Uzi, the girl that once massacred her own classmates that one time, is just proudly let back to be a student in the colony?, do I also need to mention she constantly uses her newfound solver bat powers around everyone else, knowing full well what that is capable of.
Okay, I know I said I was leaving but fuck it, I'm not gonna have this discussion anywhere else, because nobody wants to. The wider public just seems to be completely content to ignore everything wrong with the show.
To be fair, Uzi wasn't exactly in her right mind when she did those things and she seemed to deeply regret it afterwards. HOWEVER, she did pretty much immediately forgive and even fall in love with one of those people that presumably killed hundreds of them. So she's not off the hook either.
You're completely right about everything else though and none of the others even seem to show any kind of regret for the atrocities they committed. Don't forget too that they also presumably slaughtered hundreds of humans too if you remember the flashback scene from Episode 7.
Hell there's even a theory floating around the fandom that the human race was wiped out as in Episode 6 we're shown that the Solver destroyed multiple planets and space colonies of humans. Saw it on various websites and even the comments section of some episodes and as of now we have no clue how accurate that is since we haven't seen a single real human throughout the duration of the series. (Episode 5 was weird memory shit so I don't count it. Humans have literally only ever shown up in flashbacks.)
Honestly I'd argue the DDs especially N are worse here. N pretty much gleefully went along with presumably slaughtering hundreds of humans and worker drones because... uhhhh the company told us to? I guess? We don't know the exact specifics of how everything went down but I do genuinely wonder how Cyn justified slaughtering PEOPLE to N and V. We know J knew what was up from the start but it's heavily implied the other two were manipulated and we know Cyn selectively deletes or manipulates their memories or some shit.
In Episode 1 the lie was something about the company needing them to destroy potentially infected drones to stop a virus from spreading.
So it just makes me wonder like what she told them to get them to slaughter humans beforehand.
And unlike Uzi's case they don't get as much leeway because it's never once implied they lost control of themselves like Uzi did, they willingly went around slaughtering innocent people because someone told them to and they never questioned it I guess until N fell for the "goth gf" meme or some bullshit.
Honestly V was probably the most annoying case for me simply because as you said there were people even cheering it when none of it felt earned in the slightest. Again it literally takes like 1 episodes for her to go from hating everyone else to basically dying for them with no real buildup or anything. And revealing that she actually survived imo was even worse than her just dying too because at least in death there'd be some redemption for her.
And yeah J should've just died. I have no additions to make to that point.
But yeah N literally just said "I'm sorry." and everyone just forgave him and that was it, hell in Episode 4 I think it was? The other drones were basically lusting after him and V. Fuck they treated those two better than fucking Uzi like... what? They treated these two basically monsters that presumably killed hundreds of them better than one of their own classmates???
EDIT: Oh yeah don't forget too that girl Cyn killed and skinned was the one that saved her ass from the trash dump and was like the one human that treated her like a person. Same goes for the others too, N, V, J. J being completely okay with that is extra heinous given their seeming friendship displayed in Episode 5.
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The worst part is if you bring ANY of this up to any of the rest of the fandom they either just ignore you or give you some bullshit excuse for it.
Though to be fair it's not the first time I've seen this and probably won't be the last time.
Like yeah blah blah blah at the end of the day they're fictional characters none of it matters. But it's still pretty irritating to see people just completely excuse or ignore the character's crimes like this because it kind of just serves in aiding this feeling that this ending wasn't at all earned.
That being said I don't think I really have anything else to say. I just couldn't resist because you brought up some good points that sadly nobody else is going to. I think I've vented thoroughly however.
The other thing that sucks is most people assume I'm arguing in bad faith or something or that I wanted to see the series fail and was intentionally looking for problems simply for noticing them but the truth is I really wanted to like this series and see it succeed. I wanted to see it possibly improve, but instead I'd argue it degraded with each passing episode which is a fucking shame. And the worst part of it all is that with a few tweaks it could've been "Alright." not amazing, but "Alright." and that's all it probably needed to be. But instead we got a pretty looking but ultimately dogshit show.
Again it's a very special kind of frustration because they were THIS CLOSE and they fumbled the bag hard.
