And another two anons:
Can I ask why you stopped watching Motherland: Fort Salem? Just curious
oh no, why did you stop watching motherland? 🙁 what made you stop though…
Heh, I didn’t expect multiple asks. Tbh, I don’t really know why, if you like a show, do you want to hear negative things about it? But you asked, so… I debated even mentioning it in the first place, but I didn’t want to lie or mislead about it either. That’s two major things in the f/f zeitgeist I’m not really connecting to, huh. Thank god for Killing Eve. 😛
To be clear, these are my reasons and I’m not saying anyone else should stop or there’s something wrong with them if they wholeheartedly love it, I don’t ever really make that kind of judgment on what people watch and why. But it was a combination of not being particularly invested and not liking certain choices, I guess. After all, if I’d been more invested, the choices wouldn’t have been a dealbreaker.
Basically, while I liked the second last ep I watched, at the wedding, with the mother-daughter teamup, the next ep had all those dead Bellweathers with their vocal cords cut out and I realized I don’t really like the writers’ perspective on this world. They seem, to me, to make choices and subvert things more because they seem cool and because of surface-level activism reasons than because they’ve put a lot of thought into it. Like, to make the powerful aristocratic family black, okay, cool, but then not changing anything else around it, and not seeing anything wrong with killing and mutilating a bunch of them. As a whole, it just seems like the show’s going to be a lot of violence coated over by the main three’s friendship (and their respective ships). I guess I was hoping for a deeper interrogation of what this AU would mean.