Homura's obsession with her was just wrong on so many levels yet people worship their relationship like wtf.
The thing is, we're SUPPOSED to acknowledge that their relationship is unhealthy. Some people just failed to get the memo.
Also, back on HGS, this scene in particular:
encapsulates everything that is wrong with HGS.
To quote a comment from the person who posted the video:
Exactly what annoys me so much. Not only is it a bad real-life insert, They don't even do anything interesting with the fact that it's just a political metaphor. They just say "Old stuff bad, new stuff good" it's so pathetically 1-dimensional.
Which is how I would describe this whole show: pathetically one dimensional. As pathetically one dimensional as the show runner's politics. The metaphor they are going for doesn't even work because its heavily implied that new magic is what's corrupting the world later on in the series. so how is the metaphor supposed to be taken again? That comment I quoted was a response to this spot on comment:
She was raised on 'old magic', so maybe she feels right using it. They don't explain WHY Sage has to learn 'new magic'. They just tell her that she should just do it. They never ask her what her personal viewpoint on the matter is, or whether she wants to learn it because she wants to or because she feels pressure to do so because she gets bullied for using 'old magic'. They just cast aspersions on Sage's mother out of nowhere and we're just supposed to take that as them being in the right. What a load of shit.
This entire sequence is very similar to the "Snapdragon being groomed" scene, in that the adults feel like they're pushing their values on the kids rather than actually helping them with their actual problem. Made even worse by them basically bad mouthing Sage's mom and calling her a hypocrite. And why is she a hypocrite? Because she tried new magic
once, so now she must always like new magic because they say so? As one comment puts it:
You know the saying "don't knock it till you tried it"?
Her mom tried it
She didn't like it
She knocked it
She's not a hypocrite. She speaking from her own experience.
And like another comment points out, calling her mom a hypocrite is like saying a recovering drug addict is a hypocrite because their trying to steer their children away from drugs.
@The Demon Pimp of Razgriz The magical girl genre always had a "dark as fuck" side to it from almost since the genre's creation. Making deconstructions of the genre nearly impossible cause all you're is flipping onto it's other side. Much
like flipping a coin.
All Madoka is Urobuchi being an edgelord who haven't done any research.
A lot of magical girl shows had darker sides, yes. Even the most cutesy and traditional of magical girl shows had darker moments: Sailor Moon, Precure, and even Magical Princess Minky Momo had dark themes at certain parts, but that doesn't make them deconstructions. They were still playing the tropes of the genre completely straight otherwise.
