the bad guys are portrayed as so neurodivergent that the only safe way to interact with them is through violence and death, and any attempts at diplomacy or negotiations is just camouflage for something sinister. They try to take the edge off by making them magical fascists who perpetuate genocide, but really they could have just made them ontologically evil instead
My takeaway was that the show did make them ontologically evil. They're not fascists with an ideological goal of committing genocide, they are asocial predators whose natural behaviour is to kill people, and they are capable of vocalising in the pursuit of that.
they are asocial predators whose natural behaviour is to kill people, and they are capable of vocalising in the pursuit of that.
Idk man it's still kinda icky, especially when in the real world racists will use language like that to justify their racism. I think I'd have preferred if they just left out all the EvoPsych stuff altogether and let the bad guys just straight up be evil spirits or something, without explaining anything.
My takeaway was that the show did make them ontologically evil. They're not fascists with an ideological goal of committing genocide, they are asocial predators whose natural behaviour is to kill people, and they are capable of vocalising in the pursuit of that.
Idk man it's still kinda icky, especially when in the real world racists will use language like that to justify their racism. I think I'd have preferred if they just left out all the EvoPsych stuff altogether and let the bad guys just straight up be evil spirits or something, without explaining anything.