This is a metaphor for WA2 for me:
In a cooking show, the cook bakes a very tasty-looking pie, then drops it on the floor and steps on it.
Is that supposed to be art or something? o.O
Before the pie got dropped, I thought to myself “That looks yummy. I’d love to eat that pie!” But now it’s just splattered and gross and dirty. I wouldn’t eat it even if I could.
I’m not into modern art, so I refuse to see any kind of beauty in the pointless destruction of a perfectly good product. It’s not beautiful to me, just unpleasant.
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
Remember this well. It’s an important principle, especially when discussing fictional works.
WA2 revolves around the emotions, relationships and interactions of its 3 main characters. To put it simply, the characters are everything. In order to get into the whole thing, you need to be emotionally attached to the characters to a certain degree (no matter if it’s love or hate or both).
So when the characters became unlikeable, I stopped caring about them. I became indifferent. Needless to say, I couldn’t relate to them anymore. So due to the central role of the characters, everything about WA2 became unpleasant.
Which is why
this is the case for me.
And then it got even worse due to how it all ‘ended’.
[quote=“Takafumi, post:64, topic:28”]
Maybe the genre just isn’t for you? Or maybe you just don’t relate enough.[/quote]
So it’s kind of both. I couldn’t feel for the characters when they became pathetic. I don’t like to watch things getting deliberately wasted. I don’t like to watch stories about just how imperfect people are. It seems pointless to me.
Well, that makes a lot of sense. However, if you find that beautiful, then I’m afraid we’ll never see eye to eye in that regard. Because I don’t see the point on making a show based on that.
I know that humans suck. I don’t need a fictional story to tell me that. I can watch people suck all the time by watching the news, looking out of the window or leaving my house for a bit. That’s not what I watch fiction for.
[quote=“Takafumi, post:64, topic:28”]
You criticize shows for being unrealistic, and then you dislike one of the most realistic shows in a long time. =3=[/quote]
You just missed my whole point, since it has nothing to do with how realistic the show is.
And I don’t see how the characters have ‘gained’ anything from it. I mean, they could have, but they decided not to, right at the end.