It’s nice to find a place with opinions close to my experience. YouTube is full of praise, and it was good in some aspects, but the pacing and especially the writing was disappointing to me.

[Spoilers]. Viktor is my biggest pet peeve. He goes from trying to eradicate suffering to trying to unify consciousness (huh?) to changing his mind too fast even within his world.

[More spoilers]. He’s a genius with increased capacities, but apparently, it didn’t occur to him that that’s how the world would look and feel like. He’s almost a prophet, a philosopher in many senses, but Jayce tells him “life is good even with its imperfections” and poof!, convinced, as it wasn’t the status quo to think that way and as if he didn’t even consider it in the past. But no, let’s make the animated philosophical pessimist/negative utilitarian a radical that loses-it-just-because.

[Spoilers continue]. And the worst of all is the enormous contradiction, as he creates a state with no suffering, but somehow, he feels bored, nostalgic, longing… Those are ways of suffering! If that state wasn’t enough, then it wasn’t the objective and it wasn’t the correct state. But no, the message had to be “life can be terrible, but embrace it because the hive-mind we are posing as non-existence seems sad from here (although it wouldn’t be sad from there; we’ll ignore that); also, let’s ditch the message about fighting for at least improving its conditions because that’s communism or something”. Shitty feel-good message. They can do a wholesome, feel-good show without ruining a character and without invalidating their own characters’ experiences.

[Mini spoiler]. In short, It was frustrating to watch Viktor unjustified descent, while real problems were not addressed.