Jesse Golo

So, I was thinking about the idea of infantilizing the Hazbin cast and a question occurred to me. Who is the youngest character in this show?
Because if you include their time after death, all these people are like 50+. (The rest of this post will not be talking about background characters like the Thrones because they aren't really characters or characters who haven't actually appeared like Eve)
Abel might be the sixth oldest character on this show. Maybe seventh depending on when Emily was created. (The people ahead of him would be the Voice of God, Sera, Lucifer, Adam and Lilith).
And depending on how exorcist lore turns out, Vaggie and Lute might be approaching 8 years old.
As someone who has social media as such a big part of her identity, Velvette might be the youngest character we've had any focus on. If Vivziepop stuck to her original plan of making her a teenager, I'd probably be older than her.
Angel Dust died in 1947. He's been in Hell longer than any of the Vees (Things like late night TV Shows and cooking shows as seen in Vox's backstory weren't a thing until the late 1940s). There is a nonzero chance Valentino was 8 years old at the time.
This is a crazy rabbit hole I've pushed myself into.
According to a teaser for the pilot, Charlie was an adult in 1817. She could be the eighth or ninth oldest person in the show (Saint Peter, if he is based on the Bible, is at least 2000 years old which would knock her two rows below Abel, Emily's still a mystery). Zestial is one of the oldest sinners and people's interpretations of when he died put him in the late 1700s.

I guess dying significantly slows down your ability to mature and change. Might be part of why everyone is so confident no one in hell can become a better person. Hell in this show is at least 10,000 years old. Biblical Adam died at 930, so maybe it took 9000 years for Adam to go from someone who deserves Heaven to what we got in the show.

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14 hours ago (edited) | [YT] | 147

Jesse Golo

I've been seeing rebuttals to critiques of Hazbin Hotel, and specifically Charlie Morningstar, around the internet. Some are interesting. Most aren't really relevant to my critique of her character.
The most baffling one I've been seeing popping up is people saying that the show is not yet complete as if that means we shouldn't be talking about flaws in the current season. Each season is a contained story and within that story, the characters are completely worthy of critcism and praise.
I can't help but wonder if they apply this rule consistently. Do they withhold any judgement of characters they don't like until stories are complete? If I said Charlie is an excellent character, would they tell me that I have to wait until I watch the last episode to say that?
The things is, I get that their underlying point is that Charlie is still developing as a character, but they're expressing it in such a weird way. The idea that I can't make a critique of a main character after two seasons of their show, that someone who says "I've watched the whole show" is wrong because we're only two seasons in, is simply laughable. Now I'm imagining them telling someone who's 300 chapters into Naruto that they have to read the remaining 400 before they can say he's a bad character (He's not, I'm just using that as an example).

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Jesse Golo

People often say death shouldn't be undone, and while I agree with the sentiment, Penny Polendina from RWBY is a great example of resurrection leading to a character becoming even better.
I even thought her second death was kinda good too.
I have mixed thoughts on them making her a real girl though. The characters treat it as a success even though they shouldn't, and it's not well written mechanically, but to me, it's an attribute and consequence of their failure in Atlas, and directly leads to that second death. If I think of making her human as a mistake, which it was, it works.

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Jesse Golo

I criticize Charlie a lot, and will probably continue to do so, but in isolation I do like this show of her conviction and Vox's failure to break her.
The only thing that's missing is an acknowledgment of the fact that people have to want it, and I think she knows that, she just doesn't acknowledge or verbalize it. Anyone can be redeemed. It's just a question of if they want it and are willing to work for it.
The show doesn't do a good job of separating those categories, which leads to hilarious scenarios of Valentino being lumped in with 'Innocent souls.' But I don't think the show can acknowledge that without putting huge caveats in Charlie's project because up until it's proven it's possible, so few actually care to try, even to avoid death, even though the show will tell us (unconvincingly) that this is a land of eternal suffering. Plus, there's the fact that season 2 chose not to focus on the new patrons who were choosing to try even without proof outside of jokes.
I see I've slipped into criticizing the show again.
My point is, in a sea of cringe, this was a strong moment. It's like, the one time Charlie gets one over on Vox and it's really clever because of course he asked that, and of course, she had a response.

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2 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 258

Jesse Golo

It's really interesting to see how certain Hazbin fanfictions interpret the beginning of the exterminations. A common trend I see is the idea of a violent uprising by hell, either purposefully led or accidentally spurred on by Lucifer and Lilith leading deaths of either humans or winners, thus leading to Heaven wanting to make sure Hell can never do that again.
Obviously, that's not what the show goes with. Such an idea is never mentioned by anyone in Heaven as justification, the narrative just treats it as a fear-based atrocity and because they've only been happening for seven years, it would be really odd for either Charlie or Vaggie to not have that information.
Plus, considering how much discourse on the exterminations as an allegory for real life violence there is in the fanbase, it would be insane to justify Heaven's actions like that retroactively.

3 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 148

Jesse Golo

Between hearing that apparently season 3 of Hazbin Hotel is what the writers have really been wanting to write and the way season 2 ended, I wonder if that means in season 3, we're actually gonna have Charlie try to redeem someone without being an idiot about it. Better extremely late than never, I guess. Can you imagine a season of this show where trying to redeem someone is the main focus? Though with Lute being a thing, I'm sure we're gonna get more war.
Honestly, looking back on how she behaved in season 1 is kinda baffling. She really wanted everyone to support her trying to do something no one had ever done before and that she had no idea how to accomplish. If exterminations are really only seven years old, then sinners had at least 9,993 years to try and be better and failed. At if you want to blame someone, it might unironically be her Mom's fault for letting hell be like that. I would have laughed at her too.

4 days ago | [YT] | 680

Jesse Golo

I was gonna talk about something else this week, but then I got caught up in how well designed a character Vaggie is for a show like Hazbin Hotel, to the point I think she might be the best character concept Vivziepop's created. And then I got caught up in thinking about how much that potential has gone wasted. So this week's video is gonna be on the most wasted character in Hazbin Hotel.
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Which Thumbnail do you think is better? (I couldn't figure out how to cross out the 'e' and make it look good, so I just made it red)

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6 days ago | [YT] | 134

Jesse Golo

I was looking at my video, paused on this and the image is so funny to me for some reason.

6 days ago | [YT] | 349

Jesse Golo

I'm editing my latest video, and I saw this and thought, "Wait, Carmilla killed one exorcist. Where did the other four go?"
Like, it would have been less work to only draw one, why draw five?

6 days ago | [YT] | 107

Jesse Golo

So, the way I see it, one of two things happened here: They either didn't watch the video and don't know what my criticism was about, or they did watch the video, realized they couldn't actually defend the show, and defaulted to pointing out that Charlie has a character arc as a lackluster defense.
Goes without saying, but do not look for or harass this person.

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