#but yeah idk i thought that was interesting! i think the implications for future augment storylines get. a smidge messy. but on its own | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

joshuaalbert · 2 years ago

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anyway complaints about storytelling on a stupid shortened scale aside (i think with a 22+ episode season we would not have some of these issues, since you could get attached to these characters more naturally over time vs having to give them all sad backstories so you care about them, and the dynamics between characters would have more meaning) i do think this episode was interesting for how it handled multicultural views of augmentation. it makes sense that races other than humans would have different perspectives and different purposes for it, and i find the idea of changing yourself rather than your environment when exploring and establishing new settlements to be a genuinely interesting one. you can still understand why the federation bans it, given earth’s history, but it’s a nice degree of complexity to realize that every species does not have the same values as a lot of human societies have had and therefore wouldn’t necessarily fall into the exact same patterns if enhanced.

#i think this show has interesting concepts it's just being constantly kneecapped by having a 10 episode season #there are other problems for sure but i think that's the most significant one that contributes to a lot of the other issues #but yeah idk i thought that was interesting! i think the implications for future augment storylines get. a smidge messy. but on its own #snw liveblog #edit: this is not like. pro eugenics. I didn’t phrase some things well #but I basically just mean that the way humans approach augmentation is based on certain things like intellect or strength being valued #in a lot of cultures #but it’s interesting to explore how cultures who might not have identical perceptions of The Ideal Person might approach it differently #eugenics are still bad but how do you deal with a character who was raised into that culture is an interesting question

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