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Finished watching Kipo, there's an obvious set-up for a third season there
This is very much *not* a show to watch because of the world-building, and yet, I still have some thoughts about the world-building, namely that it's so much bleaker than you'd think.
If pretty much everything non-human is mutated, and nearly all mutations come with vastly increased intelligence and sapience, then it's extremely hard to live without eating other thinking beings.
Wolf has the common decency to check for speech before killing things, which is great, but it's clearly an imperfect test - Mandou can't talk, but she's definitely the smartest person in that crew, understands English just fine, and only needs her companions to learn Morse or carry around a portable letterboard or something.
And nobody seems to innovate or build anything anymore, except the humans in the burrows, and them just barely. They all just repurpose scraps. It's kind of amazing that the situation isn't worse.
Thoughts on other things: You'd think that Kipo's burrow would have a lot more kids. Where are all the kids hidden?
Mandou running around with straws in her mouth to be a boar is the best. So is Mandou being the caring Old!Dave protector in Fun Gus' hive while the human children were busy being useless. So is Mandou's cheeseworld dream. So is her epic fight scene with the evil doctor. Mandou is just, in general, the best.
This no doubt ruins the moral of the story, and therefore will never be canon (and certainly shouldn't be, not if the writers know what they're doing), but Kipo's power of friendship is so very very strong that I wonder if she has a lighter version of Scarlamange's pheromones. Lighter in effect, but ultimately longer lasting because people don't *know* they're being affected.
Scarlamange is basically what Wolf would've become in a few more years, but with more charisma. If the evil doctor had picked her up instead of Kipo, depend on it, she would've been a monster.
Kipo's parents... oh boy. They clearly had a very solution-oriented mindset. Must come from living in a burrow of scientists, but the problem of "humans can't live on the surface with mutes" really can't be solved by turning humans into superpowered megamutes. The problem isn't that the surface is dangerous, or that humans are weak - the problem is that people don't like them. Science cannot fix this problem. And despite what Dr. Evil Doctor Lady thinks, reversing the universal mutation of everything but humans, if it's even possible, is not really a good solution either. Forget the ethical issues, the biosphere is totally wrecked, and it might not survive another wreckage. Better focus on space. Or, y'know - don't. Life in the burrows seems totally fine. Live in the burrows, leave the surface to the mutes.
(But then, how true IS it that humans can't live on the surface? We've seen multiple humans doing just that, and that's after Scarlemange started his reign of terror. And we've also only seen a teensy snippet of the surface. Maybe some people needed to spend more time in recon.)
If pretty much everything non-human is mutated, and nearly all mutations come with vastly increased intelligence and sapience, then it's extremely hard to live without eating other thinking beings.
Wolf has the common decency to check for speech before killing things, which is great, but it's clearly an imperfect test - Mandou can't talk, but she's definitely the smartest person in that crew, understands English just fine, and only needs her companions to learn Morse or carry around a portable letterboard or something.
And nobody seems to innovate or build anything anymore, except the humans in the burrows, and them just barely. They all just repurpose scraps. It's kind of amazing that the situation isn't worse.
Thoughts on other things: You'd think that Kipo's burrow would have a lot more kids. Where are all the kids hidden?
Mandou running around with straws in her mouth to be a boar is the best. So is Mandou being the caring Old!Dave protector in Fun Gus' hive while the human children were busy being useless. So is Mandou's cheeseworld dream. So is her epic fight scene with the evil doctor. Mandou is just, in general, the best.
This no doubt ruins the moral of the story, and therefore will never be canon (and certainly shouldn't be, not if the writers know what they're doing), but Kipo's power of friendship is so very very strong that I wonder if she has a lighter version of Scarlamange's pheromones. Lighter in effect, but ultimately longer lasting because people don't *know* they're being affected.
Scarlamange is basically what Wolf would've become in a few more years, but with more charisma. If the evil doctor had picked her up instead of Kipo, depend on it, she would've been a monster.
Kipo's parents... oh boy. They clearly had a very solution-oriented mindset. Must come from living in a burrow of scientists, but the problem of "humans can't live on the surface with mutes" really can't be solved by turning humans into superpowered megamutes. The problem isn't that the surface is dangerous, or that humans are weak - the problem is that people don't like them. Science cannot fix this problem. And despite what Dr. Evil Doctor Lady thinks, reversing the universal mutation of everything but humans, if it's even possible, is not really a good solution either. Forget the ethical issues, the biosphere is totally wrecked, and it might not survive another wreckage. Better focus on space. Or, y'know - don't. Life in the burrows seems totally fine. Live in the burrows, leave the surface to the mutes.
(But then, how true IS it that humans can't live on the surface? We've seen multiple humans doing just that, and that's after Scarlemange started his reign of terror. And we've also only seen a teensy snippet of the surface. Maybe some people needed to spend more time in recon.)
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Amy also shows up in Doctor Strange, Beatriz at Dinner, and in one episode of Handmaid's Tale.
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