@CursedSilicon @pmc you aren’t trans? ah that explains it.

This might sound weird but i predicted a lot of the most important cues in the show would be entirely missed by non-trans people. Like i mentioned before not to make it sound like in-group out group.

As a trans woman i recognised the show and its characters as taking place, allegorically, inside the brain of one closeted trans woman, and the characters are jungian archetypes of the one person coming to terms with her transness.

if you’re expecting it to be something else, and you don’t have those experiences, i think it’s going to just be confusing.

what i take issue with is you keep saying “poorly written” but never going into detail about what you mean.

but maybe it’s not poorly written. just not written with you in mind as a target audience

@bri7 @pmc I'm not cis, or trans. But a secret worse third thing as they say (some terrible flavour of non-binary and or raccoon)

Admittedly I didn't go into it with any expectations (or prior knowledge). It's just what I "picked up" from watching it.

I think the reason I found the writing so lacking was largely *because* it played with so many characters and ideas about them. Then just (literally) buried those characters in the void (except for Jax who I guess gets to sleep over until he becomes "a problem" given what Caine said???)

"Yeah we gave an NPC sentience, twice. But fuck that, (literally) delete them from the story"

"All those other people who were here? Yeah they're monsters now and forever. Don't think about it. Just be happy for who's left!"

@CursedSilicon @pmc “all those potential lives you could have lived, if you were allowed to transition younger? they’re gone now.
don’t worry about it, just be happy with the handful of years you have left”

“rememeber those times you realised you were trans, (gained sentience) and you got so excited. and then scared, and then buried it deeper and deeper? don’t worry about it. forget it”

some stories don’t get to have neat and satisfying resolutions

i think the feeling of dissatisfaction about it is what you were supposed to be feeling, on purpose

@bri7 @pmc I guess? The way the show handled it, showing them (literally) dumped into the abyss and then *forgotten about* like garbage felt very...at odds with "these are people who formed deep, emotional bonds and now only carry memories of them"

Again, even Jax, after their own inability to form emotional bonds with anyone until they transformed is just sort of "allowed to stay, for now" according to what the characters say.

It's not that the characters aren't given satisfying resolutions so much as they're treated as literal monster allegories that need to be buried under the floorboards (despite Pomni finding out that no actually they're still very much 'alive' inside, still)

@steff @pmc @bri7 But that's exactly my criticism

If you're "abstracted" you just get dumped in a hole

When Caine comes back he even goes "do you want me to deal with that?" and they're like "nah he's fine for now"

"for now" giving me a vibe of "you can stay until you become inconvenient"