Seriously Though. I Hate This "we Must Reject Ii" Ass Ending Sm.

Seriously though. I hate this "we must reject ii" ass ending sm.

y'know i think that the part that fucks up ii as a whole is to know that none of the characters even had a choice to be the way they are, and how mephone4 never found people who actually loved him, and how cobs ended up being right. like the whole point of ii wasn't the show or the contestants. ii was a show about love, connection, moving on and growing as people. the whole appeal of it was that every character had accountability for the way they are, and how they feel like genuine people too, and how invested you'd get on everything they went through. the whole appeal of it was how human the characters felt, how complex they are, how they learn and how they grow.

so learning that they didn't even have a chance to choose who they are or how they'd act feels extremely hollow and empty. it feels like the worst type of closure you can ever give to characters. it feels like it was never meant to be taken that seriously and that ruins it. so many arcs go around accountability and your own actions. nickel had a whole breakdown over the idea that balloon was only friends with him because of the luck, but are you really just telling me that oh. that was going to happen anyway. literally anything that made ii appealing was stripped away from it.

are you really telling me that Mephone4, the guy who just wanted closure and love, to find people who saw him as a human, ended up creating all of them? And they were all programmed to act on a certain way? They weren't even like, vessels that got their own souls on their own. Just. Straight up made them without knowing. That he never found people who actually loved him and allowed him to grow? That he just made them up? And you're treating him as a kid that didn't know any better? When he is an abuse victim that was the product of a war? Putting him through pain he didn't even want?

Giving the reason to the abuser? To Cobs?

It doesn't matter if we get an ACT 3 or whatever. Because, really. What's left to do there. Everything was pointless. A show that was about love and connections got assasinated from the thing that representated it the most. Sure they could get them back, give them a "happy ending". But so many characters were off in Act 2. So many things that go against pre-established ones happen. Mephone4 wrote how they'd act and everything. What's the point.