[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I do have to concede I'm probably being rather naive here. Blind optimism has kinda always been a thing with me. These are all good points!

And honestly it’s one I wouldn’t take away from you — without that willingness to see everything through an optimistic lens I wouldn’t really have come around on a lot of things. You’ve half convinced me on Ghost; and I suspect only halfway because I haven’t found the time for a rewatch yet!

But I just... can’t see what you see in this ending. When I talk about these themes of parallels to slavery and oppression in a narrative about robots, I say so with great enthusiasm about how the middle of the show handled it but also with great disappointment in how the last stretch dropped it as quickly as it could manage. When I talk about the themes I fully embrace how the show used ideas of heart and malice to portray these struggles and our similarities, but also say so with great frustration in how it completely took over the last part of the show when that was never the main point. When I talk about these themes I do so with love for how public viewpoints on Humagears evolved in a shockingly realistic and well done way throughout the show, but ultimately got given no resolution at the end, no true change from the situation in episode 1, and no outlook towards the future of Humagears other than Aruto believing in them but even harder this time.

The true enemy in this show was always, ALWAYS how Humagears were not truly seen as people and what conflicts arose from that, but the last third seemingly wants to act like the true enemy was the Ark. And that, I think, is the worst possible direction the show could have taken.