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So I have watched with friends the Mother's Basement Shield Hero video. And I will say that much of the video is actually pretty correct. We are fair and balanced here at Mo Black industries. BUT and of course there's a but...Permalink On twitter.com
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The review is supposed to be balanced as he argues that Shield Hero has good and bad things. But all the good things are like "Filo is cool in the action scenes :)" and the bad things are like "The show justifies the institution of slavery and the protagonist is a child groomer"On twitter.com
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Like, I wonder how any of the positives outweigh the negatives? At all? "The portrayal of Malty, up to renaming her Bitch Whore, is genuinely misogynistic and sounds like something an incel would write in their manifesto, but she is so fun on screen so it's a wash :)"Permalink On twitter.com
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And the other thing is that the video does what a lot of analysis people do, and separates the "problematic" stuff from the "writing". He says it's kinda weird and creepy how there's a child slave harem, but it's fine because at least the writing is okayPermalink On twitter.com
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But how is the writing okay when none of the supporting characters have agency, autonomy, or arcs for themselves that don't revolve around the male lead? The show is poorly written because it's built on problematic stuff, they're not unrelated pointsPermalink On twitter.com