can you expand more on the authorial intent of pmmm thing? I’ve only seen the original series so I might be missing something
I have also only seen the original series, and most of what I’ve heard here is secondhand. I started looking into the spinoff material, was thoroughly Noped Out, and have heard things from a friend who was unfortunate enough to have one of her favourite series get Urobuchi/the PMMM guy as a writer.
but from what I understand: Urobuchi is an incorrigible nihilist. he doesn’t like the idea of hope or joy or meaning. he really likes writing grimdark and most of his other stuff features stoic, emotionless protagonists who do horrible things for the greater good. and he’s extremely utilitarian.
i’m not sure if i’d go as far as to say that he thinks Kyuubey is right, but from what I can tell he definitely sympathizes with Kyuubey more than the average PMMM viewer does, and sympathizes less with the main cast.
most of the Madoka spinoff material, and a whole lot of Urobuchi’s other work, is more in the grimdark utilitarian vein than in the vein of the ending of the original series. the sequel movie in particular completely undermines the series’ ending- I haven’t seen it, so I might be unfairly judging it, but... it recasts Homura’s love for Madoka as an unhealthy obsession that destroys worlds, and turns Homura into a dark goddess that opposes Madoka to keep the cycle of Meguca going. >_>
... I really, really, really liked the ending of the original series. Finding out that what I got out of it was not what the author intended was... uh... upsetting? Upsetting.
So while I like some parts of the writing of the original series, most of what’s kept me invested these days is not the writing, because it means something completely different from what I wanted it to mean.
