Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35199716-20190730132006/@comment-4010415-20190814153609

Glitchee123z wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote: They really should've let the first two episodes be free. I could've just left the series alone if I had only gotten to watch the first episode, but since I was actually able to continue watching, I got pretty into it. Better yet, they should let all the episodes be available to FIRST then eventually be free. Like wtf!? It kinda makes sense, as it had a far higher budget than the likes of RWBY, Red vs Blue, or Nomad of Nowhere, so they felt the need to earn back a good amount of the money spent on it, even if part of the budget came from a third party.

VerBeeker wrote:

Yaz and Chase is good business, there, there's an "unpopular" opinion." Ship ship ship ship!

I also ship Val(entina) and Kazu.

Unpopular opinion, I think they handled the Val reveal as well as they could have. A lot of people felt that, just because the characters came right out and said it and explained, it was clunky and really badly handled, but I disagree. Genderfluid is far less known and understood than simple transgender, so I feel it warranted some explanation. Were Val simply trans, they really could've left it at him saying that using a male VR avatar is "not roleplay", which would have clearly conveyed to us that he's trans, since being male in VR is not a role he's playing, but simply who he is. However, they needed to convey to us that he's not always male. It also appears to set up a small inner conflict for Kazu, who seems to have an interest in Valentina but is uncertain about Val.

There is also the fact that they actually foreshadowed Val(entina)'s identity, although I feel that is the part they could've handled better. Recall the scene earlier in the season where Kazu referred to her as "Val" and Cammie corrected him with "Valentina". I feel they should've had Kazu say another word after "Val" so it would be clearer that Cammie was telling him not to call her Val. The way it played out sounded to me like Cammie interrupted him before he could finish saying "Valentina", and I thought she was correcting his pronunciation.