That scene was just to portray Stella as not caring about Octavia and pushing her onto Stolas. Their goal is pretty much just to make Stella look evil in every scene she appears.
That wasn't the intention of that, though. Vivz already had the idea of Stella just being totally evil and used this as part of how to introduce that.
I know the goals and intentions, and part of me hates it cause it’s so freaking lazy and seeing this type of writing before, the worst part is that I know they’ll likely keep upping the ante until they have her drown a sack of puppies and crippled orphans just to get the point across that she’s evil, but like most of this show, if anyone takes a minute to look at it objectively, it fails/falls apart instantly. That doesn’t erase the intention, but how am I or anyone suppose to take that seriously if the underlying intention is supposed to take priority over what’s on the damn screen? (As an earlier comment said the issue is people with no experience with kids, trying to write parents with kids.)
It’s just like the relationship between Stolas and Blitzo or Stolas and Octavia. Both are a toxic waste dump when you examine the actions committed on screen and the words written, but because of the intention, they’re actually super in love with each other and just need to talk, and he’s a super duper dad that just loves his daughter, and is trying super hard. They tell us on Twitter or Instagram or whatever platform they’re on the real take away, and we’re supposed to just ignore the Show, the primary product.
Hell, they couldn’t even get the Show Don’t Tell aspect of Stella being abusive right. Pro-Tip: If you want to show Stella being abusive then, I don’t know, maybe, DON’T HAVE STOLAS CATCH THE HAND ABOUT TO SLAP HIM AND HAVE HIM STAND UP FOR HIMSELF. All I saw was a woman feebly attempting to hit the worst character on the show, failing, and then being put in her place because her Husband actually has most of the power, considering that he kicks her out, and she needs to rely on people above them both to actually be something of a threat. You just showed that she herself is not a threat twice in one scene, how am I suppose to think of her as one after that?! But the intention is she’s super mean and has been hitting him all this time and is super evil and feel pity for the Disney Princess Owl sining about being in a cage despite constantly being able to do whatever he wants with 0 consequences thus far, so thats what our take away should be. Fuck what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears, some asshole on X who can’t write for shit clarified it all in a tweet anywhere from days to years ago. Hope that post doesn’t get lost to time.
It’s the same issue with Striker. He’s a super evil gun for and wants to kill Stolas because someone paid him to, and the only people to oppose him are super evil guns for hire that kill people because they’re paid to. If the demon is willing to kill a cringy weeb, and that’s supposed to be funny, why should I see someone else as evil just because they have bird-boy in their crosshairs? Is it because you tell me I should like him? I say pull the trigger and do everyone a favor!
And I don't know if you've noticed this, but Vivz is FAT.
I am well aware that Viv is FAT. She and her crew also don’t seem intelligent enough to write a coherent story, have the will power not to run from her own shows’ premises, nor possess the theological nor moral knowledge to write a story about redemption using the Christian Faith as a basis for her world.
