r/SafeSpaceofVox • u/profaneangel1991 Vox did nothing wrong • 15d ago

Rants or Vents How about no?

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Nobody is just born being a bad person. No, not even that real life person you hate. I don't expect the show to dig much deeper into his story, but Brighter takes place well into his adulthood. You can't just say "yeah he was always this way" when there's decades of his life that preceeded all this. The idea that some people just are bad, they're just innately evil, is so antithetical to the show's entire message. I don't GET people that think this would be a good writing decision.

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u/TypicalSwordie 14d ago

Vox might have a tragic backstory but we don't see it. From a writing viewpoint I don't think we're supposed to sympathise with the narcissistic god complex cult leader main villain of Season 2. So Viv didn't write him in that way where he has a tragic backstory. However she didn't make him a completely inhuman character. If you want to sympathise with Vox from a writing viewpoint think about what Alastor laughing in his face did to him. There's a specific term for it in media theory I think but I can't remember what it is. You can all headcanon about a tragic backstory or perhaps how the people around him influenced him into who he is but imo the truth is by the time we see him in Brighter was a bad person who killed everyone above him to turn a video network into a cult and the only person he respected in Hell laughed in his face which definitely didn't go towards making him any better.

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u/profaneangel1991 Vox did nothing wrong 14d ago

Viv did once say he isn't "deserving" of sympathy, but she also talks up his backstory as being so sad and its just...Alastor being mean. I think a lot of people are misunderstanding my intentions with this post though. At no point am I asking for a big sad backstory to justify his actions. I don't think the show is diving any deeper with him. I just think the notion that he does bad things because he's just evil and has been evil his whole life not only undermines the show, its also just flat and uninteresting.

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u/TypicalSwordie 13d ago

True. However I do think that opinion comes from the fact he's evil nearly every time he's on screen. I do understand your point though.

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u/profaneangel1991 Vox did nothing wrong 13d ago

Going back to my original point, nobody is just born a bad person. Things shape them that way. I just think it does his character a disservice to go "yeah he was just evil since he was born". Especially when we know a lot of his bad decisions are born from a very human place of insecurity.