Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181215021300/@comment-4010415-20181225045850

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote:

@SYUTK Tbf I don't think Caroline's nationalism is supposed to be funny. I think she's supposed to be seen as a ridiculous, annoying bitch. It's kind of common in media, which is especially funny coming from the US, the country full of "America, fuck yeah!!!" people who think the US is the best, most heroic country in the world. It's common because if they didn't make Murica's Muricaness look heroic they wouldn't get as many yearly recruits as they want. Doesn't make it any less obnoxious to anyone who isn't indoctrinated to swallow it though.

On a side note, regarding Cordovin's "Friends of questionable character" comment when she looked at Blake.......I admit I forgot it even happened until Lightning-in-my-Hand pointed it out, but, she was likely talking about Yang instead of Blake. I meant its common in the sense of American media making characters who are overly nationalistic with the actual intention of those characters being seen as unlikeable by the audience. That's why I find it funny because we have so many people here who are like that, but when they see that in a character, they don't see themselves, but rather an icky nationalist.

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Blake's reaction says the writers intended for Caroline to be looking at and referring to her, not Yang. Yang's reaction paired with Blake's seems to say that Yang is offended that Caroline would refer to her friend that way.

I really don't believe that Yang would get all indignant and glare at someone for judging her for what she did to Mercury. To me, she knows that what she did was bad and looked bad, regardless of the fact that she was tricked. She knows that everyone else saw her shoot someone without Aura just for standing near her, so I don't think she would act all shocked and offended from someone bringing that up.