Adventures and Anarchism | Amphibia
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2024
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THE POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF AMPHIBIA THAT LITERALLY NOBODY ASKED FOR! Amphibia is a fun and quirky show that if you look into the various themes and problems within the franchise, the answer always comes back to hierarchy
I did not expect a video on a cartoon to be so based.
Can you do a video about My Adventures With Superman?
All hierarchy are bad, including justified hierarchy.
Example:a doctor refused to help someone if they refuse to obey them.
A justified hierarchy is only good if its to make everyone somewhat equally skilled That there is no need for justified hierarchy
I like the show, watched around 2021
10:23 You can still have money and not taxes, Replace taxes with charity.
10:29 I read about the Inca Empire, a interesting empire, But eveything was Not Fine, sure they had no money, but they had Forced labour, all the plebs had to work while the Nobles and their Courts didnt.
12:00 Captlism is the best system we have. Also we dont live in purly captlistic society, its a corporatist society with a decent amout of socialism
20:24 Hierarchy exist every where you cant really get ride of them, just promote the good ones. Anarchism fails in the end because after it accomplishes it goal which is to get ride of hiercrarchy, it just leaves a Power Vacum that make it possiable for a tryant to take over
22:03 Fight and creating a democracy yeah!
23:49 We are a fundimatal hierarchy species, example (the family unit)
26:51 3/4 of these movements are a joke, but yeah it is a good thing to have a movemet to change society for the better Rather then going to voilence.
28:50 That is a good quote!
Just some though i had while watching the video. Goodd video overall! Have a good day!
How is capitalism the best?/genq
Oooo can you do a revisit review of this show now that it's concluded?
I'm pretty sure you were more right than wrong
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There are fans who feel that the ending was extremely disappointing and that permanently separating the Calamity Trio from their found frog families, as opposed to two-way transportation, is too bleak an idea to end on. They feel that it is a waste of a perfectly good found family plot, and that found family doesn't typically break up under such circumstances. Most fans tend to focus on Sasha, Anne, and Marcy splitting up for several years, and it often flies under the radar as a criticism.
Season 1 is generally criticized by fans for the massive amount of filler present in it, The Plantars are a generic sitcom family comprised of tired archetypes and are, at best, boring and unentertaining, and at worst, annoying and unlikable. Season 3 in general even by most fans is considered badly written. Its failure to address some of the consequences of the emotionally-intense "True Colors", such as Anne's feelings about being betrayed by Sasha, Marcy, and Andrias, not emotionally processing watching Marcy get stabbed, not having Anne confront Sasha and Marcy's parents.
It is lacking any more focus episodes for Sasha or Marcy, with both of them each getting one focus episode where the former's redemption is incredibly rushed the latter gets possessed and doesn't fully confront the consequences of her actions until the penultimate episode, or featuring characters from the show's titular location much.
While the fandom is split on the writing of Season 3A, it is generally agreed that it is a step down from Season 2, particularly "True Colors". Many fans agree season 3 to be the weakest one since it doesn't discuss the angst that Anne and the Plantars endured was brushed off easily. What's more is that an analysis by The Roundtable criticized how Anne is basically having the time of her life while her best friends are literally suffering in Amphibia.
While things started to get back on track once Anne and the Plantars eventually made their way back to Amphibia and joined the resistance, the second half also received criticism for its Four Lines, All Waiting nature, with several episodes focusing solely on recruiting an old character (some of which appeared only in a single episode prior) for the upcoming battle against Darcy and King Andrias. "Mother of Olms" and "Sprivy" are both what many fans consider' the only real duds in Season 3: the former is disliked by many for being an out of place grossout episode that wasted months of build-up and a talented guest star (Whoopi Goldberg)
The latter is often disliked because of Sprig and Ivy spending the entire episode as Sickeningly Sweethearts while in the middle of a war, despite the two never acting this way in previous episodes, as well as being overdramatic at the very idea of splitting up even if it's just for 5 minutes. Regardless, fans still find the episode jarring and cringey because of their cheesy lovey-dovey romance, and prioritizing their relationship over the lives of their friends, families, and allies (a sentiment shared In-Universe). Some fans even say that the episode ruined or permanently killed the Sprivy ship for them.
