• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Most of human history doesn’t make sense if you scrutinize it enough.

    The US military, the strongest army in the world, was defeated by a bunch of rice farmers? Come on, get some better writers.

    And the atomic bomb. Clearly the writers didn’t know how to end the WW2 story arc so they just came up with this super lazy plot device. And you can see that they don’t have any faith into it since they haven’t used it ever since, hoping that we would just forget about it

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      1 year ago

      ha! And then the spinoff built up the bomb as the big bad for the whole damn series but we never got a payoff, just a wall falling down. LAZY.

      • im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I mean, I guess that was the payoff. Imagine the stakes while the episode air, you think nukes are going to explode but they see that if they fired that they would get destroyed too in the process and decide to make peace

        And then, slowly but inevitably, their rule crumble

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      The US military, the strongest army in the world, was defeated by a bunch of rice farmers? Come on, get some better writers.

      The Vietnamese were a sophisticated guerilla force that had already successfully fought the French and Japanese. They had been fighting in that environment for literal decades.

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      1 year ago

      in the original script of humanity the atomic bomb was supposed to just release glitter but it malfunctioned. Dyslexic Einstein shrugged.

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      1 year ago

      Fair enough.

      I mean, when they brought the Russians back as the villains you could really tell they had run out of ideas.

      • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but I liked that part where he said “It’s Putin time!” and then starts putin all over those guys