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What I liked about S1 was that it was a bit tighter than The Walking Dead. Pedro Pascal, of course, is always great to watch. I liked the little vignettes as the road trip across America played out.

S2 lost all of that momentum. Interpersonal moments became overly contrived. The show settles into a predictable pacing of running, action, stop and talk, running... Actors get even less to work with and good character moments are sparse and mostly used for cliffhanger bait.

I just want grumpy Pascal escorting a vulnerable but sassy child/alien across a map and making/killing friends along the way. I do not want a late 00s zombie c-movie with theater actors doing metaphors about Israel/Palestine. Especially when the punchline is "Wow, Israelis sure are brutal but have you seen what they're fighting?"

What did YOU think about S2 and its ending?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's one of the most reactionary, disgusting shows I've ever seen. Doing apologia for a fascist, racist ideology that's actively committing genocide has to be a new low in television. There's been plenty of reactionary programming but stuff that directly pushes the line of the genociders by an unapologetic fascist writer is just a new low. Demons, these people are demons.

This isn't a little distant fascist metaphor or sympathy. This isn't Frank Miller type stuff. This is far worse and EVERYONE associated with this show is guilty and has the blood of Palestinians on them. Every one of them from actors to especially writers is as OR MORE (given the internet's ability to expose us to the truth and alternative viewpoints) guilty as the people who ran Der Sturmer the Nazi propaganda rag.

The checks these actors draw are written in Palestinian blood and may they NEVER be forgiven for it. Never forgotten for it.

My hitler-detector was going off like crazy within a couple of episodes of this second season. I wasn't trying to do critical analysis but I soon realized there was something insidious and incredibly reactionary, anti-intellectual, anti-human about the ideology the writers were shoveling at the audience. And I realized it wasn't some misanthropic writing device like the 28 Days/Weeks later universe where helping people fucks you over every time, it was obvious they were barely and badly disguising behind fiction a hard push of an ideology from the writers, a sincerely held ideology.

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