Small correction: we've actually got two seasons left!
That's probably why I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater just yet re: Stella's potential. I have a feeling we're going to be getting some backstory for her soon (iirc Viv mentioned it in an interview) and I think you're right on the money that a lot of her behavior is going to be tied to the resentment and lack of control she has in her situation.
I didn't get the impression Octavia believes Stolas takes antidepressants because he hates her. The way I interpreted it was that (despite her verbally claiming otherwise) she knows Stolas loves her, but the reality she's being confronted with is that, despite her father's claim that she's the happiest thing that's happened to him, that alone wasn't enough to assuage his own misery. The antidepressants were evidence of that misery, and with or without taking them, he was still miserable even with Octavia in his life.
To be clear: I don't think this is a sound or "fair" logic on her part, and I don't think it's supposed to be. But from Octavia's perspective, as a child born out of royal obligation, caught in the middle of a divorce between two parents who never loved each other (and she's known this, she's implied in Loo Loo Land to have known this long before their divorce), who's been proven "right" about her father's happiness with a total stranger superseding the happiness he has with her--it makes an unfortunate amount of sense. It's a flawed logic that doesn't take into account Stolas's own struggles and nuances, but I think everything presented in the show has built up to this moment.
I don't think this necessarily means Octavia is going to throw herself into her mother's arms and take her side, either--she's seen firsthand how gleefully horrible she and Andrealphus are, she's seen what a danger her uncle is and the inevitable consequence of her having retaliated against him she's going to face (my current prediction is she's going to avoid that altogether by fleeing from her family and using the Grimoire to go to the human world and live a new life there in human form).
That said, if I'm wrong and she does take her mother's side, I think she'll be staying with her not because she thinks Stella's "right" (again, she's witnessed how Stella actively sabotaged Stolas's attempts at reaching out to her), but because--and this is going into total, not-supported-by-text speculation on my part--she takes a sort of comfort in the straightforward narrative of her outwardly, predictably awful mother versus the messier, complicated one of her loving but flawed father.
Wouldn't worry about the future of Millie/Moxxie and Asmodeus/Fizzarolli. I imagine there's going to be tension and struggles between them--but their strengths as couples are undeniably going to win out in the end. :) (They wouldn't be making so much merch of them saying things like "couple goals" otherwise!)
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That's probably why I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater just yet re: Stella's potential. I have a feeling we're going to be getting some backstory for her soon (iirc Viv mentioned it in an interview) and I think you're right on the money that a lot of her behavior is going to be tied to the resentment and lack of control she has in her situation.
I didn't get the impression Octavia believes Stolas takes antidepressants because he hates her. The way I interpreted it was that (despite her verbally claiming otherwise) she knows Stolas loves her, but the reality she's being confronted with is that, despite her father's claim that she's the happiest thing that's happened to him, that alone wasn't enough to assuage his own misery. The antidepressants were evidence of that misery, and with or without taking them, he was still miserable even with Octavia in his life.
To be clear: I don't think this is a sound or "fair" logic on her part, and I don't think it's supposed to be. But from Octavia's perspective, as a child born out of royal obligation, caught in the middle of a divorce between two parents who never loved each other (and she's known this, she's implied in Loo Loo Land to have known this long before their divorce), who's been proven "right" about her father's happiness with a total stranger superseding the happiness he has with her--it makes an unfortunate amount of sense. It's a flawed logic that doesn't take into account Stolas's own struggles and nuances, but I think everything presented in the show has built up to this moment.
I don't think this necessarily means Octavia is going to throw herself into her mother's arms and take her side, either--she's seen firsthand how gleefully horrible she and Andrealphus are, she's seen what a danger her uncle is and the inevitable consequence of her having retaliated against him she's going to face (my current prediction is she's going to avoid that altogether by fleeing from her family and using the Grimoire to go to the human world and live a new life there in human form).
That said, if I'm wrong and she does take her mother's side, I think she'll be staying with her not because she thinks Stella's "right" (again, she's witnessed how Stella actively sabotaged Stolas's attempts at reaching out to her), but because--and this is going into total, not-supported-by-text speculation on my part--she takes a sort of comfort in the straightforward narrative of her outwardly, predictably awful mother versus the messier, complicated one of her loving but flawed father.
Wouldn't worry about the future of Millie/Moxxie and Asmodeus/Fizzarolli. I imagine there's going to be tension and struggles between them--but their strengths as couples are undeniably going to win out in the end. :) (They wouldn't be making so much merch of them saying things like "couple goals" otherwise!)