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that scene was written and animated and acted with more nuance than entire other scenes and episodes. if only we’d seen the best possible outcome– shiro’s dreams affirmed
agreed! I’ve said in previous posts that it was one of the most adult situations I’d seen on the show. It’s very clearly two people that can’t walk the same path anymore and one of them handles it badly by blaming the other person instead of accepting that they’re the one that can’t stay in the relationship any more because its not what they need any more.
That kind of shit happens in real life all the time and this was so startling true to that that I was caught off guard. (it doesn’t make the ultimatum right or healthy or anything I support - its simply that, yeah, that kind of thing happens to people in real life, especially ones that started dating young before what they wanted out of life and who they were going to grow up to be became apparent).
Shiro was absolutely, hands down, black and white clarity right in that situation.
Because you are never going to be happy if you give up what makes you who you are just to stay in a relationship with someone else. Shiro was right to let go and continue the dream he’d been following even though it hurt him to do so.
What the show - catered toward ‘young kids’ - SHOULD have shown was Shiro’s affirmation. Because ‘kids shows’ are supposed to teach lessons and an important one is certainly that you need to be who you are to be healthy and in healthy relationships. Kids, who are under such pressure to conform and give up what gives them joy and what their hearts long for, need to be shored up and taught to stay true to themselves (Cap says ‘no. you move’.) And, lets be real for a second, adults need to hear that too. So what VLD should have done with that very mature relationship issue was resolve it in a way that showed ‘who you are is vital to your health’.
Instead we got nothing. Confusing signals. And the EPs, one of whom is a woman who could not have avoided hearing at some point in her career that she should give up that career and ‘just get married’, saying that it was Shiro who was bad at relationships and wasn’t that funny, haha, that Mr Perfect can’t handle relationships and at least ‘now he knew what he’d lost’. Because I suppose the lesson they live by is that being in a romantic relationship is more important than chasing your dreams or being true to yourself no matter how miserable that makes you.
