It really annoys me when the villains are obviously right so the writers have to make their ideology incoherent. Like, these people want a unified world and an end to corruption, but they're also mad that half the world came back and got help? Like that makes no fucking sense. They think the world was better when half the population was gone for no reason at all.
It's just a lazy thing writers do when they don't want to realise that defending the status quo isn't necessarily a good thing
they’re also mad that half the world came back and got help? Like that makes no fucking sense
We've (deliberately) not been given the whole manifesto of what Flag Smashers actually believe, the show has been dancing around it the whole time. From what little we've heard from them, it sounds like aid/supplies that were going to the poor during the Blip are now going back to the half of the rich who came back? But, again, it's frustratingly unclear.
they’re also mad that half the world came back and got help
Actually, I can see the plot twist coming that the world came back and most countries were not set up to deal with the sudden influx. They were specifically robbing vaccines to take to a refugee camp. So they are gonna do the common "The initial bad guys were good, but they went about the wrong way or stole from the wrong people" trope.
Zaheer was not right because of exactly one sentence. He says his anarchism is about "one man just taking care of his and his own" and rejects and sort of collectivism or communalism. His actions and rhetoric were mostly pretty cool (outside of attacking Korra), but his ideology was shit. I legitimately doubt the writers know enough about Anarachism to think it's anything more than "burn down gubbment" because most Americans think that. Disney is so much more insidious because it's very clear they know they are coopting Antifa/Anarchist ideology for the flag smashers, but are choosing to make equal redistribution seem "evil."
It really annoys me when the villains are obviously right so the writers have to make their ideology incoherent. Like, these people want a unified world and an end to corruption, but they're also mad that half the world came back and got help? Like that makes no fucking sense. They think the world was better when half the population was gone for no reason at all.
It's just a lazy thing writers do when they don't want to realise that defending the status quo isn't necessarily a good thing
We've (deliberately) not been given the whole manifesto of what Flag Smashers actually believe, the show has been dancing around it the whole time. From what little we've heard from them, it sounds like aid/supplies that were going to the poor during the Blip are now going back to the half of the rich who came back? But, again, it's frustratingly unclear.
Actually, I can see the plot twist coming that the world came back and most countries were not set up to deal with the sudden influx. They were specifically robbing vaccines to take to a refugee camp. So they are gonna do the common "The initial bad guys were good, but they went about the wrong way or stole from the wrong people" trope.
The Legend of Korra and Zaheer.
I didn't want to bring it up because I mention it too much but yes Zaheer was completely right so the writers just made him go crazy
Zaheer was not right because of exactly one sentence. He says his anarchism is about "one man just taking care of his and his own" and rejects and sort of collectivism or communalism. His actions and rhetoric were mostly pretty cool (outside of attacking Korra), but his ideology was shit. I legitimately doubt the writers know enough about Anarachism to think it's anything more than "burn down gubbment" because most Americans think that. Disney is so much more insidious because it's very clear they know they are coopting Antifa/Anarchist ideology for the flag smashers, but are choosing to make equal redistribution seem "evil."