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This Week in Anime - Carole & Tuesday Tries to Fight the Power

I enjoyed the show, but it's not great.

For one the music didn't live up to season 1 imo, and the whole thing just kinda mary-sued itself towards a conclusion as far as both story and compositions go. Lazy Montages just sort of gave the idea of a struggle. But everything about this was so lazy and convenient, including the background politics and music biz and AI themes.

And the whole immigration issue can't just be boiled down to bleep bloop robotic prejudices that fail to take into account the complexities of war, banking, resource and infrastructure limitations, crime, cultural incompatibility, conflicting religious and ethical beliefs, long standing historic feuds, security, economic viability, language barriers, conspiracy, excess labour vs wages, human trafficing for profit and government grants, demographic replacement, political scoring etc. So the whole message of the show just boils down to one false flag terrorism event being exposed easily enough and everything is okay now. Yeah if only life worked out so well when problems with 9/11 or the Douma 'chemical attack' false report came to light...

I liked the whole end theme of 'motherhood', but everything leading there was just surface level tosh. But I guess the two leads are too adorable, and the cast and setting different enough that the show scrapes by into being entertaining enough. But something much better could've come from this, but shallow writing and lazy conveniences didn't get there or they just chickened out because they wanted the show to be light popcorn fun.

Show should've been about just Carole and Tuesday just being indie underdogs, focused on the difficulties of music creation, everyday life in the neighbourhood with more regular folk and stories that give inspiration for songs, then climaxed with Carole in danger of deportation and Yuesday then having to stand up to her mother and confront her herself after growing from her time together with Carole and away from her sheltered life, and the 'miracle' being some music concert at a refugee camp that moves public opinion, finally casts our musical duo in the spotlight in a viral way, gets the government to hold off on any major rash plans in favor of dialogue with Earth that sees Carole released and the potential of a major record deal and corporate sponsorship for her and others for legit citizenship.

Politics has become so poisonous that once it seeps into any project it becomes the only thing left fairly quickly.

mgosdin wrote:

Politics has become so poisonous that once it seeps into any project it becomes the only thing left fairly quickly.

Interestingly, though, only one end of the political spectrum says things like this.

Don't get me wrong, it certainly bugs me when something is touting politics I don't agree with. And it does often feel like that's the whole reason for its existence; that's the nature of being offended. But I have never complained about the presence of politics in media in general, because that would be dishonest; no one on Earth complains when a story is politically agreeable to them.

However... to more conservative people, often what's most agreeable just doesn't really challenge anything, making it seem that their favorite form of politics is no politics at all. Supporting the status quo is as much of a statement as anything else, though; especially if you complain about any alternative statements made elsewhere.

THANK YOU!!

I did feel really annoyed that the entire show boiled down to a bunch of political stuff instead being about the exploration of music and one's relationship to it.

Grimvice wrote:

THANK YOU!! I did feel really annoyed that the entire show boiled down to a bunch of political stuff instead being about the exploration of music and one's relationship to it.

To be fair the music industry has it's own form of politics.

Interestingly, though, only one end of the political spectrum says things like this.

I think the problem is your original post came off as suggesting that politics just shouldn't be in anime period which would be ridiculous. I mean, if that were the case, somebody better grab a time travel machine and hop back to 1979 and tell Tomino to not kickstart the Gundam franchise as that more often than not has political statements in it.

I realized that wasn't what you meant now (although again the first post could have been worded better), but many others these days do seem so over-sensitive to politics of any kind showing up in any kind of fiction regardless of how it's incorporated into the story that it's gotten tiring hearing these whiners never shut up about it. Take a film like Knives Out, that touches upon the immigration debate but in a fitting way as it shows just yet another way how divided this family is and it serves as a motivation for one of the family to turn against the main character when he discovers something about her. It's a logical inclusion and yet there were still babies crying, "ZOMG, politics, why can't we just have a story be a story?!"

A nice reminder of just how brazenly evil these institutions are to anybody with a functioning brain and heart.