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So, I recently watched The Midnight Club and I saw a lot of people say that they don't like Ilonka and I get it. She doesn't make the best of decisions, but she is also a dying teen who is just trying to make the best of it.
I never disliked Ilonka for making bad decisions. It actually made sense for someone in her position and there is no guarantee I would not have done the same.
But it did annoy me that she never faces any consequences for it. Like when Sandra strikes out with Spence she makes up for it with her story …we see that she actually feels bad about it but when Ilonka is reprimanded by Stanton for the right reasons she gets angry and initially it was understandable, but we never see her realizing that it was still wrong to take Anya down to the basement no matter how she felt about it. When Sandra admitted to that intercom prank, we see the other characters looking somewhat pissed though they warm back up to her later but with Ilonka when she tells them about the murder ritual with Julia Jayne they all seem unaffected by it. We never see her feeling bad for being unreasonably rude to Katherine, in the moment I understood her, but we should have seen her regretting lashing out and I know she apologizes to Kevin but what she said to Katherine did not sit right with me...coz Katherine seemed like a genuinely nice person. We never see Tim's reaction to the ritual either though it was implied that Stanton discussed it with him. He wouldn't have yelled at Ilonka but he would have still talked to her about it. She should have acknowledged that taking herself and her other sick friends to an unclean basement full of mold and whatnot (as Sandra tells her) was wrong.
So, I think a lot of people disliked Ilonka not for making bad decisions but because she never took accountability for it especially when the other characters did. I feel like that would have added depth to her character.... her realizing that though she was smart she was not always right. Maybe they would have dealt with that in season 2 but I don't know.
Also Fuck cults and fuck cultists for manipulating and taking advantage of vulnerable people.