I've seen a lot, and by 'a lot, I mean A LOT of misanthropism, the hatred for the human race, in this community.

I understand that this show first and foremost brings Queer Gen Z kids together, a group of people who have essentially been molded in suffering, so I won't blame anyone for being cynical and full of rage. I know I am. And I know, Luz Noceda would agree.

But the subtext in a lot of discussion, especially when it comes to comparing the show's Demon Realm with the Human Realm (might as well equate the latter to real life, since there is nothing in the show's Human Realm that isn't the case IRL, except for the existence of a town named Gravesfield in Connecticut, USA) is how the Demon Realm would supposedly be such a better place for audience members to live in, and how it's supposedly ironically tame and civil compared to the real world.

I get that people who say this are tortured by the real world, and want to indulge in escapism. But the show attacks that concept head-on! It's not just a commentary on fantasy as a whole, one of the central themes quite literally is escapism. Luz starts, wanting to escape to fantasy land and be a hero, but she becomes a hero through fighting through hardship and accepting reality. Belos is evil, precisely because he wants to make everyone play the role he wants them to have in his fantasy where he's the hero. Luz never once sees herself as the hero she is.

And this is a systemic issue in Western society that came with the Information Age. It seems so many people are so addicted to virtual interaction and entertainment via fiction, that they've started to devalue reality. With the entertainment industry, escapism has essentially become a commodity.

Because of this, many people l've seen are forgetting the point of fiction, equating it to alternate worlds that are real, but we can only ever dream about them.

This is not what fiction is meant for! We humans tell stories to record fundamental truths and morals that we have figured out through millenia of hardship, to pass them on. That's the whole reason archetypes, that repeat themselves across various stories, exist. (e.g. How comic book superheroes are just a modern take on legendary figures like Heracles, King Arthur, Gilgamesh etc.) Fiction is an analogy to real things which preserves their meaning, unlike historical records, which are just a preservation of the details of real things. Unlike historical records, fiction does not age. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest known stories, but it is still relevant because of its moral core, a core that will always be relevant for humanity. It is timeless moral knowledge.

The Owl House is, for the most part, a fictionalized account of Dana Terrace's life.

Every good story has a moral, and The Owl House is one of them. You aren't supposed to escape to the world the show presents, you are supposed to learn from its characters and be inspired to be a good person. To not wait for the Light to come to the darkness or to search for it, but to make the Light.

Be the Light.

Luz - (Spanish: Light)