign that the writer was either too lazy to flesh them out properly or just wanted to use them as strawmen to make other characters look better. It boils down to a lack of empathy from the writer, as if this character wasn't worth the time required to make them multifaceted and interesting. But if that character's one of your main villains, it's laughable how backwards that approach is.