Yeah, I've seen a few videos on the topic, too. Well, listen to, at least.
There is a very long and fascinating path that led us here. I don't think I know of any other franchise that's gone through as many phases and has picked up quite as many different (and pardon the homophone) faces as DMC has. I will definitely talk about that later but for now I'll stick to the show.
God, the number of issues are so numerous that it would take more words than what the show has in both seasons on word count. The way the show runner pitched this was as being a fateful adaptation, respecting the source material and its themes, but what we got was so antithetical to the actual franchise it had to be on purpose. You don't get to make the 'different take' argument when the promise was a 'faithful adaptation.' Yeah, he knows the events because he got to see what Capcom never released but he didn't present that because if we changed the character names and designs while leaving everything else the same no one would recognize this as DMC. This, what we were presented with, is the same thing as what this showrunner did in his other work, so many parallels, and it was not good.
Shankar mentioned on interviews that he's very good at dissecting and deconstructing things to their most based elements and presenting that but it seems rather evident that he's confusing that for simply reversing them to an antithetical state, to a puerile parody. The way he treats Sparda alone is a perfect example of this; let's say that the whole Sparda was incapable of love and left because he didn't actually care about anyone, just for the sake of argument, though I'm not going to bet on that happening, was just a lie Mundus told, everything regarding him, from Mary's description of the Sparda legend to way he was constantly diminished as a father, as a benevolent figure in the world, and how they stepped on him to raise Eva, that's not deconstruction, just destruction. And I could make very similar arguments about all the characters and the themes of the franchise. Well, except the villains.
Honestly, I'd like to break it down on an episode by episode basis but I'll working a lot and that's going to take rewatching the show and that's not a tempting proposition, even though the temptation is there if only for the therapeutic value of it.
Also, am I crazy or is Maddy just a raced swapped Patty? There a few similarities but I might just be overthinking it.
