May 12, 2024
This season started great. Rebuilding a workshop that the flow of time was making obsolete
But when the Lafelle plot started it was kind of a bizarre turn for the series. Ann had made herself as against slavery in the first season, as well as Challe, however now we have a plot with a radical abolitionist and he's the villain? What gives?
Overall the class dynamics of the series make sense, and so do the characters, but it's a universe where slavery of a whole species is commonplace, where getting freedom is way harder than irl since you can't just escape, you need your wing back.
The problems
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started when I noticed that at no point the institution of slavery was defied. At no point the State or the Religion were painted as bad for making and promoting a system of slavery, everyone just went along
And at the very ending Challe says "There may be a time when it is necessary for me to take some kind of action"
Faeries are tortured for fun; killed like pests
How is that time not upon Challe and all faeries alike?
Lafelle proposed and was working towards a solution. He had a plan of action that could work and then Challe brings the human army, the army of the mass enslavers, to the castle. That's class betrayal. As the episodes went on feeling pity for Ann became harder and harder and by the last episode, all compassion towards Challe was lost. He may have as well given the freedom of his own kind for decades, centuries, all because he likes a human.
At that point, Challe became one of the villains of the show
With that, however, I must admit that the start was very good and even the last episode had good moments. It cannot be all criticized but that plot element brought the score down from a 9 to a six.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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