every single character has become completely one dimensional and all of them are flanderized to hell and back. nobody's reasonings or reactions to anything make any sense or are in any way proportional
just because sinclair's right doesn't mean like...like bruh polity soldiers executing people in the streets, I'm sorry, what fucking show is this anymore?
Also way to good over that using the copies in the frames is helping us take back the west. Didn't need to see any of that at all. Tell don't show. God
I'm still upset about kazus lack of meaningful characterization like yes he was always the fiery Magnus rushes in type but he just tells about everything and he shouldn't freak about gender stuff after being in Val's head so much
like I want this to be Kazu Discovers He's Genderfluid/NB/Trans but him doing the absolute freaking out that I AM A MAN WHY IS MY DIGITAL HEADSPACE AVATAR A WOMAN CAMMIE FIX THIS NOW feels
he mostly seemed befuddled by the whole thing but didn't make a huge deal about it, and given how much he and val have mindshared before, this feels way overblown
like even if it doesn't turn into a Kazu Fucks With His Own Gender storyline, the idea with all the sharing that maybe they subconsciously fuck with their presentation shouldn't be...a surprise?
but kazu has super suffered from being VERY LOUD YELLMAN whose personality seems to have boiled down to Big Loud Anime Fiteboi (bc he's had this whole thing about idealizing roboshogun and quoting from it constantly)
cammie seems to be subconsciously creating big fluffy bunnies that have been invading everyone else's personal headspaces and insisting that she isn't deliberately making them BUT HEY THEY ARE CUTE AND SQUISHY AND YOU CAN'T BE MAD OR UPSET WHEN YOU HAVE THEM TO HUG which...man again there's an idea there that isn't bad but
yaz shared with everyone memories of her life in the union and cammie has become SUPER interested in it, wants to learn more about it, it all seemed so PEACEFUL and yaz naturally told her to fucking stop bc the union's full of propaganda that's supposed to sucker you in
oh also cammie's casually invented a device to just slap on your head and throw you into...idk what you want to call it, digital mode that they go into for the pods, and like remote locking instead of using said pods, and wow she thought about making more and even mass production but, hahaha, there's only six of us that are genlock compatible!!!
val hasn't had enough to do or say to have his personality befuckened yet, but I am mad that they more or less reused the intro to s1 and did not bother to update val's look, so the title sequence still has valentina when he does not present that way anymore
yaz's personality hasn't been too fucked with yet, mostly we've just been getting her backstory and I fucking hate everything we've been seeing of the union
miranda accused chase of being a union sympathizer because he found out the polity was the one that made the war go hot by attacking a holy site and killing civilians and he's got opinions on that
miranda immediately decided she wants to join the command team bc she thought that (unprovoked attack and civ casualties) was the hard but right call to make and is on the colonel's side in all this
it was miranda and uhhh the guy she started dating after chase 'died' I forget his name offhand, and chase blipped into the room without so much as a knock beforehand to talk to her and interrupted them and she spends half the scene standing there naked arguing with chase and it's just
also las vegas is an underground city now bc the climate crisis turned it all into a super desert that can't be inhabited anymore. the crew is taking some leave there. there was an android strip club. not...real ladies, just these robot android ladies with robot boobs? migas was getting a lap dance from one and having Regrets bc she's cold
and not only do I think the animation hasn't improved at all, but sometimes I think it looks...worse... not all the time but sometimes I look at a character or at some coloring or lighting and go oof
also everyone: we gotta mindshare some memories RIGHT NOW