It just reminded me of the anger I felt playing through FFXIV's stormblood whilst my country strived for rebellion at the time (subsiquently thwarted later) for largely the same reasons.
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Both are wrong and silly for creating a heirarchy for the quality at which you can participate/despense rebellion.
Plus, the show just doesn't have room for more nuance while it tries to fit many seasons of work in one, but it certainly could've, otherwise this feels incomplete at best.
Cinta's death definitley put me on edge for the rest of the show but I think seeing a buncha white folk in hanboks and kimonos in a wedding between toothless western styled politicking kept me entirely on the defensive real early on (I could certainly have been wrong to think all this)
My expectiations not being met but they are infact not the same as that of the core american and global western audience. So it is often that I find myself hyper aware of current world politics to enjoy the overt and over simplifiction of some of this. A few parts are nice but are weak as a whole.
Mm, I think I accepted the abstraction of its politics from season 1 when Aldhani was a slice of the Highland Clearances in Scotland. Which like, is a great backdrop to colour in detail, but it’s of course an illusion, a war game of history turned into a few episodes of spacey wacey shooty boots.
The abstraction is also much less cluttered in S1, whereas S2 had a struggle between similar storytelling rubbing up against events they needed to take place running up to Rogue One. It looks more complex, but I don’t think it is nor has to be. If that makes any sense, pain meds asdfjhk
Yeah;;;; sorry stormblood had like very specific things and many messes in the middle FR (gosh what a headace)
I agree, and I still think there is some really great stuff messaging wise in there even if it is all over the place, it helps that the actors offering compelling preformances too.
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Plus, the show just doesn't have room for more nuance while it tries to fit many seasons of work in one, but it certainly could've, otherwise this feels incomplete at best.
However I do think the sore spot a la Cinta felt pretty cheap, and I think they underestimated the context greatly.
BUUUUT yeah, if I had to say anything about S2 it’s that it was really doing a LOT in a single season.
And that means how it conveys its messages is far more prone to troublesome ideas that breathe through the actions of its characters.
I agree, and I still think there is some really great stuff messaging wise in there even if it is all over the place, it helps that the actors offering compelling preformances too.
deary me