He didn't have a clear philosophy for Kristin to have that moment where she understood his PoV and come to his side. I just get not sense of his arc.Īs a result, I also didn't quite resonate with Kristin's arc with him, from casually stabbing him (either finish the job or don't do it, she's killed many people so why hesitate?) to believing him when he says he wants to help her rescue her friends or that he's not a bad guy because the suicide bombing wasn't explicitly ordered by him. Having 200 kids suicide bomb an airport (or even knowing it would happen without him explicitly ordering against it) is a very heinous act of retribution and he has nowhere near redeemed himself. Blowing up the museum of civilization control tower makes sense, fine. The trigger is there with the shooting of the surviving passenger, I just couldn't get a read on how it changed him and made him go around all the way to 'there is no before' wipe out the entire airport mentality. Perhaps its how the kid actor plays the character, but I never got a sense of him coming around to fundamentally hating the airport group. I liked everything but how Tyler's motives and resolution were setup. Imagine the complete inability to relate or understand why they do ANYTHING the way they do. Imagine this exponentially increased by the difference between pandemic survivors and their post-pandemic children. The conditions boomers and millenials grew up in are so different, it's no wonder they have different values and core beliefs.
We are all familiar with the stereotypes and caricatures. They sometimes think millenials are entitled, whiny, lazy, and ungrateful. I see them as occasionally selfish, short-sighted, and cynical, even though this isnt always true at all. I also think about this as a millenial who sometimes laments the directions and policies boomers have forced onto society. It just seems like she's too stupid to be intellectually consistent. But yeah I wish they had approached this in a more consistent, evenly handed way. She's absolutely insufferable, and I agree the intent had to have been that 'post-pan' children are. And that trauma is probably a big part of why she cant relate to them, beyond the vestigial norms and expectations of a structured society that they carry with them. Add to that she doesnt have the pessimism and sense of loss and trauma that the survivors have. A lot of societal expectations and norms just weren't forced on her, and the ones that are don't make sense to her. She has never really been to a school or had to deal with pre-pandemic authority structures. I have always had a bit of an anti-authority sentiment in my worldview, and never thought I would see a show and say "those kids need some structure, and role models! Law and order!", but I think that's what they're trying to show. My take on it halfway through the season is that this is how kids turn out without structured education, without positive role models, and without a large peer group to use to normalize their behaviors against. It's really jarring compared to how thoughtfully everything else is executed, it throws off the whole apparently intended reading of the Prophet, and it felt like very precious time stolen from characters who deserved it. None of her stuff makes any fucking sense and I think it was a really unfortunate mistake to pivot so much of the finale around her when she’s so grating to watch. She feels sad for the Rose story, but joins the guy who mass kidnaps kids. And then comes back, and doesn’t react, at all, to the fact Kirsten has gone on a suicide mission on her behalf. She says she loves Kirsten but never once does anything to show it, and rides her horse through (as far as she knows) an active minefield. She loves asking about phones and doing Karaoke, but she throws in her lot with the Luddite hive. She wants to stay at the airport, she wants to leave with the Undersea.
I loved so much about the rest of the show I just don't understand what went wrong with the writing of that character in particular.
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