To be honest, this drama is different from what I imagined. I thought this was a story about how mortals used flesh and blood to fight against unattainable forces. What I emphasized was a sense of insignificance and powerlessness. But after watching it, you will realize that the super-British players in the drama are also trapped in a kind of powerlessness.
At the beginning of the chat with the two children, I thought that the heroes were taking the idol route, and the situation was roughly the same, except for the homelander. When other heroes worry about being replaced and refrigerated, homelander has always focused on his political goals. Rather than saying that Water is an entertainment company, it is actually more like a party, and homelander is the party leader, or one of the candidate party leaders. In fact, Walter is infiltrating politics step by step. From the law enforcement power he had in the beginning of the film, to the attempt to join the army in the film, Walt seems to want to become a political force that cannot be ignored in the United States or the world.
If you use insidious tricks on the outside without notifying your teammates, and you hide it from me on the inside, this is indeed like a partisanship. But the problem is that when you look at this drama from the perspective of a political drama, it really isn't exciting. Why has the US government not imposed much quality on Chaoying? Why did Walt take such a small step? have no idea.
Let's talk about powerlessness. When we establish the assumption of political drama, and look at other heroes, we will find that they are just a resource for building momentum, and it is the same whether they are changed or not. Therefore, as long as the locomotive's leg is broken once, his self-esteem can be defeated; as long as a case of sexual harassment, the deep sea can be caught by his fins and dare not resist. In the first two episodes, I always felt that beating other Premier Leagues was out of reach, but later on, you will find that you don’t even need to do anything. Just like you want to earn more than a 34-year-old programmer in the Internet industry, the only thing you have to do is to wait for him to be fired at the age of 35. This kind of powerlessness makes me feel no refreshing.
Of course, the homelander can't see the weakness, but how much sense of accomplishment can it have to defeat a giant baby of Oedipus.
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