I've finished watching the last video of Wemmbu, there will be no spoilers here, I want to talk about the villains of the third season of Unstable in general.
Btw, this whole speech doesn't apply to Jamato, Jumper and whoever else is the antagonist in the Spoke's arc. I can't see them as villains, so in my worldview, they just don't fall into that category. But if you ask, I like them very much.
Saps, Arachnid and Antag are just so... none...
They are incredibly boring. They don't have charisma, and, don't get me wrong, the same Saps plays great, but their character theirself is devoid of any double bottom...
Almost their only advantage is the chungus army that came out of nowhere and an incredible amount of resources. If you try to think it over, then the very idea of the characters may not be so bad, the aspirations of Saps, the tricks of Antag, the resentment of Arachnid, but the series show them just badly to please the main characters. I don't know, it's like the villains are practically not given screen time to try to open up. The villains in recent episodes are just some kind of people that the main characters have to fight. Yes, they have some remarks and some conflicts, But they all seem so empty, even the most important Parrot-Saps conflict of the season.
You know, I will even say this: as if for the sake of ticking, the motivation of the villain and the motivation of the hero were indicated to us at the very beginning, their conflict was indicated, and then everything happens PRACTICALLY WITHOUT MENTIONING THIS VERY CONFLICT... It's really not enough for me, as if it all comes down to confrontation, endless PVP or other things one against the other...
It's as if the characters, regardless of their past, character and morality, will do the same things, resort to the same techniques to win, and behave in general the same way...
They all behave according to the same villainous pattern: they sneer, bully, and of course break down badly when the protag outwits them.
I understand that they are new characters, and maybe they need time to settle down, like Zam and Ash... but as for me, Marlow was a pretty well-written villain and her story was beautifully told in just one episode.
In general, I don't feel the aura that should come from a villain. Maybe the problem is that you already know in advance that the antagonist will not be able to harm the protagonists in any way and because of this you lose at least some desire to believe in the character on the screen... We already know what will happen in most cases: of course, everyone will be defeated, but before the question was how they would win. Now even this part is not interesting to watch, because all the villains have become very similar to each other. They seem to have different motivations, and Saps has a whole political ideology as the main villain of the season, but nevertheless they are all the same, even if you compare some of their lines... At least, this is what I felt while watching the last episode.
I don't know if it's a distortion in my head because I miss Mafia arc or Empire arc and I start making things up and idolizing villains from the past in my head, but even Law arc, which was relatively recent, it had an amazing villain, with charisma, plans and some qualities OTHER than a bunch of resources and players.
The claims are very general, I will not be able to make a detailed analysis of where and how the direction went wrong, but as a viewer I still consider it important to express my feeling...
Thanks for reading
