You know what is a big issue with trying to "Snoot Game" this setup? Its that Goodbye Volcano High had a good setup for something interesting to grow from it. But H.H's setup and world building are just so hollow and mediocre that it nears that Magical Girl Guardian show I legit cant recall the name of at times. The world doesnt have to always make 100% of sense, it just needs to be pretty engaging that people want to keep following it. But Vizzie's writing is surprisingly lacking in depth, risk and filled with "safe edgy".
Safe edgy is basically edgy but without the risks, with it just sticking to acceptable groups and naughty words that dont go too far (nigger, tranny and even faggot are obviously off limits nowadays). Edgy is naturally risky by nature and Ik we associate it with edge lords but you can write something edgy but that had depth and a point to it all. Not even villains are allowed to be too nasty because we cant separate fantasy from the real world anymore.
I dont mind Hell not being a biblically accurate fire and brimstone, this is meant to be a creative endeavor afterall but it feels so disconnected from the rest of the religious concepts that makes one wonder what is the point. If Hell was an alien dimension, would much need to be changed? Not much, thats how little the setting actually matters.
Vivz stumbled on implied depth with HH since the setting and character
designs referenced archetypes and prior art that's deep and rich.
I'm seriously on the fence about postponing other projects of mine to make my own hellstory exploring the same premise but done by a fucking adult. The notion of "Hell's just a more honest modern earth but with a lot of very old damned running around, and we lean into the venerable nobles & generals of the great old empires instead of just do neon pink faggotry" is compelling, as is "Lucifer's offspring isn't a piece of shit and wants to fix the cosmic injustice of eternal damnation."
Hell (heh), I might even go for healthy gay relationships and damned autists but done in a mature way just to challenge myself.
That's really the crux of this shit and how it works, isn't it? Your imagination goes wild with it. What is the culture of such a place like? What about sub cultures? How do age-old damned treat the newbies? What are the stable states of such a society? Did millions of dead communists pull some shit? What would Lucifer think of it, one way or another, if he's characterized as pro self empowerment but cooperation clearly works? What are the old Roman elite up to? What are the old Chinese elite up to? What if someone wrote tenderness between a gay lead couple instead of this bone-dry stodgy bullshit that makes Orange is the New Black's later seasons look well written? What if Charlie's makeup got washed off and it's just fucking Piper?
There are all of these what ifs people run with and think about or fanfic or roleplay for people with brains, the teenage girls draw tons of character art, the men who want to be teenage girls pretend to be them on F-List, and then the show comes out and you go "oh yeah Vivz is just an animator, not a writer, oh well" and despite that you still keep returning to the concept wondering how it could play out with a better writer and you really do want more.
Son of a bitch. You don't even need a show at all, never mind a good one, if you get people engaged with what-ifs, huh?
