Take a bunch of sheltered early 20th century peasants and tell them they are the best soldiers in the world. Send them off to war with instructions to kill one of two groups of people that look the same, sound the same, dress the same and carry the same weapons. They were never meant to survive.
We will not be rewatching that. I couldn't make heads or tails if it when it was on the first time and I'm definitely not trying to revisit it. But it is that bad.
We are working our way through it now. The first season is absolute trash that is so dull and slow that it's almost impossible to watch. After that things pick up and start getting good. I'm told that you can skip the first season and come back and watch it later with an understanding of everything it's setting up. But I decided to watch the first season in proper order.
That's certainly one way to read it. Except you don't know anything else about me. The problem isn't the interest in other identities. The problem is the complete clusterfuck of identities presented in that headline. Each additional descriptor narrows down the field of people it's talking about until you end up with n=1. It's so incredibly niche that most people, including myself, can't even picture what must be going on in the heads of these people. Maybe if there was a poster child that would help. But it would take a 30 minute podcast interview to delve into all of those aspects and help it all make sense. Just trying to square the religion plus anarchy section makes the brain hurt. And then we get more niche after that.
Each day on Lemmy I scroll and scroll and then I reach a headline where after reading it I have to parse what it says. And then I realize it's gibberish. And then I realize it's the bottom of the feed and what I'm reading has a negative score.
And that's why I buy $5 pocket knives. I'm not spending twice as much to wait two weeks for a replacement when I depend on my pocket knife every single day.
I try to BIFL whenever I can but this is one case where the trade-off of a cheap knife are better.
No, seriously, every day. I'm a handyman. I'm lost without my pocket knife. I have to replace one about every two years.
Take a bunch of sheltered early 20th century peasants and tell them they are the best soldiers in the world. Send them off to war with instructions to kill one of two groups of people that look the same, sound the same, dress the same and carry the same weapons. They were never meant to survive.