To be clear, Ketil's Farm was a futile battle that they never had a chance of winning against Canute's forces, so I can understand retreating in this case, but Thorfinn's ideology is explicitly cardio-intensive even when the odds are in their favor. It sickens me, and Japan has long been into these navel-gazing "love and peace" messages, when I demand more realism (character-wise) or at least not masochistic pacifism that glorifies getting beaten so hard that the MC looks like the Toxic Avenger with a wig or running with your tail between your legs and sacrificing everything. One can value life without this puerile pacifism so common in anime, where they're so adamant about not killing anyone to the point that the people whom they love are harmed as a result, not to mention, themselves.
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And that's while overlooking how ridiculous it is that Thors can solo a whole band of mercenaries in spite of the "semi-realism" the series is going for or that his kid grows up to do the same with butter knives, slicing through mail and plate armor like toothpicks through cheese.
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Let's face it, Askeladd and his men had it coming and deserved to die, and Thors knew full well what they'd do if he failed. I can understand not killing people if it can be avoided, but he endangered his crew by only lightly injuring Askeladd's men. No amount of heavy character development will matter if what you become is essentially the punch line to a joke.įirst of all, going back to S1, Thors is a charlatan pretending to be virtuous with his dumb dumb philosophy hour ideology that led to everything happening in the first place. If S1 could vaguely be seen as a coming of age story, then I'd suggest S2 is an uncoming of age, as Thorfinn doubles down on masochistic idealism like only a shonen main can ("ahem. He makes a friend, learns new life skills, and goes from a low-key PTSD nihilist to an extreme idealist and messiah superhero and a real go-getter philosocan't in a way that allows him to engage in so much mental gymnastics that he twists his ass into a pretzel. Thorfinn was a more superficial character in S1, and he has a lot of room for growth here.
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Unfortunately, much of the proceedings resemble the most boring farming simulator out there, broken up by segments featuring some hyucking punks with names like "Badger," "Possum," and "Hippo." Frankly, I think S2 has more scenarios that showcase writing than being better written as a whole, and while Thorfinn's character arc is paced far more appropriately than Canute's insanely abrupt one in S1, at least what Canute became wasn't so silly and made perfect sense within the world they inhabited. There are at least more opportunities to focus on writing and character development alongside themes and competing ideologies because the action takes a backseat. Is the writing for Farmville arc better than S1 overall? I suppose so. here would be "Go watch ur Sword Art Online"? Not sure.
If not liking a famous foreign art film gets you a response of "Go watch ur Michael Bay," then maybe the response There is a certain level of pretension that comes with the perception of S2 versus S1 that reminds me of the debates concerning commercial Hollywood films and foreign art films, with S1 being more so the former because it has a lot of action and excessive amounts of violence, as opposed to the latter, which is sloooooow, not just because of MAPPA corner cutting a bit but also due to the source material of this arc focusing on characters, moral dilemmas, and ideology.
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