I'm only half way through last night's episode. Anybody else get the feeling Liam was rock hard during the beach massacre?
I got another fake voiceover session! Also, Marisha's improv style can be described by the phrase, "No, but..."
It's one thing for the story to change, it's another thing to hijack a core element of someone's character that they've been playing for years.
I find the Vax as the champion of the Raven Queen storyline as tedious and overbearing as the next guy, but Taliesin doesn't get dibs on everything gothy just because he's intent on playing a tortured, scarred character. I just wish he would have used the fact that he didn't get to complete his Raven motif as a character growth moment and moved onto something else, rather than wallowing in a pretty bland limbo for the past year or two while waiting for another chance to sell his soul to some higher or lower power.
Vex died and her joined-at-the-hip brother tried bargaining for her life and it worked. Vax didn't stop and say, "Hey Percy, I've noticed you've been cultivating something of a dour raven aesthetic for a while now, would you like to bargain for my sister's life for me pretty please? This seems like your jam". Because why would he in that situation? If you want a tidy predictable story, there's plenty of fantasy novels in the world. This is improv group storytelling, and being married to your ideas of how things are supposed to go is a surefire way to suck the life out of anything improvised.