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firebirdsdaughter · 4 years

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I'm a lil behind on Zero-One (ep 21), but what a terrible "lesson" Fuwa proposed around the 16 minute mark. Why should the victims (Humagears) learn to protect themselves from human's malice when it should be the humans who should learn not to treat Humagears like trash/mind-and heartless tools? The way it is rn, I fully support Horobi's idea of getting rid of humanity. This is such a terrible concept of victim shaming, and Gai with his temper tantrum/hurt ego bs only makes things worse.

I think we interpreted that scene a little differently.

To me, the impression I got was HumaGear do need to be better able to deal w/ ‘negative’ emotions, like anger and resentment, bc they have no idea how to react to them, which allows the Ark to pop in and prompt them to go completely berserk rather than just getting back up and snapping back, or even just pushing back, bc it’s providing the only guidance for these new feelings. Bc humans have always expected them to be completely obedient and benevolent, that’s the only way they’ve been taught to behave. When they experience something like anger, they don’t know what to do or how to control it, leaving them open to the Ark to manipulate or hack them. While they appear to be adults, AI are still very similar to children in that they learn and develop from the world around them and process it. Yes, ‘adults’ are responsible, but trying to change them is so large scale that the easier thing would be to try and teach the ‘child’ what to replicate and what’s not okay, and how to deal w/ it.

Also, I feel like Fuwa’s wording, though he’s def far from being fully in terms w/ his issues w/ HumaGear, laid the issue more at humanity’s feet. Humanity made them, made the world, so it’s their responsibility to make sure that HumaGear are as equipped to deal w/ what happens in it as other humans are. Even if it’s understandable, it’s still not okay if a human being goes on a rampage bc they were hurt or mistreated. Basically, I felt like Fuwa was suggesting teaching HumaGear anger management, which I feel like recognises them more as sentient people than expecting their blind benevolence, or even to try and teach them not to fall into the trap that’s been set for them. It’s not a great answer, but esp considering the guy originally believed that all HumaGear were inherently evil, it shows some growth.

Gai, meanwhile… Well, won’t get into spoilers, but the guy is meant to be that shitty person. Sakuragi apparently loves seeing people talk about how much they hate Gai, bc it means he’s doing his job. Gai is that arrogant, petty, capitalist dickwad who thinks he’s above everyone. Gai’s whole schtick is that he creates problems so that his tech can ‘solve’ them.

For me, I think the impression I was getting was Fuwa starting to come out of victim blaming and seeing that HumaGear need to be treated more like people (i.e. learn anger management, learn to see other ways to deal w/ things than following the Ark, esp bc you’re not gonna completely change society’s views so easily), and recognising humans are at fault. Gai meanwhile wants to prompt that blame, wants to paint a picture that a lot of people would love to buy into, that they didn’t do anything wrong, and it was the ‘fault’ of the technology. The main issue being the sheer scale; should humans learn to treat HumaGear? Hell yes. But one kid isn’t going to change a whole damn society quickly enough to make a difference. They need to be able to persevere w/ minimal loss of life to form building blocks. Fair? Absolutely not. Realistic? Honestly… Yes.

I do have issues w/ how the show handles HumaGear and Aruto’s and others sympathies. One thing that has absolutely been going through my head, that I wish someone would say, is ‘humans created HumaGear, why do HumaGear suddenly need to justify their existence to humans?’ Basically, while I think the ‘believe in HumaGear’ tagline should stay, I would love for it to be paired w/ someone asking for a reason for HumaGear to believe in humanity. One exchange that I’ve wanted to include in my writing somehow, for a while, was a response to Yua’s ‘will HumaGear have good will toward humanity?’ question; to me, that response is ‘does humanity deserve their good will?’

If… Any of that made sense? I’m really sorry for the mess, I hope I worded that well enough. I think my main thing is that, yes, humanity is the root of the issue and yes, that’s blatantly unfair. And I hate to sound like an old coot, but the fact is that life is very not fair, and that it’s often easier to survive and make groundwork rather than trying to force an (aggressive and w/ a capitalist jackass fuelling the fire) large society to change. The other things is that this is a kid’s show, and it is going to go for a broader strokes in many ways (actually I’ve begun to think ‘broader strokes/themes’ is a staple of a Takahashi-driven story). And yeah, it absolutely has its issues. Just like Ex-Aid did, honestly. And some bigger than others. But there is some stuff there. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there have been developments that give me hope that they’ll be starting to address/touch on the bigger issues regarding ‘blame’ and stuff like that, esp w/ new revelations.

Oh, gods, I hope all this made sense. I’m really sorry if it didn’t.

#Asks #Anonymous #Firebird Salt #this word vomit is of course just how I process this #due to experiences and personalities and all other stuff people interpret stuff differently #so I absolutely do not need or expect everyone to agree w/ me nor do I claim this is fact #I just wanna say that #but no it ain't perfect #but they seem like they're going to start trying #and while this is totally and MBJR support blog I do think they need to tone it down #driving a species to extinction is never the answer #whether they be Dodos or humans #I hope I responded satisfactorily?#I was just trying to offer my personal interpretation of events for thought

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