>>119556512Same thing for Blitzo.
He already had some huge hints of wanting more, potentially sexual, with the others, but the priorities seemed to be him overcompensating for his abandonment issues. Since we get background details pointing out that he got kicked out of his family or something. Basically, he wants a family, not just a fuck.
But in this episode, he's all "fucking, I like fucking! I'd fuck a fuck if you could fuck fucks". Worse: Someone else is clearly having their own abandonment issues and he gets distracted in a typical "Donald Duck vs His Neighbor" way just to cause zanny havoc while the primary plot arc resolves itself.
I think the weakest part of the episode is actually the talk between stolas and his daughter. She does 100% of the emotional heavy lifting, by literally admitting to what was the problem in her heart. That's not how people function most of the time when they're affected enough to run away and curl up. That is specially not how someone who just 10 seconds earlier was still blaming the person they were talking to. They need to feel openness and security with what they're about to admit, and Stolas instead acted evasive and bumbling.
I'd rewrite his dialog. As it stands it does nothing for his character or for the world building. It could be so much more.
I'd make him admit that he also hasn't felt at home, but that despite that, home hasn't changed. That he never truly loved Octavia's mother and that and Octavia had been his anchor for the longest time. And that he fucked up recently. He lived a more formal life, as a prince of hell, and was tired of it, and could blame it on the debauchery of hell itself, and how he wanted a part of it. And that somewhere, in pursuing it, he forgot what mattered to him, and what had never changed. That he genuinely loves Octavia.
There. Fixed. Now he earns the forgiveness for the distance, and we get a bit more of a glimpse of the expectations of solomon demon hierarchy.
