Obsessed with how Infinity Train was a series designed to grow up each arc. Like:
Season One: tween/teen coming of age. 'Kid coming to realise their caregivers aren't perfect and infallible'
Season Two: Mid-teens identity crisis. This one is more about what you are, about not caving to the social pressures trying to make you conform.
Season Three: Now we're well into late teenagerhood, and the stakes are higher. You can fuck up, in big, terrible ways. Are you able to take a good long look at yourself and change course once you do?
Season Four: Young adulthood, and the question of what do I want my life to be. This is a season which truly has its two protagonists share the limelight equally, which I think is meant to represent how tied this life phase is to navigating interpersonal relationships and reconciling faults in them.
And then we know season five/the movie was supposed to follow Amelia, a (then still young) woman handling the loss of her spouse. An anti-hero who we know who had good intentions, but what happens when those good intentions aren't enough, when you coping mechanisms spiral out of control?
ugh. it's such a well constructed story, and i really hope we see it get a conclusion one day.
