Killjoys season 2
Aug. 16th, 2017 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethWatched all of season 2 in 2 days.
... still needs more women.
and less of that 'asshole dad secretly had reasons' semi redemption arc for abusers
like, really, every maladjust has his reasons, do we have to focus on that part?
i mean I'm all for actual redemption arcs that start with 'shit i did bad things that was bad'
but this fucked up faux thing where he had reasons? forget it.
also I'm sick of the story where a soldier just following orders is supposed to be an excuse
i don't care what sci fi or fantasy premise they wrap around it, that isn't the story that needs telling
you always have a choice. you don't always have a good choice, but you have a choice. I'm really creeped out by the media trend to tell it as if choice was some rare quality reserved for magic protagonists.
that sounds like I didn't like the show. I actually still like it. I just disliked these cornerstones of it.
when it's being twisty and political and involves people making free willed choices in attempts to achieve their goals, then it's good.
the more it leans on assorted means of saying people had no choice? the more it's forgettable.
it divides their world into players, with at least some free will left, and pawns, who can only act when others push the buttons. and that's really thoroughly wrong.
but hey, interesting characters, twisty world, stuff to watch.
also, from a science fiction point of view, the inconsistent application of local tech level just... it makes very little sense. if one guy was modded to be immortal, then immortality is within the reach of humanity. if one guy has a matter printer, it makes it real difficult to explain why they don't live in a post replicator society, though he did have a bigger energy supply than pretty much anyone. if they've got androids that can pass for human then why do they have prostheses that can't? if they've got AI that can want kissing and run around being snarky at each other then why aren't AI closer to being citizens, or any significant part of the plot? why mention that someone too extensively modded isn't legally a person, and then do nothing with that?
how can their society exist, given the technology they repeatedly demonstrate?
they don't answer that, so they make messes of their setup.
but the running around doing politics and rebellion stuff is interesting to watch, so, there's that.
... still needs more women.
and less of that 'asshole dad secretly had reasons' semi redemption arc for abusers
like, really, every maladjust has his reasons, do we have to focus on that part?
i mean I'm all for actual redemption arcs that start with 'shit i did bad things that was bad'
but this fucked up faux thing where he had reasons? forget it.
also I'm sick of the story where a soldier just following orders is supposed to be an excuse
i don't care what sci fi or fantasy premise they wrap around it, that isn't the story that needs telling
you always have a choice. you don't always have a good choice, but you have a choice. I'm really creeped out by the media trend to tell it as if choice was some rare quality reserved for magic protagonists.
that sounds like I didn't like the show. I actually still like it. I just disliked these cornerstones of it.
when it's being twisty and political and involves people making free willed choices in attempts to achieve their goals, then it's good.
the more it leans on assorted means of saying people had no choice? the more it's forgettable.
it divides their world into players, with at least some free will left, and pawns, who can only act when others push the buttons. and that's really thoroughly wrong.
but hey, interesting characters, twisty world, stuff to watch.
also, from a science fiction point of view, the inconsistent application of local tech level just... it makes very little sense. if one guy was modded to be immortal, then immortality is within the reach of humanity. if one guy has a matter printer, it makes it real difficult to explain why they don't live in a post replicator society, though he did have a bigger energy supply than pretty much anyone. if they've got androids that can pass for human then why do they have prostheses that can't? if they've got AI that can want kissing and run around being snarky at each other then why aren't AI closer to being citizens, or any significant part of the plot? why mention that someone too extensively modded isn't legally a person, and then do nothing with that?
how can their society exist, given the technology they repeatedly demonstrate?
they don't answer that, so they make messes of their setup.
but the running around doing politics and rebellion stuff is interesting to watch, so, there's that.