>>92413536>He hasn't changed that much and in fact that's a big part of the angst hereThat's the problem. He HAD changed at the start of the season. Episodes 1-3 he was cynical and hopeless.
He'd felt hopelessness before, but he always came back from it.
This time was a chance to make it more intense, have him make some fucked-up choices, which is ALMOST what happened.
He killed the first daughter and was genuinely conflicted about it, but that character arc went by way too fast.
That should have been the ENTIRE focus of the season, him conflicted over whether or not he should kill to do what he's trying to do.
Think of it like this. Imagine the blind archers scenario. He could have let them stay that way and used the magic to go back to the past, but he didn't.
Replace "leave the archers trapped" with "has to kill the daughters." It's not the most original thing ever but it's something.
You can't just zoom right the fuck past the fact that Jack killed some people. He has one episode of a dilemma about it and that's it.
Fine for the original show, but this one has continuity, it has a story, it's character-focused. If you're gonna focus on character, have ONE arc, not ten small arcs.
Make the ENTIRE SHOW about whether or not he decides to kill.
Make him look back on all the sentient creatures he's killed and have him conflicted because he realizes not being human doesn't make them not alive.
Fuck, give him an episode where he thinks about whether it's even right to kill Aku.
But no, now he's literally exactly the same as he was in the original series. No changes.
Fifty years of being Guts and having murdered all the daughters, all that's gone because he's got a girlfriend.
