How am I supposed to feel about Robot? Because they make him do the most heinous, tyrannical, and cruel shit, add on him attempting to genocide a bloodline out of petty jealousy, and then Kirkman tries to tell me that ultimately Robot is right and Earth is better off with a “benevolent” super-genius shadow dictator and in fact Robot is so smart and correct in his decisions that him and the Immortal working together as eternal autocrats is the best possible leadership for Earth.
Yeah I rarely if ever like plot points that run on “but what if the fascist dictator really made the trains run on time” logic, because it goes contrary to reality and has thousands of holes in it. Going “you made the world better but the price was too steep” is a mistake because it already gives too much credit to the autocrat.
The best thing to do is to have the characters point out that the world isn’t actually better when you cure cancer but also run a murderous security state, and that trusting a single individual to always make the right decisions is really not more logical than entrusting the fate of the people to the people themselves, even if the latter can also be unreliable.
The ending with the Immortal is just… bizarre. It’s like no one’s even thinking about genuine democracy as an option and the concept of a benevolent god-king is kinda taken at face value. And if we’re supposed to assume that this leads to the evil Immortal future, then that means the comic ends on a really ghoulish note for Earth, which is depressing and kinda makes you wonder what was even the point.
I hope the show version of the events will be more coherent on what exactly the message on autocracy is.
Comic ended very “happily ever after”. Post comic, yeah I wonder if immortal goes evil or whatever.
Because the one thing I felt really didn’t have a payoff was the time travel thing. He was told he doomed everything by leaving, but he saved everything and everyone minus his dad. So is that like post comics then?
How am I supposed to feel about Robot? Because they make him do the most heinous, tyrannical, and cruel shit, add on him attempting to genocide a bloodline out of petty jealousy, and then Kirkman tries to tell me that ultimately Robot is right and Earth is better off with a “benevolent” super-genius shadow dictator and in fact Robot is so smart and correct in his decisions that him and the Immortal working together as eternal autocrats is the best possible leadership for Earth.
What’s the message here?
Yeah I rarely if ever like plot points that run on “but what if the fascist dictator really made the trains run on time” logic, because it goes contrary to reality and has thousands of holes in it. Going “you made the world better but the price was too steep” is a mistake because it already gives too much credit to the autocrat.
The best thing to do is to have the characters point out that the world isn’t actually better when you cure cancer but also run a murderous security state, and that trusting a single individual to always make the right decisions is really not more logical than entrusting the fate of the people to the people themselves, even if the latter can also be unreliable.
The ending with the Immortal is just… bizarre. It’s like no one’s even thinking about genuine democracy as an option and the concept of a benevolent god-king is kinda taken at face value. And if we’re supposed to assume that this leads to the evil Immortal future, then that means the comic ends on a really ghoulish note for Earth, which is depressing and kinda makes you wonder what was even the point.
I hope the show version of the events will be more coherent on what exactly the message on autocracy is.
Comic ended very “happily ever after”. Post comic, yeah I wonder if immortal goes evil or whatever.
Because the one thing I felt really didn’t have a payoff was the time travel thing. He was told he doomed everything by leaving, but he saved everything and everyone minus his dad. So is that like post comics then?