Maria the Virgin #12 — A Mountain of Feeeeeelings

March 29th, 2015

  

Good god.

Impressions:

As surprisingly good as Yatterman’s last episode was, is as (unsurprisingly) awful this final episode was. It consisted entirely of talking heads prattling about how great Maria is/the things Maria did are. Oh wait, I mean humans being humans or whatever. Because that’s what this was really about, apparently. Michael even went on a goddamned astral tour of all the characters to hear them all sing her praises before they became a mountain of feeeeeeelings supporting her and closing off literally every single dangling thread, including Crazy Priest having another fit of madness and being angel blasted into salt. Great closure, guys! And so very well woven into the plot! I’m not sure why we’re taking the opinions of unrepetant mercenary rapists though. Must be an angel thing.

So a half-assed, non-confrontational ending for a half-assed, non-confrontational show. How appropriate. 

Final Thoughts:

I enjoyed the show the most when it actually showed some balls, mostly in the second episode when it briefly dallied with being a sexual comedy or showed things with actual consequences, heavenly edicts or war in particular. That was rare though. It was far more concerned with throwing out utterly sophomoric platitudes like “Some people profit from war” or “Soldiers weren’t trained to be farmers.” Didn’t bother actually developing or having any kind of debate over them or exploring them at all. Just threw them out, Maria got angsty over them for ten minutes, then decided that went right back to what she was doing before with nary a thought about any of them ever again. The absolute worst was the episode where they said “You don’t like killing, right? Well, if you just let us kill enough of them, no more killing!” A close second place goes to “If you had let them die, they wouldn’t have infrastructure problems.” The juvenile way they treated the heavenly edicts that were supposed to provide some limitations on her or consequences also prevented them from adding any weight to proceedings.

On top of this was a real problem with the characters, specifically that Maria was the one true goddess who could never do any wrong, and all characters were simply drawn to her beauteous ideals. Zeke and the witches were the main abusers in this regard, one becoming her unwavering cheerleader from nothing more than a story about how she didn’t give up that one time, and the others because… well, they forgot to actually provide any kind of reason. Probably peer pressure. Other ones had similar problems, like the incredibly bizarre episode where Drunky McRapey gave a supposedly inspirational speech about how he made the fantastic life choices of getting blackout drunk, sleeping with some guy’s fiancee, and then beating the hell out of him via essentially cheating in a duel.

The show’s not anywhere near as thought-provoking as it pretended to be, the entire cast exists for the sole purpose of exhorting Maria’s glory, and Maria is neither developed nor interesting on her own. It doesn’t bother to take any chances with characters or plot, resulting in a rather safe, bland, show. 

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Germanguy says:

    I am happy with the conclusion

    Maria was not a Dark Witch, she used not her Magic to Harm Peoples in first place. She used it to prevent War or killing around her. They accept her as a Guardian, not as an God. So thats why she was “allowed” to live in the neighborhood

    I think the ideas of our Monk,that turned into dust, was the first steps of Atheism

  • Sanjuro says:

    The boy owl never got his own penis.

  • Approve says:

    Nice to see not everyone is applauding the antics of this juvenile cheerleader with hax/hex. Totally agreed on the witches’ group, who completely out of the blue started risking their lives and fighting a losing battle for someone who only made them shake their heads in disbelief before. So basically Maria was right to force her will on people because she could but Michael was wrong to do the same to her… And to be honest, I’m always baffled when saving lives is made into the most hugely important thing in stories where afterlife is absolutely guaranteed.