The show is complete garbage in season 3. Their are no consequences, literally none. Anne disappearing for 5 months turns into a no big deal situation, when it should have major story and character problems in terms of school, other friends, relatives of Marcy and Sasha etc. The FBI agent presented had a lot of potential as a side villain but came off as a clutz that messes up and is super clumsy and foolish. How about a rewrite where the character actually is trying to overcome an issue like being made fun of for trying to find aliens, and work super hard to find them to clear their name, rather then what we got. Someone who uses their brain and wit to out do the nay Sayers. That is more interesting in my opinion. The robot that legit was not going stealth mode anymore that should of reaped way more consequences then just being written off like eh it doesn't matter, half the city saw that dude rolling around the streets trying to murder a 13yr old.
I understand that the target audience is meant for young children however as a show that has to go against other shows that are for young children this is getting worse and worse by each passing episode, and I think its because of the writers they have on the show. Their are already too many plot holes, to many inconstancies, and too much character development being turned around. Shows like Owl House, Avatar the Last Airbender, etc have so so so much better writing then this, I have little faith this show will end good at this point. In fact I am expecting to be disappointed with the ending.
Anne is a bland teenage girl stereotype. Sprig is an overly-optimistic adventurer who cracks terrible jokes along the way. Hop Pop is just the terribly-overused Grumpy Old Man seen in hundreds of cartoons. Almost nothing new is brought to the table with him.
I’d only like to bring up your first point about the show’s ending, considering that everything else is just heavily opinionated.
Said fans don’t understand what the story was trying to tell by having the Calamity Trio be separated from their Found Families. You could say what you want about the seasons or the story featured within the show, but you can’t deny that there was a consistent message throughout the series: saying goodbye and looking toward the future.
Even in the first episode, Anne learns not exactly to let go of her old friends, but to allow herself to be happy and make some new ones (Sprig, Polly, HP). This would be an example of looking toward the future.
Sasha has an entire arc about how she’s basically saying goodbye to her old manipulative self. Even if rushed, it’s still easy to understand at its root.
The only reason why the girls are in Amphibia in the first place was because Marcy was scared of letting go of their friendship. Of course, we all know how this arc ends.
All this to say, the show had a good idea on the theme of letting go. Whether it was executed in the best way is up for discussion.
Having the Calamity Trio say goodbye to their found families makes sense. Amphibia was a learning and meaningful experience for them that unfortunately couldn’t last forever. But instead of staying in said experience, the girls learn to move on with their happy memories and look toward the future.
And also, it’s realistic that the girls split up over the years. It happens with many friendships in real life and I believe that’s what the show was trying to represent.
The reason why it makes sense for the characters in TOH to stay together is because one of the core themes is that weirdos have to stick together. It’s literally something that’s reiterated in the show numerous times. What people need to understand is that while TOH and Amphibia have similar concepts, they will always be two different shows with two different themes, which are the driving causes toward their endings.
Amphibia had the Calamity Trio split from their found families because the theme was letting go. Fans that felt disappointed are likely fans that took it too close to heart. While the ending was a tear-jerker even for me, it does make sense either way.
Also I’d like to mention your last paragraph. There’s some mischaracterization here.
Anne was MEANT to be the stereotypical teenage girl. It’s explained in “All In” that she was just one that always took the easy way without a care in life. It’s toward the end where she finally becomes a more responsible girl who is starting to find her own self.
Hop Pop is a stereotypical grumpy old man… but at the same time, his character still has levels. Despite them never truly being properly explored. You can see this in how taking care of his grandkids and Anne, even after Sprig and Polly’s parents were attacked and killed by herons very briefly in “All In”. It’s debatable whether his story is properly fleshed out. But it isn’t accurate to say he’s just a regular old man from every other cartoon.
