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Well it's late but I mean... shoo is anyone gonna stop me from watching more HGS? I don't think so. I finished my work kinda, whatever
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from earlier @__MoBlack/1459287227066892288
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It's okay we'll vibe when people wake up tomorrow they'll be like "oh he did more ok"
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sometimes you have to scream into a hole. show gets me
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They gave an ethics class to like, first years, which I find somewhat strange. Brb dinner
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I'm sort of forming a thesis on this show, around utopia, basically, but it's only episode 2 and while it is incredibly rare that I am incorrect about things it does happen on occasion. Like Talentless Nana... *shudders*
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the show is living in a fantasy where every professor at an elite private school is a good teacher who likes their job and cares about the well being of their students rather than a random, spiteful asshole with tenure
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they're just going to class, and I'm tired. the only reason why I'm up is because I forgot to eat while I was working. So I apologize if the commentary is kinda dry. But I am thinking, thoughts are forming
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Classism is a thing it wants to do actually, which means we've arrived at the show's first ✨ political theme ✨ The classism in the show is not systemic. So far it's wholly relegated to a small handful of rich white assholes who are personally mean to our protagonists
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The school is loosely and transparently organized to let the writers send the characters wherever they want, whenever. It's a little jarring because episode 1 did quite a bit of show-don't-tell worldbuilding but this episode the school feels very... cardboard
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They're like "here's free period where you can do whatever, and also you get to go on adventures". That doesn't feel like something a school would it, it feels like something a writer would do
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Rosemary just has ADHD btw and I will not be explaining further
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actually Sage/Rosemary reminds me a lot of me and my sib, especially when we were younger and had to separate for the first times and do different things with new people. this may explain it's the core of the experience for me
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I guess my thing is, I am not particularly invested in the actual specifics of going to magic school or becoming a guardian, but besides Rosemary and Sage, that's what the show is trying to offer as a selling point
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The creator cites Naruto as an influence specifically right? So I guess it's kinda like becoming the Hogake. But I haven't actually watched Naruto, I can just recognize when the purpose behind two plot points are similar
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So it's over. Do I have thoughts? Yes Um worse than episode 1 by quite a bit. Rosemary and Sage are like, the best part of the show when they are together. But they can't be together all the time, and when they're not it's got a lot less going for it
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The show seems to trust... authority? Quite a bit? Every parent is a good parent. Every teacher is a good teacher. The trio that runs the school are wise, if not eccentric. Fuckin hell they're literally training to become GUARDIANS right?
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Since this is for children, my expectations were not exactly set at "Revolutionary Communist Literature". The show seems to take place in a kind of utopia, where a lot of the problems that exist for us either don't exist, or exist in small degrees
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My issue is, the show has not established how systems like school or family in their world are different than here. They just kind of exist without any of the problems. So it reads like just sanitizing those systems in real life
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I had one more thing to say but then I did a big yawn and it escaped my brain