• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    That’s when I stopped watching actually. I don’t shy away from gore but his last words to Maggie broke me. I can relate to that.

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      6 months ago

      yeah, as I argued, it wasn’t the gore per se, but about the emotional violence and disrespect towards the viewers that made me despise the team of that series. Gore is shown in splatter movies (Halloween, Scream, …), but in those you don’t have an emotional build-up to like a character. Protagonists are killed in thrillers / movies / series that build them up first, but then there’s no direct gore. The crossover is what makes the director and everyone complicit a piece of shit.

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        6 months ago

        It’s hard not to argue that the extreme impact it had on people is actually an example of a extremely well done surprise/twist.

        I also pretty much stopped watching after that though lol

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          6 months ago

          an example of a extremely well done surprise/twist.

          By committing a non-punishable act of abuse against the audience? I don’t think so. What this was to the regular viewers was what it would be to expose kids to whatever PG-18 content in the middle of their favorite animated cartoon.