Sprig is “overly optimistic” because Anne does need that support in her situation. She’s trapped in a whole other world where she mostly has no idea where her friends are, how she’ll get out, or how to handle enemies. And even when she does, she’s still taking on a whole new layer of confusion when figuring out her calamity powers. Even if you find his optimism rather annoying, it’s still a good quality considering Anne needed that support in her time in Amphibia.
A lot of this so heavily opinionated, but I feel like the show can be more enjoyable when you stop and consider that maybe a few choices were made for a reason.
Amphibia is a Trash Series.
The only morally ambigious thing that Anne ever did throughout the entire series was stealing from a store. And she had to be peer pressured into doing that. Anne clearly didn't want to steal and she clearly felt guilt & remorse immediately afterwards for it. Throughout the rest of the series. She is just a generic nice girl helping everyone.
Amphibia was just a trash show from start to finish. One Dimensional Characters, Constant Asspulls, Zero Character Development. No real Plot. Most of the Show in general is just boring filler, Full of Constant Inconsistencies. Cringeworthy Attempts at Humor, Constant References, Disconnected Plot Lines, Boring Fight Scenes, Predictable Power of Friendship Victories, Cartoony One Dimensional Villains with no real goals outside of I am Evil because I want to be. And then there is the extremely toxic Amphibia Fanbase that makes the Steven Universe Fanbase look like Heroic Saints by comparison.
So Anne went from being heroic, mischievous & willing to help people at the beginning of the Amphibia Series to being heroic, willing to help people while somewhat mischievous at the end of the series. Literally nothing changed about her.
Amphibia was just a badly written series & garbage TV Series from the Start. It clearly wasn't planned out at all. There was no foreshadowing. One Dimensional Characters, Constant Asspulls, Zero Character Development. No real Plot. Most of the Show in general is just boring filler, Full of Constant Inconsistencies.
The show is also full of Cringeworthy Attempts at Humor, Constant References, Disconnected Plot Lines, Boring Fight Scenes, Predictable Power of Friendship Victories, Cartoony One Dimensional Villains with no real goals outside of I am Evil because I want to be. And then there is the extremely toxic Amphibia Fanbase that makes the Steven Universe Fanbase look like Heroic Saints by comparison.
Unlike Anne, who is extremely apologetic for nearly getting them killed, Sprig is exhilarated that a snake nearly ate them and that he defeated it by diving down its throat to douse it with death peppers. He tells Anne it was the best day of his life before conking out on her bedspread.
Due to living in a Death World, the Amphibians in general are very accustomed to the idea of death. When catching an apparently deadly disease, the Plantars accept their fate with serenity. This is not too dissimilar to medieval European attitudes to death in real life due to the high mortality rate then.
Sasha was captured by the toads, chained up, and forced to confront the idea that Anne was missing in the wilderness after Grime found her shoe, with no way of knowing that Anne was okay. She spends her days convincing her guards to quit by being nice to them, and happily agrees to be Grime's second-in-command.
Marcy of all people shows no trauma about the change in circumstances. In fact, she Took a Level in Badass and tells Anne that she's much tougher than she was back at home, so she doesn't need protecting. It gets lampshaded when Sprig is suspicious that Marcy is another Sasha, and Anne has to admit she's worried about losing her other human friend to the natural predators while Sasha is now her enemy. Then it turns out to be darkly justified; Marcy stranded the girls there on purpose, and refused to open up about moving.
A point of contention with season 3 is how Anne barely frets over Marcy, who she last saw getting impaled through the back with a flaming sword, instead enjoying hanging out with her family when not doing portal research.
Now that she's told them everything, they know that she's the only one with a chance of stopping Andrias given her powers and connection to the Calamity Box. Andrias also wants Anne dead, has sent robots to Earth to murder her, and knows enough about Los Angeles culture to infiltrate it.
Anne mentions how Amphibia itself will try and murder you if you even try to pick some tomato plants, and she won't be available by phone the minute she's on the other side. Yet Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy tell Anne they trust her to save both worlds, and only request that she comes back safe. Of course, they proceed to berate Mr. X for how badly he misjudged the situation and endangered their daughter during said portal testing...
