Babylon Episode 12 Discussion

Dr_Kon said:
What a pile of incohesive nonsesense that was, despite the interesting initial premise and setting. It had the potential to become a great mystery/thriller like Monster (but obviously with fewer episodes than Monster), where Seizaki would be a man on a journey to find answers like Tenma and Magase would be the equivalent mysterious person that Johan Liebert was.

Instead, the writer decided to go on a tangent halfway and forcefully introduce a number of different and incohesive philosophical concept that he probably remembered that he read in Michael Sandel's book ''Justice'' to sugarcoat his story as a sophisticated one, as well as introducing a bunch of extra unnecessary characters. In reality it was some superficial crap to make his audience believe that the story actually delved into some deep philosophical thinking and contemplation when in reality the whole show only managed to scratch the surface of a number of different concepts without any concrete moral of the story or a satisfying conclusion. Because taking 12 incohesive episodes to conclude all of a sudden that "to continue" is "good" and to "end" is "bad" is not really a conlcusion, it is pure autism and a waste of time.

The only true moral of the story, similar to Kado series written by same guy, is that the author never misses a Monday doing drugs. What a disappointment and waste of a good premise this series was. I can foresee, however, this show is going to create a smaller in numbers cult-like supporter base similar to Evangelion where they are going to tell everyone else the epic meme: "if you didn't like this show, then it absolutely means you didn't understand it" sort of thing.