Sometimes a piece of media will irritate me because it had interesting themes, fumbled the execution, and had an either mediocre or bad ending AND THEN PEOPLE CRITICISE IT FOR THE WRONG REASONS AND/OR MISS OUT ON OBVIOUS SUBTEXT. I am so tired of a creator near directly stating a thing in supplemental material and doing all but verbally state the thing and then having people say "oh, the ending confirmed [thing] wasn't canon."
I won't post spoilers until it's officially out on youtube, (if at all), but the TADC ending kinda sucked. I'm going to vaguely allude to things. Holyyyyyyyy shit do some parts of the ending feel insensitive considering the current political climate and I REALLY hope part of that is just mistranslation or censorship. (We'll see when the official release comes out, I guess.) The subtext and coding of one character, in one particular scene is very clear to me and most people familiar with people who've had those experiences. I don't think the character is great representation and how they were handled is especially upsetting because the particular community/group relevant is actively facing negative stereotypes similar to this character. (Not to say no one within that community is like that but it is a pretty small minority.) There's also a mental health problem handled so tactlessly and poorly that I am unshocked that people are coming out of it with the worst possible reading. My issues are primarily with one character and I'm sure you know which one if you've seen the leaks or people's reactions. It comes off in a very bad way with some gross implications.
The ending of episode 9 makes multiple the things that happened in episode 8 pointless too. The pacing feels awful and a majority of the characters I wasn't reffering to, especially one of the characters shown in the flashback's come off flat and shallow. The ending makes me dislike the show a lot more and I do think a lot of the criticisms of it are very well deserved. My initial post was mainly me venting my frustration on the lack of critical analysis that reads into fairly obvious and very important to discuss subtext. (The original post was also about more than just TADC, it's a trend I've been seeing within fandom.)
I also want to point out that GLITCH keeps associating with/hiring people who are casually racist without ever properly adressing it. Disproportionately hiring primarily white people who often have long histories of problematic behavior isn't a great look. TADC's creator specifically has also said and done some things that come off as concerning and very insensitive in that regard too. I'm not the best person to talk about that as someone who doesn't deal with that kind of racism, there's better documented and researched posts about it to look at. With all that, I really don't care if you give me shit for watching the leaks, I didn't even intentionally find out about them; I don't really think you should throw a lot of support towards people who treat marginalized groups and their oppression like they're lesser or a joke.
