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  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Never read the books but did watch the series...

    Isn't there a through line about sectarianism, maybe?

    spoiler

    When the members of the VFD turn on each other for, what I vaguely remember, a pretty petty reason. (Wait, was it petty? Or was it a split caused because some of them made a WMD level biological weapon stored in a tea pot?)

      • D61 [any]
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        3 years ago
        spoiler

        But some people joined it because they believed it was about starting various fires around the world.

        Damn, I wonder if that was in the Netflix series or if I just completely missed that part of the description of the VFD after the kids find out about it...

        Thanks for the breakdown!

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          Regardless, a lot of depth and a good mystery to spin out over the course of a series.

          Lots of shades of gray and materialist understandings of human behavior, often pitched from the initial black/white worldview and spun out into something more complex and deep.

          Also, I really enjoyed the joke of an entire cheer leading squad chanting "You can't beat a dead horse".

          • D61 [any]
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            3 years ago

            Oh yeah, I thought it was a hoot!

            I've also been a bit of a fan of Patrick Warburton since the short lived live action "Tick" series and this show scratched that itch.