Kristen Schaal's guest appearance in season 2 makes it seem pretty odd that they didn't also include her in the same season's Gravity Falls homage.
There are those who are disappointed about Sprig and Maddie's engagement ending, as she seemed to truly like Sprig and they feel she's a far more interesting character than Ivy.
In the season 1 finale, "Reunion", it is revealed that Hop Pop's run for mayor of Wartwood led to frog rebellions across the valley, leading to the events of that episode. The rebellions, however, go completely unseen for the entirety of the show.
They also end up not contributing to the main plot any further than the events of that episode, and Grime and Sasha's attempts to quell the rebellion simply result in the dissolution of their division of the Toad Army, and the frog rebellions in Frog Valley are mostly forgotten, only being alluded to afterwards at best.
Likewise, Grime and Sasha's toad rebellion is also mentioned by General Yunan in "The First Temple", but is only seen in "True Colors" attempting to invade Newtopia, only to serve as a quickly disposed-of Disc-One Final Boss that only serves as a major threat in the first half of the episode, being forgotten in the second half of the episode aside from the destruction of North Toad Tower.
Despite season 3A taking place on Earth, with a few characters commenting on Anne's disappearance, Sasha and Marcy's involvement and the ramifications of it is never even touched upon, with the two's parents not even appearing once. Furthermore, considering how Anne gave their families letters in "Froggy Little Christmas," one would expect at least a mention of it, yet the consequences of Anne doing this are pretty much ignored.
At the very least, an episode or a scene featuring the Wu and Waybright families worrying about the other two would've made a lot of sense, since Anne's parents fretted over her when she came back.
"Toad To Redemption" set up Bog and his gang eventually returning as antagonists in a later episode, but they never reappear as an antagonist in any episode at all, at best making a background cameo in "Beginning of the End". Same goes for the grubhog, whose last major appearance set up a conflict or war, but also only returns in a background cameo in the same episode.
Ivy never interacts with her grandmother Sylvia, and Felicia, Sylvia's own daughter, interacts with her only once.
Felicia Sundew is given an interesting background of having been a world traveler in “Ivy On The Run”. This backstory of hers, along with the fact that she met Ivy's father sometime during her tea travels, is never brought up again, nor is Felicia given more than a couple of lines for the rest of the show.
Despite starting up a friendship in "Maddie & Marcy" (being Marcy's first friendship outside Anne and Sasha that didn't involve manipulation or superficial reasons), Marcy and Maddie's friendship is never brought up again afterward with Maddie never reacting to Marcy going missing in "Turning Point" or even finding out about Darcy as well as neither saying goodbye to one another individually in the series finale. Additionally, some thought that Maddie being able to raise the dead (albeit imperfectly and only shown for animals) should have played some role in resolving Marcy's apparent death at the end of season 2.
The subplot dealing with how people of Earth is handling the coming invasion of Andrias is also left untold.
There are fans who feel disappointed on Sasha and Marcy's minimal interaction with each other outside of Anne which could've provided good opportunities for both of their Character Development considering each others' own betrayals revealed in "True Colors".
Adding to the above, Sasha and Marcy's Calamity Powers were only fully shown in the Grand Finale, with their eyes only glowing once in Season 2 before the stones got charged. Unlike Anne, both were unable to unlock the full extent of their powers. Furthermore, Sasha using her powers or possibly having a Traumatic Superpower Awakening like Anne did in "True Colors" during her fight with Darcy in "All In" could've been an interesting scenario to see. Likewise, Marcy awakening her Calamity form while possessed by the Core would've been compelling as well.
Why don't you make a video of real places where anarchism worked and how they ended up collapsing?
Anarchism don't collapse, they just become hierarchies.
@@blackpowderkun well I meant collapse in the sense that other nations somehow overpower them. Not just from within
@@LightGlyphRasengan Napoleonic France, I think, but he already crowned himself emperor when he fought the allied nation.
