Sweet Tooth Season 1 Thoughts
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iariaI really enjoyed it.
+ I really like the mix of sweet and horrifying, of funny and sad. I feel like the show balanced it really well. It's a terrible apocalyptic future, horrible things happen and people do horrible things, but there is this definite sense of optimism and compassion/humanity that I really liked. The final scene in the finale really encapsulated the sweet/horrifying mix where Gus has a really heartwarming first meeting with other hybrids that ended in a group hug and it was lovely but then it's inter-cut with the poor frog hybrid being taken and presumably murdered in his place.
+ The cinematography is wonderful. I loved how bright and colourful and lush the show so often is. There was some lovely directing choices. There were great choices in sets - Aimee's zoo refuge was great. The makeup on Gus and Wendy was excellent. I loved Gus's ears and just want to pet them.
+ Gus/Jepperd are very much the heart of the show and their relationship and how the bond grows between them was wonderful. I loved them. Jeppard being all gruff 'I don't care' outside but at heart a kind and deeply wounded man was great. I love how Gus is basically a ball of optimistic sunshine that refuses to let Jeppard shut him out.
+ I liked Bear. I liked her care for Gus, I liked her bickering with Jepperd.
+ I am super intrigued by Gus's connection to animals and the way they listen to him. Do the other hybrids have that ability or is he special? I need that to be explored more.
+ Is the reason that Gus and Wendy can talk because they had parents that loved them?
+ I really liked both parental relationships - Gus/Pubba and Wendy/Aimee were both really lovely.
+ On the one hand, I think the show spent significant time in making Aditya Singh sympathetic, and he is, but on the other hand, murdering and experimenting on children is a hard no regardless of reason (even saving his wife, even looking for a cure).
+ One of the scariest moments was poor Doug's fate. The way everyone turns on him so immediately, how the tied him up and left him to burn alive when they set his house on fire, and then stood outside while it burned was all just horrifying. And poor Rani and Adi, who are also horrified but are even more terrified because they know that could be turned on them at any moment.
+ I did love that little moment between Adi and Gus and Adi's realisation that Gus is in fact a child and human. I'm sure the story is heading to Gus saving Adi from himself, and possibly saving the world from the virus, but I'm interested in seeing how it happens.
+ The reveal that Bear and Tiger essentially started the Animal Army together after meeting and becoming friends as orphans really changed how their relationship in 1x04 came off. I wonder if Bear's lie about her parents' death came about when they first met and Bear told it to better fit in/connect with Tiger over shared anger/grief (in the way kids lie to fit in)? If Bear's anger/hatred towards Last Men is based entirely on their killing of hybrids because protecting hybrids (like she couldn't her sister) is her first priority and Tiger's anger/hatred towards Last Men is actually based on a murdered family (that Bear only pretended was her motivation) then Tiger's rage and coup against Bear in 1x04 works even better. It all makes me really hope Tiger returns in season 2.
+ I feel like Johnny is such a minor character but gets a surprising amount of characterisation that he has to be more important going forward. His proud/pleased smile when he tells Adi that he released his horse to be free made me go hmm. It was a kindness but also the way he relayed it struck me as strange. His short moment of kindness to Gus is almost more horrifying the the cool disregard of all the other soldiers considering he was taking him to be murdered. And finally I'm curious about what his previous implied screw-up might have been. Is he how Wendy ended up with Aimee? Did he let Birdie escape with her research? I feel like it has to tie into one of the other stories somehow. Another question - if he did mess up bad enough that Abbott is telling him not to mess up why is he also leaving him in charge of an important task like moving the Singh's? Is Johnny his son/relative?
+ I want to see more of the average person/family and how they are dealing with this hybrid situation. If only hybrids are being born then there has to be a fair number of people who are having kids and loving them regardless, right? Sure the Last Man are apparently clinging to the belief that a cure can be found and people will start having normal babies again but as is it's been over a decade and I have a hard time believing that everyone's been so horrified by the hybrids that they've decided to stop having kids all together. That's crazy. That is literally the end of humanity right there. It also makes me wonder how other countries are coping. Have some embraced hybrid children?
