#shikabane's 'why bother' and the sentiment of 'we vote new people in but nothing ever changes' is also a big. HMMMMM

[vanillashusband]

I finished aggr/etsuko season 5 and. hm. I have some Thoughts

I normally don't talk about the media I watch unless its f/o related but its been bugging me so spoilers below!

ok. this season really felt a lot like all the themes of previous seasons were coming to a head and all the pieces were coming into place but then... they just wasted it. idk just all the talk of how life just sucks and there needs to be a change I really thought that retsuko was gonna usher in that change. as someone who was so desperate to get out of the "work grind" cycle of wake up, work, go home and repeat in previous seasons that she wanted to rush into getting married purely to escape from her shitty job just to go right back to that after when she found an obvious passion in otemgirls. like. i saw other people also discussing how it kinda sucked and that retsuko will never take risks and will always return to the status quo. and this season just kinda cemented that. haida experiencing how awful it is to be down on his luck, struggling with addiction, and being homeless. seeing other people struggling with that. shikabane struck me immediately as a hikikomori and seeing both of them stuck in their own cycles of shorts hit a cord with me. haida's speech about change and how if you try to change things and rock the boat you will be thrown overboard without another thought and left to drown only for the show to drop the ball was really unsatisfying to me. its like the show doesn't acknowledge its own message and just shut down season 5s ongoing theme and everything leading up to retsuko running for office to stick her right back where she was to maintain the status quo. and retsuko and haida dating felt so sudden to me hkjghfjg (and i'm totally not saying that because i've had a stupid gay crush on haida since season 1 but have been too self conscious and afraid to ship with him 🙄) and them GETTING MARRIED??? it was so out of no where to me and they just. rushed into it. idk even though they were dating there was nothing that made you think they were in love. like its not a children's cartoon but there wasn't even any hand holding or anything and haida maybe called retsuko a pet name like. once khjgfkjgf it just felt weird to me tbh (I'M NOT JEALOUS /j). all in all it was kinda... "eh..." to me jklgjhfj I really expected retsuko to beat jiro and be the voice to the tired and beaten masses like her who want OUT of their suffocating cycles and become the prime minister cause why the fuck not?? weirder stuff has happened hgjfdg but that would be too anti-capitalistic i guess 🙄

anyway. those are my thoughts hdfjgdf nonsensical and dumb please don't take it seriously