#sota: oh hey; alicetaria is fucking shit up hard on false information

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Re:Creators through ep 10

Continues to be a really frustrating show, but more in that it's not to my taste than objectively bad writing. Or rather, I can't tell if it's bad writing, or the worlds' median IQ is actually a lot lower than I previously thought? The indubitably good: As a pure speculation exercise, looking at the practical and logistical ways things might shake out. The conversations between the working adults from our world (the artists, the government workers). Unfortunately everyone else (except Mahane) is holding various sizes of idiot ball. The core of the show is debates and fights, debates and fights, debates and fights. And they are entirely driven by stupidly willful mismatches and denials of information and knowledge. The show eventually got around to addressing many of the things I was uneasy about in my previous post (though not a key one, fictional characters having fiction in their own worlds). But it did so in an almost comically slow way, such that characters are literally getting killed because they haven't thought of objections that were blindingly obvious to me in the first four episodes (or in real time, less than two hours). Or worse (fuck you Souta you fucking useless piece of shit, secondarily FUCK YOU Alicetaria your head is EMPTY goddamn), they refuse to tell everyone, anyone the things that might prevented all of this. I almost can't believe the same writers responsible for writing the conversations between the adult artists, as well as Mahane's twisting turns of phrase, are also writing these terrible excuses for debates. I can also see that they're doing it because only fully immature characters could execute the violent plot turns that they want to happen. But this doesn't feel like Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, the inevitable end result of compelling characters' personalities and values clashing, it's ironically the whim of the author-god withholding nuanced interaction in order to hack those bloodsprays into existence. Maybe Alicetaria is only popular for her character design, and her canon characterization is horrible writing, and that's why she's so mentally deficient. No excuse for Souta, though. Oh, and they still didn't explain how/where they pulled that "here's how the world will end" theory from (the ether idk). Altair and Meteora somehow did it independently, at that!