thinking about the owl house and how everything i hated about it was likely a direct result of 1. it being produced by disney and B. huntlow being canon (and yes i do think canon huntlow ruined a ton of stuff. i’m not exaggerating. it completely ruined hunter and willow’s characters for starters by taking their pre-existing cool personalities and changing them so the ship would fit a boring unseasoned girlboss x malewife dynamic. willow should’ve been aroace [she’d make more sense than lilith] and hunter should’ve ended up with one of the blight twins [id have preferred edric because the show didn’t have ANY decent canon mlm ships. and no, willow’s background gay dads and the implication of aladarius in the finale do NOT count. although i wouldn’t have complained if hunter had ended up with emira either] shipping is my special interest so like.. i get kinda aggressive about these things but also i think it gives me a bit of credibility on the topic. you can disagree but that’s just my opinion lol)
i remember at one point i made a list of stuff i hate about the show, and while i don’t have access to it anymore i remember that most of the stuff i listed was, in fact, very likely a result of those two factors.
like adding onto the anti huntlow thing, i think lumity also has problems for some of the same reasons huntlow does, albeit not as drastically. like it’s obvious that the creators decided on the ships BEFORE writing their character’s personalities which ended up working out in lumitys favour but NOT in huntlows. cause yeah, amity changed after getting with luz but it was sorta realistic? meanwhile after getting with willow, hunter fully stops being funny and loses his charm entirely. he was my favourite character until the Huntlow Personality Retcon happened. now i genuinely can’t stand him. if i wanted to see a boring m/f girlboss x malewife “bi4bi” (in quotations cause hunter never showed interest in the same gender at ANY point which leads me to believe that him being bi was an afterthought they threw in during season 3) fictional couple where the most interesting thing about it is the fact that it’s a gb/mw dynamic, i would simply watch a millie x moxxie compilation on youtube. and i don’t even like helluva boss. and i think that dynamic is overplayed.
like people always say “straight couples are boring” and they get hate for it but are they wrong??? when the majority of m/f couples in fiction are either “gender roles: the ship” or “reversed gender roles: the ship” it starts to get boring as hell. where’s the variety. like for example a straight ship i really enjoy is tim and sasha from the magnus archives, because they actually have personalities that compliment one another that aren’t just “he’s a simp and she’s strong!!1!” obviously we don’t get to learn a ton about them together, but that’s also a nice change. why do ships always have to be the main focus at the expense of a good story. and again: i’m saying this as someone whose SPECIAL INTEREST IS SHIPPING.
obviously there are worse ships than huntlow. i’m aware of that. but i also think i’m allowed to have and express my opinions. kay? cool.