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scattered-winter · 2 years

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the sheer amount of angst potential in carmen sandiego is INSANE

like. they’re fighting against a criminal organization that is so secret and covert, literally nobody knows about it (except ACME but they’ve been trying to find them for 20 years and turned up with nothing, so without Carmen’s intervention they probably never would have defeated them), but its roots are in LITERALLY every country. there are canonically VILE operatives that run nations and supercompanies. like. when you really get into it, VILE is ASTRONOMICALLY powerful. and the only people who both know about it and can actively fight against it are a handful of teenagers.

also like. the mindwiping thing??!!? it’s a kid’s show so it wasn’t really explored in depth but the implications are HORRIFYING. if they can wipe someone’s mind, they can completely rewrite a personality, or create sleeper agents left and right. they could kidnap random people off the streets, brainwash them, and then have an army of drones with the drop of a keyword. they manipulate and train their operatives to steal and kill without remorse or hesitation, and honestly the only reason why all the main characters made it through the show alive and unscathed was because of the rating because if it was a tv-14 or tv-ma rating, there’s no way everyone would have survived that shit

#like. god i could go on about this for hours honestly #when you think about the sheer SCALE of vile's reach and how long it must have taken for 4 teenagers to systematically dismantle such a huge #organization #and they had help at the end! they had more allies and even acme helped out a little bit #but for such a long time it was just those 4 kids against the entire fucking world #because that's how far vile's reach was #they literally had their hands in EVERYTHING.#ONE OF THE BIGGEST OPERATIVES WAS ONE OF THE HEADS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT #and i'm SURE roundabout wasn't the only one in positions of power #like. g o d #they were literally 4 kids against the world how fucked up is that #they couldn't trust ANYONE or anything because if they did they were risking each other's lives #and PLAYER #like #if he makes a mistake. if he's a second too slow. if his intel is even just slightly off. his friends die #UGH i just #there's so much angst potential stored in this show and y'all KNOW i'm gonna explore it all because that's what i do best in fandom #anyway not to get emotional about kids shows again. <3 #winter speaks #carmen sandiego

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