Spy x Family Season 3 Episode 8 Discussion

@Sgt_General Kinda. The end of the episode is still presented as a happy ending, because a violence was avoided, which, as far as I am aware, only was possible because of this show's comedy logic. There was no greater point here about how we are all equal, but Billy was simply convinced by Anya because she can read his mind and stuff. Of course, she was still in danger in that situation, and thus she really did stand up to authority, but Anya for once knew that the bomb around her neck was fake, and she knew the danger that remained, and only acted because of it. Billy's thoughts of how these children were themselves suffering, thinking that the east had it far worse than he had thought, those were simply played for comedy, but with these being the brats to fill a few with the largest shoes in the country, they shouldn't have been portrayed as all that happy or privileged in the first place.

The problem is simply that the show already carries a lot of baggage at this point, with us already viewing these characters in certain ways, and this limits this its ability to make a political statement of them, when they are at last sorted into the boxes of social class and hierarchy.

Lastly, I don't think that Billy actually presents an ideological struggle here, as his taking hostages does not actually contradict what he is fighting for. He could wholeheartedly believe that more lives would be saved, more suffering avoided, then would occur because of this incident. If this was a struggle of ways of thinking, then he would from the start have been acting towards these hostages as if they were just kids, after all, his intention would not be their suffering. But this is not the story we get, and so the show is less about empathy for terrorists and actors which our systems deem despicable, but about empathy for Billy, who is just one guy, and I think that's just a bit disappointing.

@Lucianael From your other comments, you seem to be analysing the trees while missing the forest. Ignoble deeds do not accomplish noble ends. You don't make a better world for children by slaughtering children. Billy remembers what his daughter died for. He cannot represent Biddy as her father while also embodying what she opposed.