maandag 14 oktober 2019

(Average+) A Centaur's Life

Series in one sentence:
An Everyone-but-the-centaur's Life.


Series in more sentences:

Human evolution took a different route on this version of Earth, and spawned a large collection of mythological creatures who all work and live together the best they can.
The setting is a "normal" high school, where three friends deal with common situations, though not always in the same manner.



The show grabbed my attention whenever it discussed the world and different species inhabiting it, but the rest hardly made it worth watching. It didn't know if it wanted to seriously explore itself, be a random high school adventure with lesbian undertones, or focus on the life of arguably the least interesting character. Not talking about the centaur, though. Why is this called "A Centaur's Life" if the angel character and her family kept getting their own episodes?

The "romance" the show started off with never went anywhere, and the moments of smut were distracting and pointless. Why are these girls looking and judging each other's vagina? I'm not interested in this, I wanted to learn about them and their species.

I was about to give up on the series, until it introduced the snake student and I decided to stick around a bit longer. Afterwards, more boredom, until it suddenly threw this serious cultural conflict in our faces, followed by a reimagining of a World War 2 working camp. This episode stuck out like a sore thumb, and yet, this thumb was the best thing A Centaur's Life offered.
But, as expected, there's no follow-up and the next episode was just more stupid shit.

There's this whole idea going on in the show that argues that slightly looking at someone the wrong way can be interpreted as racism and end you up being taken to a correctional facility, but the show does NOTHING with this, ever. It only keeps bringing it up. What a waste.
Also, if the world they live in is so thin-skinned that a centaur can't carry her own friends on her back by her free will, how come there exists a popular movie that portrays snake people as monsters?

Would not watch again or recommend.



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