Why I get annoyed when InuYasha is on tv
Jul. 17th, 2005 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockJust watched last night's new Inu Yasha episode. I had missed the previous two, but that's okay.
Every time I watch this show and Kikyo shows up I get frustrated. I want to scream at all the characters: "WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SAVE HER, SHE IS EVIL!! SHE EATS SOULS!"
And then I wonder if there's some mysterious reason for liking her that developed in one of the episodes I missed somewhere along the line. I get why IY still likes her and I understand that Kagome is way, way too generous when it comes to letting IY be happy. But why don't Miroku and Sango have more of a problem with Kikyo? SHE EATS SOULS!
Seriously, did that change when I wasn't looking?
This is a problem I've had with the IY plot ever since Kikyo's character was introduced. At first they were like "Oh poor IY, your ex is evil, sucks to be you, dude. We'll have to go find her and stop her before she eats more innocent people's souls."
And then they like...forgot.
And every time they meet up it's all about Inuyasha and Kikyo's lingering romantic history and not about the fact that SHE EATS SOULS!
If I were a young woman in IY's time period, and I knew there was a demoness out there consuming souls of the recently expired, I'd be less inclined to sympathize with Inu Yasha's romantic angst and more worried about the fact that my soul was going to be eaten by a demon. As defenders of the innocent and general do-gooders, IY's gang seems to be failing on that point.
If anyone has a nice and clean explanation for this, please tell me. I would love to know.
Every time I watch this show and Kikyo shows up I get frustrated. I want to scream at all the characters: "WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SAVE HER, SHE IS EVIL!! SHE EATS SOULS!"
And then I wonder if there's some mysterious reason for liking her that developed in one of the episodes I missed somewhere along the line. I get why IY still likes her and I understand that Kagome is way, way too generous when it comes to letting IY be happy. But why don't Miroku and Sango have more of a problem with Kikyo? SHE EATS SOULS!
Seriously, did that change when I wasn't looking?
This is a problem I've had with the IY plot ever since Kikyo's character was introduced. At first they were like "Oh poor IY, your ex is evil, sucks to be you, dude. We'll have to go find her and stop her before she eats more innocent people's souls."
And then they like...forgot.
And every time they meet up it's all about Inuyasha and Kikyo's lingering romantic history and not about the fact that SHE EATS SOULS!
If I were a young woman in IY's time period, and I knew there was a demoness out there consuming souls of the recently expired, I'd be less inclined to sympathize with Inu Yasha's romantic angst and more worried about the fact that my soul was going to be eaten by a demon. As defenders of the innocent and general do-gooders, IY's gang seems to be failing on that point.
If anyone has a nice and clean explanation for this, please tell me. I would love to know.
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Date: 2005-07-17 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-17 11:09 pm (UTC)But I've gotten over that because we know Koga stopped eating villagers after he met Kagome. He's pretty much stopped killing humans entirely-- though I'm sure if one tried to attack him he'd kill the guy.
Did Kikyo stop eating souls?
Seriously. Beyond my ranting I'm really, really frustrated and curious to know why they're all just ignoring the fact that she's still totally evil. Maybe she likes kids and maybe she's not plotting world domination, but soul-eating is pretty damn evil. And she also doesn't seem to have a problem taking out any random monk that sees her and tries to send her back to the underworld, if I recall.
Why are Miroku and Sango ignoring it, more to the point? And if it's just because they're not strong enough to kill/pacify her, then why haven't we seen some demonstration of angst/worry/guilt to that effect? Miroku and Sango have devoted their entire lives to hunting and destroying evil. If this Kikyo subplot made any kind of decent story-telling sense and was actually well-written they'd at the minimum have expressed frustration at their inability to stop Kikyo. The fact that they're just okay with it boggles my mind and makes me very irritated.
It's stuff like this that keeps me from ever liking IY as much as I like Ranma. I want to, because there's so many lovable things... but there's also these things that just send me up the wall and make me want to turn it off. My suspension of disbelief can only suspend so much.
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Date: 2005-07-18 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-18 07:29 am (UTC)I think you just summarized my feelings on the show perfectly. I adored the manga when it first started, then stopped to watch the anime after that started... then just stopped watching after around episode 80. I've caught episodes on or off since then, but I don't feel compelled. I do still actively enjoy reading fanfic though.