Sep 21, 2024 3:16 PM
Revisions - Finished
Anime Relations: Revisions
I am going to start off by saying the beginning and ending of the series is good, but everything that comes between is a narrative mess.
First, adults make incompetent decisions that make absolutely no sense.
- The adults trust the enemy that attacked them over the stranger that saved them, which in turn is why Keisaku's mom is taken, why he ends up sacrificing himself and why the ending ends up happening in the end.
- They never prioritized energy consumption despite being in a time of crisis, leading to the puppets having a limited amount of time to fight towards the end.
Second, Daisuke is played up too much in the narrative.
- He's the hero designated by Milo, "because" narrative reasons.
- His birthday is there to serve as angst.
- He doesn't get any growth as a character until Keisaku's hero sacrifice and even then it takes a bit of time to come around.
Third, the humans of the future don't make sense.
- Apparently they were expecting the humans to be prejudice against the Revisions because of how they looked, despite the fact that logic shouldn't even be needed (consider it more adult incompetence that makes no sense). The Revisions, after all, kidnapped them, killed some of the students.
- I'm left with some level of confusion regarding whether the ancestors of the Revisions are needed or not. The snow never clarified. I'm guessing if the times were stabalized together forever, that it wouldn't matter that their ancestors died.
- The Revisions use the machines they do because of their bloated bodies, but the question is, who would have even made the machines in the first place, when the merciful thing to do would to have let the bloated on, rather than building machines to them.
Forth, whether or not Revisions are human constantly ignores the fact the Revisions are killing humans, as if that is a non-issue, because apparently the show wanted to try and push this idea of absolute pacisim, that killing is absolutely wrong 100% of the time, at least for the good guys, while the bad guys don't have to have such strong moral comes despite the fact most would understand the matter as not being a black and white one, although they did pick the right character to run with the POV from. Problem is, nobody ever challenged some of her train of thought, she was forced to face someone actually getting hurt before she changed her mind, which doesn't make sense.
First, adults make incompetent decisions that make absolutely no sense.
- The adults trust the enemy that attacked them over the stranger that saved them, which in turn is why Keisaku's mom is taken, why he ends up sacrificing himself and why the ending ends up happening in the end.
- They never prioritized energy consumption despite being in a time of crisis, leading to the puppets having a limited amount of time to fight towards the end.
Second, Daisuke is played up too much in the narrative.
- He's the hero designated by Milo, "because" narrative reasons.
- His birthday is there to serve as angst.
- He doesn't get any growth as a character until Keisaku's hero sacrifice and even then it takes a bit of time to come around.
Third, the humans of the future don't make sense.
- Apparently they were expecting the humans to be prejudice against the Revisions because of how they looked, despite the fact that logic shouldn't even be needed (consider it more adult incompetence that makes no sense). The Revisions, after all, kidnapped them, killed some of the students.
- I'm left with some level of confusion regarding whether the ancestors of the Revisions are needed or not. The snow never clarified. I'm guessing if the times were stabalized together forever, that it wouldn't matter that their ancestors died.
- The Revisions use the machines they do because of their bloated bodies, but the question is, who would have even made the machines in the first place, when the merciful thing to do would to have let the bloated on, rather than building machines to them.
Forth, whether or not Revisions are human constantly ignores the fact the Revisions are killing humans, as if that is a non-issue, because apparently the show wanted to try and push this idea of absolute pacisim, that killing is absolutely wrong 100% of the time, at least for the good guys, while the bad guys don't have to have such strong moral comes despite the fact most would understand the matter as not being a black and white one, although they did pick the right character to run with the POV from. Problem is, nobody ever challenged some of her train of thought, she was forced to face someone actually getting hurt before she changed her mind, which doesn't make sense.
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