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It drives me nuts that the plot of the new season sucks as much as it does, because it's also one of the best looking shows I've seen in a while. The battle scenes are genuinely pure cocaine and I want them injected straight into my veins. I - unfortunately - had a great time watching it.
But the plotline, the ending especially, isn't just lib. It's straight up fash. Two seasons of a revolutionary civil war of an oppressed population against their elite get resolved by... uniting against a common external enemy? That's the plot arc of fascist Italy in the '20s. Or Weimar Germany.
It was all over the place, without the steady escalating tempo of the original. Even the fight scenes were clipped and visually abbreviated - switching to these dramatic vinettes in a bunch of the Warwick and Vi combat scenes.
S2 had some interesting and clever movements... but yeah. It was 2-3 seasons crammed into one, and it showed.
I don't even not like the "Perfection isn't something you attain, it's something you pursue" moral at the end of the show. But season 1 felt so dialectical. You had these historical moments building on themselves to a stunning climax.
Season 2 was handed this dramatic historical pivot, kinda-sorta looked like it was going to grapple with the fundamentals appeals and consequences of fascism, but then stumbled back down into "Everything gets solved when the Special People duke it out".
The fundamental plight of Zaun, the cost of pollution and the failure of equitable distribution, is lost in the race to fight Evil Foreigners and Fifth Columnist Traitors. A real squandered opportunity.