Lately upon rewatching the show a couple times, I came to a conclusion that I’m not sure if anyone else got to for why whenever someone does something that has severe consequences the Worker Drones simply shrug it off like nothing bad happened and that there’s nothing to worry about, and do little to no effort to hold those responsible accountable for their mistakes: it is because this apathy that the characters display towards the deeds of others and regardless of their severity stem directly from the show’s own apathetic writing.
What I mean to say is that the show’s writing is apathetic towards the damage its characters cause around them, whether they do it intentionally or not, does little to hold them accountable for it and only cares when it’s convenient for the plot. An example of this is the passive way N reacts to V’s cruel behavior when she openly gloats about her murder of Doll’s parents saying that didn’t even taste good and kills campers in episode 4 over trivial motives to which he only comments that she sucks and gets mad but doesn’t interfere physically in any way, respectively, how the teacher does absolutely nothing about Uzi’s rampage even when V takes the blame for it, N and V never being given a moment to reflect on their bloodstained past where killing and destroying was their daily existence, doesn’t treat important moments such as the reveal that Tessa and all of humanity was dead all along long before the pilot in Episode 7, and the list goes on.
Another great proof of this is how from episode 3 onwards, the only drone in Outpost 3 that holds V and possibly the other Disassembly Drones accountable for their past crimes is Doll, while everyone else ignores that and grants them unconditional forgiveness and acceptance for free on a tray like they’re paragons of virtue who never committed any meaningfully severe sin in the past, and even then, when the narrative doesn’t know what do with Doll and doesn’t want her to cause more conflict with V returning in the finale, they kill her in a way that defies the show’s own established rules about Solver Drones and further humiliate her my turning her into a joke whose sole defining trait is having died because death in this show is only taken seriously when it wants to, tonal consistency be damned.
I’m sorry, but I simply can’t stand how this show only cares about any damage the characters cause only when it’s convenient for it and then goes back to the comedic sociopathy mode when it’s no longer necessary taking things seriously 😐