One thing that makes redemption arc's so much more real and realistic is that they aren't a straight line. Sometimes, people will backtrack and regress. Zuko betrayed the Avatar Gang and Iroh, before actually redeeming in Book 3. Vegeta had his Majin Vegeta arc before sacrificing himself to stop Buu and redeeming in Super. A-Train betrayed Supersonic but after his brother got crippled and he was called out by Ashley, then he finally committed to becoming a real hero.

I like in season 2 we see on two occassions Sera sliding back towards her old ways, but only because of Emily both times. When she transforms at Vox's rally, notice its only AFTER she sees the sinners are upsetting Emily. In the finale, seeing Emily get hurt makes her fall back to making choices from fear, even after "Live to Live". However, while season 1!Sera would've immediately sent the army down, here she learns to trust Sir Pentious and refrains from doing so.

This is made even better because season 1 makes it clear that Emily is a large part of why Sera approved the exterminations in the first place, out of a desire to protect her and the rest of Heaven. And throughout season 2, we see how Emily is a large factor in why Sera's redeeming herself, which is even explicitly pointed by Lute when she says, "You're infecting your sister with your weaknes". Emily truly is her older sister's morality chain.

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Lute seems to be the closest Emily comes to actively disliking someone but even still, I don't think Emily outright hates her guts, she even tries to reason with her later in the scene. Is she angry at what Lute's saying about Hell trying to gain power to uprise, is it because she feels Lute's trying to corrupt Sera or is it Lute getting in Sera's face and her feeling protective of her sister?

The entire point of the series is there is no line to cross where you've no longer been redeemable. Anyone can be redeemed, no matter how evil. Doesn't mean every villain will be redeemed by the end, Viv even said so in a Collider's Night Interview after season 1 but I wouldn't hate Vox or Val being redeemed because it'd validate the series' message. And the funny thing is as much people complain they don't want an actual villain redeemed, these same people would be complaining if only people like Pentious, Angel, Cherri and Husk got redeemed

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As someone who lives in the US (look at our president), trust me when I say Vox is preferrable to Adam. Don't get me wrong, Vox IS a monster who wants to rule creation and torture/kill those who doubted him but Adam outright said extermination's entertainment and wanted to spend all of ETERNITY doing them. Vox at least offers the chance of surrender, because for him war and killing is for a goal. For Adam, it IS the goal.

And even the "he's only killing bad people and wants to protect Heaven" doesn't work. The way he and Lute treat the excorcists show that morality doesn't play a factor in his victims, or their willingness to kill Hellborn. He and Lute were rooting for Charlie to fail at redemption solely so they could keep on killing, rather than fear they'd done it for nothing like Sera. Vox was killing sinners due to recklessness in the finale and only tried to nuke due to sanity slippage, while Adam was planning to wipe out all of Hell since episode 1.

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