So I've only watched through ep 13, but I can't really get into this. Like, the trailer was incredible, and the action fights are amazing. Really, I just want to watch a lot of grappling hook sky-surfing giant slashing, but they keep putting all this weird stuff in there. The whole story/characters are just weird. It's all just one giant oozing existential crisis. The angst drains out everything else.
And i don't really care about violence in my cartoons (like i said, ideally this series would be dudes flying and slashing, nothing more), but when it tries to moralize, glorify, and justify the violence then it gets weird. "oh, a mantis ate a moth, therefore killing is always justified" some kind of reverse Jainism going on here. Like, characters killing things, who cares it's a tv show. But making moral arguments through the character's actions elevates the relevance of the violence and how it's being presented. Suddenly it's not just cool animation, but it's about influencing my worldview and how i see real people/situations in real life.
I'm pretty sure the author just read a bunch of Nietzsche and decided to build a fantasy story around it.
or maybe I should leave the lit crit out of the cartoons.
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Originally Posted by Pandadice
