This is autistic as fuck. That said, it's like 100% right. It's like this thread in a video.
This has little to do with the video itself and the thread right now, but because the trend of Blitzo getting shit thrown his way whilst doing nothing really wrong so he can be easily forgiven was brought up, I'll mention it: I find the way Blitzo burned down the circus incredibly dumb.
He brushes against a guy who was conveniently holding a cake with lit candles, which conveniently fell in a way to burn the cloth of the tent, which conveniently almost immediately burns down, and conveniently, there is just a stack of
explosives laying unprotected in the room, which instantly explodes and maims everyone. Maybe the scene was meant to be darkly comedic in some way, which is funny I'll admit, but still, how was the circus fire solely Blitzo's fault? Shouldn't the cake carrying Imp just have brought a cake without candles if there's highly flammable material in the room? Or since the tent itself has negative fire resistance? This was just a freak accident waiting to happen, with or without Blitzo. I understand him blaming himself, and everyone else blaming him out of hurt and grief, but the story itself also implies that it's Blitzo's fault? Whilst also going "Well he didn't really mean to he was just so hurt and misunderstood.....but he hurt others.....It's so deep...."
It just feels so lazy. Of course the audience will side with him, he just slightly pushes a guy whilst not looking and his friend explodes and his mom fucking dies. There is no genuine culpability, it would've been more interesting if him setting fire to the circus was a more deliberate act of negligence, but how dare a character that kills people for his job have even a smidgin of moral grayness, what if people might not like him ?
If she really wanted to have the events happen in the way she wrote them, could she not have at least brought up the terrible construction of the circus? I think it would've been a far greater case of wordbuilding and social commentary if the imps needed to work with some incredibly shitty material and were forced to just kinda store explosives like that since they wouldn't have the time, money or energy to hire a management team or proper storing material, instead of some bad rich guys looking down on them and shouting 'You suck!' every now and then.
