My sentiments exactly.
Also I wonder if the show will pull the "you are a bad person for wanting the show to continue with more brutal murders" card.
Which'll be hilarious because that's what all the newcomers actually wanted. The
fans didn't want that.
Boring episode, but it's still frustrating because they took this beautiful friendship and have now turned it into a manipulative toxic relationship just because Satoko was upset she had to study to stay in school and Rika was making new friends.
Satoko's going to whine about this should it happen. Stupid bitch.
Rika is absolutely right, and yet Satoko says she's being selfish. Remember, Satoko
agreed to study alongside Rika and follow her to the school of her choice. She had the
right to say "no". She had the right to air out her grievances and talk to Rika about it. But she
didn't. She chose to blindly follow Rika because of her own insecurities, and had to suffer the consequences for it.
"But it's not my fault. It's
Rika's fault for wanting to leave Hinamizawa."
Stupid bitch. This isn't the Satoko I know and love. Even if it's the
pre-Massacre Satoko who hadn't yet opened up her feelings to Rika and asked her help as I've seen some folks make the argument over, Rika
should've recognized this in her 100-year-old wisdom, and asked Satoko about her
true feelings. Satoko should've just stood up for herself and made her own decisions if she truly had an issue with this.
"But it's not my fault."
"How do you do, fellow kids?" Teppei makes me uncomfortable and the animators can't layer their shit properly. Satoko's hands are supposed to be
behind the pieces, holy shit.
Embarrassed Teppei is disgustingly uncanny, I hate this.
Worth noting for this screencap that they did a smash close-up cut to her face when she dropped the "bomb" she was bullied--"ijime". So dramatic, yo.
Here's the thing: Satoko's not wrong. She's
technically a pariah in the village. But as Featherine said:
Which sums up the entire Internet, if you ask me.
Satoko, after having witnessed
all of the fragments Rika had to go through in her attempt to escape the loop and live a happy life with her friends, is becoming no worse than the people of the village who shunned her for her parents' transgression.
This is Satoko's moral event horizon. This is
before she guts open Rika, by the way. She cannot come back from this, and she has no one to blame but herself. Except she
can't blame others.
"It's not
my fault."
I seriously do not blame the committee member who leaked this arc to the Chinese and let them loose. It's probably
much worse story-wise in the up-coming episodes to get the full story behind those screenshots, but I bet it started with this, with Satoko playing the victim (which
isn't an incorrect fact) which would lead to the deaths of her friends and fellow villagers all because she didn't take Rika's hand when she had extended it to join her in the tea club, and to help her study.
Stupid cunt.