@@LightGlyphRasengan Looking up examples where traditional hierarchy are abolished in favor of meritocracy are terrifying good at crushing their enemies
No anarchist movement to my knowledge, have really collapsed from within, they were usually crushed by outside forces, like for example the Ukrainian free territories or Makhnovshchina, an anarchist rebellion in Ukraine led by of course the Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary Nestor Makhno was brutally crushed by the Bolsheviks when an anarchist tried to assassinate Lenin because of his increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic behavior like disbanding many of the worker councils slowly but surely strengthening State control over means of production instead of what Lenin originally promised the workers and farmers of Russia that they will control means of production and setting up a secret police system to suppress and crackdown on descent and oppositions groups like the mensheviks and the left SRs and in general acting like an asshole. I'm an anarchist btw or like a libertarian socialist or an anarcho-syndicalist, and Lenin to be honest he did betray the Revolution and his actions did set into motion the cascading events would lead to the empowerment of Stalin, which yes he disliked Stalin in many ways calling him a dangerous psychopath, Lenin probably wanted either Trotsky or Bukharin or maybe even Kirov, anyway why did Anarchist Ukraine failed, it was because well i don't if you know anything about history 1920s Ukraine and most of the former Russian Empire was a hellhole of civil war, famine, massacres, political oppression and massive disease epidemics, so it's no wonder that anarchist ukraine crushed got crushed by soviets, they were outnumbered, outgunned, outmanned. And another anarchist that got crushed was Revolutionary Catalonia, which was an anarcho-syndicalist government in Catalonia, so did it falied, Stalin-backed Spainsh Republic didn't worked together with the anarchists to stop the fascist francoist nationalist and in fact arrested many of them, and then Revolutionary Catalonia and the Spanish Republic crushed by Franco, mostly because of the Spanish Republic's incompetent leadership and Catalonian anarchist were outnumbered, outguned, outmanned. After the victory the Spanish Civil War Franco set up a totalitarian fascist dictatorship in Spain that existed until the 1970s. And finally an anarchist experiment that works and still exist to this day, Rojava or the Autonomous Region of Northeast Syria, based on the concepts of democratic confederalism and libertarian socialism, an impressive experiment with direct democracy and communal living. I think a new york time reporter or something commented that Rojava was unusually free in the region, saying there was no real strong centralized state but patchwork of communes. To end it off here because it's getting little long, so you can't say that some philosophical or economical or whatever theory won't work because it hasn't succeed in real life that's stupid, that's very stupid, what you have is to understand what your criticizing or talking about. If your discussing anarchism you have to have a basic understanding of the philosophies of anarchism
Rewatching and can't help but feel you don't appreciate faffing about that much ☹
Anarchism is the abolishment of Rulers not hierarchy. Democracy & socialism in terms of what leftists describe is not anarchism just another form of authoritarianism. Individualism & capitalism is anarchy for it is voluntary trade & transactions. Our mixed economy isn’t capitalism.
Capitalism is about the accumulation of wealth, our society is built off of that, we are in a capitalist global status quo.
Socialism as authoritarianism is a misconception that fueled both sides of the cold war, the Soviets used it to justify their horrendous leadership and imperialism and the American media used it to justify their own rather mirrored behaviour, although the US never got as horrendous as the Soviet fascist police state.
I am assuming you have not read Marx and Engels' formative works, they laid out the ground work for what could have been a future democratized economy and the idealized communist (fundamentally anarchist) new world disorder.
I hope my long explanation made sense.
Also rulers are a product of anarchy, even then the destruction of rules is still a good thing
TLDR you're not far off from where I stand, at least from what I know. Never mistake socialism for authoritarianism.
TLDR ovah
If you see someone trying to make auth-socialism out to be a good thing, call them out for being the failed leftist that they are. The Nazis liked calling themselves nationalist socialists, which is not far off from auth-socialism, so remember the pattern.
Playing on semantics doesn't make your point. Especially when easily googled history about the overall global anarchist movement contradicts your claims.
Well said! Thats small bit of captlism is what keeping the us and the world going right now, most of it is Socialism or Corporatism. We get Taxed a lot and then when for example you go to buy a service/product there arent many small independed business