Pretty good story, told in a pretty rubbish way.
It was told in flashback with a framing story. It was like the whole story flinched and it got told in the most distant possible way. It's difficult to have a feels about it when it's both trying not to have them and detailing at some length exactly which variety of sentiments one should have by the end, in voiceover, as a letter to someone who will never get it (awwww)(:eyeroll:).
On the other hand, these three stories together are all about trade offs, sacrifice, saving the many by losing the few. They poke at it a lot, which ways are heroic and voluntary and which are, well, stupid, and which are actually evil. It's an interesting theme set with a theoretically good conclusion, it's just told really poorly this one time.
My face is mostly puzzled face right now, because why did they do that the rubbish way?
It was told in flashback with a framing story. It was like the whole story flinched and it got told in the most distant possible way. It's difficult to have a feels about it when it's both trying not to have them and detailing at some length exactly which variety of sentiments one should have by the end, in voiceover, as a letter to someone who will never get it (awwww)(:eyeroll:).
On the other hand, these three stories together are all about trade offs, sacrifice, saving the many by losing the few. They poke at it a lot, which ways are heroic and voluntary and which are, well, stupid, and which are actually evil. It's an interesting theme set with a theoretically good conclusion, it's just told really poorly this one time.
My face is mostly puzzled face right now, because why did they do that the rubbish way?