Dragon Age: Absolution

[stares...] ...>sighs<... [stares longer, slumped in chair] ...>sighs heavier, fingers holding bridge of nose<....

You know, this social political...thing is NOT the way to go. The forced viewing of homosexuality is NOT interesting. Gay romance does NOT play well to the viewing audience if the viewing audience is NOT gay; which just so happens to be 98% of this country, America.

Review: Gay ex-slave elf-woman is asked for help by her gay ex-girlfriend human. Gay elf-woman and her gay-human male partner team up to help gay ex-girlfriend and her gay dwarf-man partner to steal mcguffin.

NOTE: [I am not being facetious nor malicious; this is the literal story.]

The theft they are hired to commit has the Gay elf-woman returning to the city in which she lived as a slave. The job also has her face her ex-owner whom she was raised with from childhood. He considers her family, though she never once returned the sentiment the entire series. The two, ofcourse, have to fight because the theft job went bad and the ex-owner just so happens to own the mcguffin. Her ex-girlfriend human was captured, and they end up having to rescue her. All this happens, even after the ex-owner saves Gay elf-woman's life because of the famial connection he (stupidly) harbors for the intolerant, self-absorbed, murdering, cowardly gay-elf woman.

So let's get the plot straight: They attempt to steal from the ex-owner for money. It goes bad. Gay-elf lady nearly looses her life. Gay ex-girlfriend human is captured. Ex-owner saves gay-elf lady thieving/murdering life out of (misplaced, IMO) sentiment. And now he's the bad guy because he wants to use magic -- he's good at --, to bring her brother -- whom gay elf lady killed -- back to life, so they all can rule the land. This will be his right, once he proves himself so magically inclined to his peers.

It's not that there are bad stories. It is that there are bad writers. And (I don't know...

This review is for season 1.

1. The writing is middling at best and subpar at worse.
2. The voice-acting is fine.
3. The animation is nice.
4. Qwydion is best buddy. She's so bubbly and adorable!

My conclusion: Meh.. but I'll return for season 2 to see Qwydion again.

I've seen better writing and storytelling in the form of The Dragon Prince (S01-S03, S04 was shite), and Arcane (which really set the bar for me for mature-audience animation), and similar or worse in the form of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Here the writers seem to conveniently forget they've written things in one bit, seesaw with character's intelligence in another bit, and lack consistency with character's actions in an extended bit. I also really didn't like the writing for the twist, I feel like it could've been done much better.

Below is the argumentative portion of the review where I take issue with the other "review" and explain plot points as plainly as I can in a totes short space of time because honestly, we have better things to do. I paused playing Ark and watching Castlevania (for the first time) to watch this in it's entirety because of that review.

BEWARE! Here there be SPOILERS!

• "Child-lock this show if you have children under 16 years of age in the house." This series is listed as TV-MA here and on IMDB and 16+ on Netflix. These official ratings mean that this series is meant for mature audiences, AKA adults. Which irresponsible parent allows their child to consume media made for adults? That's a rhetorical question and yes, this was a spoiler for someone!
• As a non-American, my take on population statistics as used like this is that they expect you to have zero empathy or compassion towards anyone who is on the receiving end. It makes sense that the review seems to completely miss the blatant xenophobia and slavery on full display in this series because to acknowledge it would require at least a shred of humanity. 2% of America's population...