Episode 3 also had the deus ex machina ending praising communism.
I can handle subversion but at least be a bit subtle about it.
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I thought that first ep was less about the tranny thing than about traditionalism vs modernism and it was dealt with from a purely alien culture perspective so it was fine.
This one was after-school-special quality writing using the premise of the other ep as a springboard.
Kid "feels" wrong and his feelings are validated by a progressive stronk wamen because no other considerations matter. Talks about suicide so you know this is srs biznis. Traditional father objects and is shown as the unrepentant bad guy. "Heroic" "allies" (led by a white woman of course) make the transition happen over the father's and standing legal objections, father shows he is a "bigot". "and everyone clapped"
yeah, but in the end, everyone clapped over a DE-transition, which is based.
Topa was returned to her correct gender. The fact that this was seen as "progressive" is just a trope subversion.
So in other words they made something so incredibly fake and gay it somehow went through the walls of reality and became based?
imo it wasn't the sex change that was the real problem, it was that it was undertaken due to the whims of a child - and encouraged by an "ally" (white woman) over the objections of the father
and the show portrays the only possible objections to that are "bigotry"
dude, "whims of a child?" it's a genetic female saying "put me back the way God & nature intended"
the logic does not work in reverse. an actual girl wanting to be the girl she objectively is when her parents had earlier forced her to be a boy, isn't the same as an actual girl deciding that she would rather be a boy. respecting a person's choice to be the CORRECT gender is not the same as respecting a child's choice to be the INCORRECT gender.
That was my take as well, but I also think it was unintentional. I think they intended it to be pro-tranny and didn't expect our take on the ep.