+ I really like the mix of sweet and horrifying, of funny and sad. I feel like the show balanced it really well. It's a terrible apocalyptic future, horrible things happen and people do horrible things, but there is this definite sense of optimism and compassion/humanity that I really liked. The final scene in the finale really encapsulated the sweet/horrifying mix where Gus has a really heartwarming first meeting with other hybrids that ended in a group hug and it was lovely but then it's inter-cut with the poor frog hybrid being taken and presumably murdered in his place.
+ The cinematography is wonderful. I loved how bright and colourful and lush the show so often is. There was some lovely directing choices. There were great choices in sets - Aimee's zoo refuge was great. The makeup on Gus and Wendy was excellent. I loved Gus's ears and just want to pet them.
+ Gus/Jepperd are very much the heart of the show and their relationship and how the bond grows between them was wonderful. I loved them. Jeppard being all gruff 'I don't care' outside but at heart a kind and deeply wounded man was great. I love how Gus is basically a ball of optimistic sunshine that refuses to let Jeppard shut him out.
+ I liked Bear. I liked her care for Gus, I liked her bickering with Jepperd.
+ I am super intrigued by Gus's connection to animals and the way they listen to him. Do the other hybrids have that ability or is he special? I need that to be explored more.
+ Is the reason that Gus and Wendy can talk because they had parents that loved them?
+ I really liked both parental relationships - Gus/Pubba and Wendy/Aimee were both really lovely.
+ On the one hand, I think the show spent significant time in making Aditya Singh sympathetic, and he is, but on the other hand, murdering and experimenting on children is a hard no regardless of reason (even saving his wife, even looking for a cure).
+ One of the scariest moments was poor Doug's fate. The way everyone turns on him so immediately, how the tied him up and left him to burn alive when they set his house on fire, and then stood outside while it burned was all just horrifying. And poor Rani and Adi, who are also horrified but are even more terrified because they know that could be turned on them at any moment.
+ I did love that little moment between Adi and Gus and Adi's realisation that Gus is in fact a child and human. I'm sure the story is heading to Gus saving Adi from himself, and possibly saving the world from the virus, but I'm interested in seeing how it happens.
+ The reveal that Bear and Tiger essentially started the Animal Army together after meeting and becoming friends as orphans really changed how their relationship in 1x04 came off. I wonder if Bear's lie about her parents' death came about when they first met and Bear told it to better fit in/connect with Tiger over shared anger/grief (in the way kids lie to fit in)? If Bear's anger/hatred towards Last Men is based entirely on their killing of hybrids because protecting hybrids (like she couldn't her sister) is her first priority and Tiger's anger/hatred towards Last Men is actually based on a murdered family (that Bear only pretended was her motivation) then Tiger's rage and coup against Bear in 1x04 works even better. It all makes me really hope Tiger returns in season 2.
+ I feel like Johnny is such a minor character but gets a surprising amount of characterisation that he has to be more important going forward. His proud/pleased smile when he tells Adi that he released his horse to be free made me go hmm. It was a kindness but also the way he relayed it struck me as strange. His short moment of kindness to Gus is almost more horrifying the the cool disregard of all the other soldiers considering he was taking him to be murdered. And finally I'm curious about what his previous implied screw-up might have been. Is he how Wendy ended up with Aimee? Did he let Birdie escape with her research? I feel like it has to tie into one of the other stories somehow. Another question - if he did mess up bad enough that Abbott is telling him not to mess up why is he also leaving him in charge of an important task like moving the Singh's? Is Johnny his son/relative?
+ I want to see more of the average person/family and how they are dealing with this hybrid situation. If only hybrids are being born then there has to be a fair number of people who are having kids and loving them regardless, right? Sure the Last Man are apparently clinging to the belief that a cure can be found and people will start having normal babies again but as is it's been over a decade and I have a hard time believing that everyone's been so horrified by the hybrids that they've decided to stop having kids all together. That's crazy. That is literally the end of humanity right there. It also makes me wonder how other countries are coping. Have some embraced hybrid children?
