I feel like people sometimes have a tendency to paint Inej as a little too wide-eyed and borderline naive and I feel like that's such a misread and disservice to her character, because her faith and hope for a better future isn't some misguided assumption that everything will be okay or that the world isn't so bad. She knows exactly how bad things can be and exactly what kind of evil people are capable of, and she's saying "fuck you, you can take my autonomy and my childhood and maybe I'll never see my family or home again, but I will literally die before I let make me think that the shit I've been through is all there is. The beauty and love I experienced was real and valuable and nothing you do or say will make me let go of that or believe it's not possible for me to have again," and it is genuinely the most incredible and real thing in those books.
Inej has fought tooth and nail for every ounce of goodness she has and she'll keep wringing it out of the world because those things are real and possible no matter what, and there's nothing naive about it.
using “we hereby conduct this post mortem” as promotion leading up to the album, from a song where she herself was trying to figure out how it ended, knowing full well everyone was hoping to hear every gruesome detail about how it ended…… genius
i forgot that they just let toshiro and laios keep fighting (hair pulling and all???? forgot that too) while they healed/revived people and recovered after this attack lol
my feelings towards murder at the end are largely unchanged btw. i think it's a fun watch w really great characters, i like that it called to the oa, and overall i think it was just very very straightforward abt the questions it wanted to ask and the perspectives it wanted to offer. a lot of ppl complained abt how easy and predictable the whodunnit was to solve, and i myself complained abt how clearly everything is laid out with so little effort needed to read into it, but i guess that's really the point of the show. i dont think it thinks it's smarter than its audience, and i dont think it was ever supposed to be a puzzle box. i think it wanted to have a conversation and so it says its piece and it concludes in a really simple place: the harm and violence in the show is perpetrated by the unknowing child, manipulated by tech built to protect the child's father and informed by the father's violence and paranoia. the future generations are at risk from both the environmental devastation in the world at large and the men who swear to protect them (thinking obviously of elon musk's insane and regrettably demonstrative relationship to his own children). tech is a tool that mirrors those that use and create it, and it facilitates beautiful connections between people, and it can be violently dangerous, and it makes life far easier and more livable for people, and it's incredibly strong, and it has a body and that body is very fragile. and i think it's fine for a show to be pretty on the nose abt all that. if anything, my big complaints are that the cast was too large so we didn't get to spend time with potentially interesting characters, and that for a show that treats climate change like the central hyperobject it kind of ignored that aspect in the finale. otherwise, as stated, fun watch with a lot of good thoughts that are laid out pretty well.