BNHA. Gotta admit, I was kinda lukewarm about a "small progress/changes" ending, particularly since I came to BNHA from TG, which should've destroyed society and didn't. But Tartarus is the last straw for me. Gonna riot if Hero society, and Tartarus, don't get demolished in the endgame. I guess I'm just tired of seeing a deplorable fictional society that doesn't go with burning it down and rebuilding better.
I dearly hope you’re right and that the kids start to realize it sooner rather than later. Like, this is, to quote a friend, like saying “welcome to f*cking Guantanamo Bay” which is a pretty damn big switch from “heroes always try their best.” If Tartarus is the best heroes can do in regards to villains, then good grief, no wonder Ending would rather die than end up there again.
Again, it’s difficult because I don’t think fiction is a 1:1 parallel to reality, but it does reflect it, and... prisons in most countries really aren’t much better than Tartarus. I’d argue the Federal Supermax in the US is worse, in fact. Not to mention, of course, Gitmo.
I know people in general have a very “throw away the key” idea of prison as punishment, where it’s basically death but without guilt for anyone involved in “justice,” but punitive justice is almost always barking up the wrong tree because it doesn’t fix anything; it treats the symptoms but not the cause. It removes a tumor without addressing what’s wrong with the body to grow a tumor in the first place (not that people are cancer). I don’t even think bloody Overhaul deserves that, and I Do Not Like that guy.
Anyways, I doubt Shouto is going to be satisfied with his brother ending up in such a nightmare by the end of the series, and I like that Tartarus has been seemingly destroyed. I hope it’s destroyed beyond repair because I think they need to redo the entire prison system and reform justice in hero society, to have justice be defined as saving people and restoring them rather than throwing away the key.
