I nearly stopped after episode 1 because the main character who is from the exploited undercity just willingly becomes a cop after a 30 second internal debate about how they killed her parents

And then the cops gas the entirety of said undercity to look for one person and this is just ok for some reason

And then the message of “the one (Russian coded!) person giving out free healthcare and trying to create a better society is just actually just injecting magic gene changing spookiness into their bodies to make an assimilation cult”

In the last episode it’s fully mask off. Victor tells Jace “choice is an illusion” but of course he can’t actually say “choice is an illusion because systematic oppression”, just “choices are bad because people make bad choices”. Then the message of “there’s no point trying to create a perfect society because then we wouldn’t have anything to struggle for”???

I haven’t even gotten to the completely bewildering character choices, glaring holes in the plot, and totally unexplained (and inexplicable) magic system

Insert “the swerve” article here I guess. Of course I should have expected no better from a Riot production but it was infuriating that they spent all that money and splurged all that incredible artistic talent making this piece of crap

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[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

something that pissed me off about that show is that the society was so class and race based but somehow this didnt apply to the upper echelons of power, which was multi racial and multi cultural and multi species. they even went as far as to give the black people british accents. if this shit was being realistic we all know it would have been nothing but white men in power, making all the decisions, and all the characters in the show who are PoC or gay or whatever would be living down in the sewers

it just makes zero sense for world building that such a bigoted society would look like that

i had the same problem with handmaid’s tale too. you know those mfs would have been white supremacists. its not woke to erase that fact in these stories and fill spots with minorities that make no sense. woke would be depicting the actual prejudice and racism of societies like this, because without prejudice and racism those societies couldnt exist

[–] niph@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

It was so weird for them to just be like “the normal axes of oppression don’t exist here, instead just focus on economic oppression! But also we won’t solve that, either”