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A recent scene from Umbrella Academy 3

With my sibling there on the left, Five on the right.

Five: Which means I’m retiring.

Day: No the fuck you aren’t, old man!!

This is a gift to them, which they have the picture lol-

my god. can people not be insufferable and miserable about this show for five minutes??? glanced at twitter and it’s a shitshow over there. people are already claiming that the s4 preview is bait. can y’all not wait until you watch it first? 😭

haven’t been active in the rykter fandom in awhile, but i’ve seen quite a lot of opinions floating around on here & twt that i had quite a lot of thoughts about!

someone said the show is queerbaiting… and i genuinely cannot believe how anyone can see a character figuring out his queer identity and only see the matherik ship & dumb it down to queerbaiting.

edit: i want to clarify this part i said on queerbaiting because i didn’t articulate my thoughts in depth. at the end of season 2, mathias initiated a kiss with erik ultimately implying his queer identity. and his season 3 storyline has confirmed him as a queer character, who is crushing on erik & struggling with acceptance whilst getting bullied by his ex-best friend. however, erik’s pov is open to interpretation, which leaves a lot of space for fan theories (that i eat tf up) but at the moment, that’s all they are. fan theories. erik’s actions can be interpreted as both platonic & non-platonic, and i don’t see the show dangling matherik in the audiences faces. since they’re very focused on mathias’ story and his perspective rather than erik’s. whose own story seems to focus on him hanging around the wrong crowd and his questionable behaviour. it leaves the storyline open to go down two very different routes: erik could have his own queer realisation and the two of them eventually end up together. or mathias’ has unrequited feelings for his straight (or aro 👀) friend but those feelings helped him with his own queer journey to acceptance. and i think with how they’ve set erik up, it could genuinely go either way and make sense.

^^ that’s why i believe the queerbaiting claims are a stretch.

it’s become very clear why people began watching rykter: matherik. but people NEED to remember that the show is not solely about them. it never has been. this show is about the chaotic lives of ‘sheltered’ (i can’t think of the word i’m after) teenagers who all have the capability to be stupid, immature and selfish. which yes, includes felix as one of those characters and yes, includes erik as a teenager capable of being a bad person at times.

these teenagers are also all (well almost all) capable of redemption. mathias has proved his own ability to be redeemed after his s1 antics, erik will surely have his own redemption path regarding his current s3 antics and thea is currently having her redemption this season. just because erik has been generally good in the first two seasons, doesn’t mean he isn’t prone to poor decision making & shitty actions. remember: they’re all 15-16 years old.

i’ve seen a few people suggest that the rykter writers are ‘getting off’ on or ‘enjoying’ the homophobic abuse that mathias has been subjected to, but i think that’s a massive stretch. and an extremely poor outlook on the shows writing in my opinion. many people forget that even though norway is a progressive country that homophobic shitheads still exist. and the way mathias is being treated by someone as horrible as felix & no one saying anything due to being ‘sheltered’ followers is quite real.

and when someone as jealous, hateful & spiteful as felix who clearly puts up with his own share of prejudice gets to put someone else down (someone who he also feels ‘betrayed’ by), he’ll jump at that opportunity in an attempt to make himself better and stronger. from victim -> perpetrator. i understand the frustration around this season focusing on felix quite a lot but people need to stop seeing his storyline as ways to ‘excuse’ his actions and moreso to explain them & simply SHOW his life. they seem pretty hellbent on showing you that he’s a shitty person regardless of his home life & personal issues.

anyways rant over! time to disappear again lol. feel free to disagree with anything i said. always happy to have a discussion!

i really hope that later in the series, erik gets called out for being an obvious bystander to felix and the boys’, mostly felix’s, borderline bullying. from not standing up for mathias to continuing to associate with the boys despite how they treat olivia; who he hooks up with (from the episode descriptions), his complacency is very poor from him!

might have to be a bit of a party pooper rn but i think people (mostly on twt) are forgetting that erik didn’t beat that one guy to a pulp to ‘protect’ or ‘stand up’ against them. they found out he was the one who reported them, they jumped him & erik fought back in self defence.

people seemed baffled that erik wasn’t beating up felix right then and there but he wouldn’t do that straight away. i think a more accurate comparison is how he defended mathias at the party (end of s2) when no one else did and how he’s incredibly passive here now that he’s ’friends’ with felix in comparison. he would have and should have stepped in between them the same way that olivia did. or at least shoved felix back.

with the context of the second episode, it’s just so much worse now that erik witnessed all of that and has the audacity to later ask mathias “so i can’t be friends with you if im hanging out with felix?”

omg… i have so many thoughts. but above all else, mathias get behind me!

have we ever considered the possibility that the answer erik wasn’t hoping to hear was that mathias had feelings for him & erik is the one who rejects him? 😔

I’d cry. I’d bawl. Just..

i can’t even

Considering the possibility that Crowley doesn’t have yellow eyes during this sequence. 🙃