Thread:ScaryMovie53/@comment-39032584-20191120035451/@comment-39032584-20191204194823

I'll check that proposal out, thanks. I don't know if my opinion would be super relevant since I only watched the first two seasons of Inuyasha, and therefore, I didn't see the episodes featuring this character. Plus aside from Naraku and what he does, I'm not sure exactly how high or low the bar is set by other comparably more minor antagonists. Most of the ones I saw weren't that bad, but there were at least one or two that stood out as pretty bad in their own right like Gatenmaru and Goshinki. I guess if the proposal isn't informative enough, I can just go by how Taigo compares to the other antagonists I've seen. As for discussing anime, if there's anything in particular you want to ask me about any of those series I like, go right ahead, and I'll happily answer the best that I can and when I can.

As for your question about what I said concerning that the Joker movie has an "almost entirely unsympathetic cast", what I meant was that, quite simply, going by what I know, most of them just don't seem like likeable or decent people in the slightest, and therefore, not the kinds of characters I can bring myself to sympathize or care about. And frankly, it doesn't matter how good a movie or show is otherwise; if I don't care about any of the characters, then I feel a sense of disconnection from the whole thing, because it doesn't really matters to me what happens to any of them. The way I see it, they're not the type of people I'd associate with in real life, especially in cases like this where they just don't seem like good people by any reasonable standard, so why should I be watching a film about them?

And honestly, the problem for me isn't that they tried to put a sympathetic take on a villain like the Joker; it's just that, obviously, he's still not going to be entirely sympathetic since, regardless of what lead him to that point, he still descends into becoming a homicidal lunatic, but then you also have a bunch of characters who mostly just contribute in their own small ways to making him snap rather than making any honest effort to help him. In general, it just seems like one of those movies that's too focused on the ugly side of society and doesn't bother even trying to show any real kindness or goodness from anyone. And as films like Schindler's List prove, it's very much possible to include good people and the positive side of humanity in dark, unpleasant stories that are hard to swallow, which at least gives you something to truly hold onto.