Ragnarok really went from "Climate change and greedy corporations are forces of chaos that are destroying the world" to "neurodivergent climate activists are just immature and delusional actually, you all need to grow up and integrate."
"Also everybody loses people they love and no corporation has been personally responsible for that, ever."
Even if Magne really did have paranoid schizophrenia (which would have been cool as hell because I can't remember the last time I saw the hero of a story have schizophrenia, try never) writing literally everything that happened off as three seasons of psychosis is clumsy, patronizing, bad writing, and feels an awful lot like gaslighting. Sometimes I get the sense that writers don't think that much of their audiences. *eyes Sherlock and Loki writers*
I mean, even other aspects of the ending don't make sense. Like Signy's supposed to be the great love of Magne's life that drives him to mature or cures his mental illness or whatever but we get the bare minimum of the two of them interacting. If the entire resolution of the story hinges on a love story, then write me a damn love story. I mean, we basically just got introductions, oh, they're sleeping in the same bed now, never mind they're fighting now :( Nothing of substance. The same with Magne and Isolde's friendship. I get that she's supposed to have been his "only friend" or whatever (weird because he ends up with a whole table full of them at the end so apparently his psychosis made him come out of his shell, not the other way around) but even there he and Isolde only interact for half an episode at best for that kind of a trauma response. Maybe it's the combined trauma of his dad's death then Isolde's accident, but if that's the case, some flashbacks of Magne interacting with his dad could have really helped put the audience in his shoes. I truly don't know what they were thinking.
On a more positive note, really happy with episodes 1 - 5. Little O being set free, Laurits living his best life in his best look with his dream guy, confident Magne that learns to open himself up to others, Ran's silly little therapy sessions...if only they had left it at that.
