#great it's over for now so don't ever let me see the words N*zi L*li ever again

[millennialdemon]

Alright, so... a summary of my experience watching Saga of Tanya the Evil:

It’s well made, speaking to themeing and imagery and irony and all that shit, and the direction was very good in facilitating those things, and I Guess the topics it covered are interesting to other people but... they aren’t topics I’m interested in covering. 

The cynicism re: religion and “God”, the commentary (?) on capitalism and apathy and war morality bullshit (which I really sincerely hope no one is nodding along with like Tanya has a point, she’s Tanya the Evil for a reason and I got so tired writing about how wrong she was about the “people are driven by emotion and they will revolt if we leave any survivors” shit that I abandoned the post)... isn’t me. I feel like I’ve had my fair share of those discussions on awful forum boards in 2012, honestly. It doesn’t help that because we’re following Tanya as the...? Charming? Protagonist a lot of the conclusions to those thoughts are muddled. 

There’s also the issues of all the Quirky things dragging it down, tbh. I hate that Tanya is a little girl and there’s no reason for it, it doesn’t affect her character, she isn’t a tortured soul in a child’s body and she’s treated with respect and like an adult by like 60 year old military commanders. I hate that all of these themes and topics are being presented alongside a Not At All Alternate Universe of Wartime Germany as if that doesn’t automatically introduce huge blockades to exploring those themes as fiction... because it’s not fictional enough to avoid comparison. It’s being told in a historical context in real life locations. I don’t care about the magic aspects and it’s really transparent to me that they’re there to let Tanya join the army - she can “reasonably” be a little girl soldier that way! It’s also there to be sort of a vehicle for “God’s Blessings” like with the Revenge Man I guess, but yeah... inserting mage factions into the German army doesn’t make it an AU when literally everything else is the exact same as real life. 

(Oh, and I also hate the drastic style differences between Tanya and the blue-eyed melting face girl compared to literally everyone else, who are adult males with varied, detailed, proportionate faces.)

Maybe if this were a show that covered the same topics and themes, but in an actual AU world, and following a character that isn’t a literal f*scist little girl, we’d have had something pretty compelling. But as it is, I can only describe it as messy.