judging only by how it looks ...

Sunday Soapbox 007

Insatiable

[ Netflix ]

Ah, I'm so mad!

Well, not that mad since I know this is a really sensitive issue especially considering what it touches upon among the youth. If you've watch the video and the trailer, you can get the gist of the storyline of the upcoming Netflix series revolving around a fat kid that is being bullied at school is forced to be skinny due to an accident and seeing how she is being treated differently now just because she lost all the fat, she decides to play into their expectations and then stab their backs to exact revenge. That's the gist of it, right? Okay ...

Based on the trailer alone, I can see where the criticisms are coming from since you only learn of the premise and highlights of her lashing out onto others but nothing on her character progression, which is understandable since the trailer is doing its job to bring your attention to the show and they had to show these things to do so. They can't show every plot twist and her journey in the trailer, then you don't have to watch it since you watch it all already! You can get mad on the notion of providing the youths an example of negative body image perspective but you should know better to judge a book by its cover. If you haven't watch the whole thing first, how can you judge it based only on the trailer? How do you know that it will all be about how being fat is terrible while being skinny is great? Yes, that's what the trailer is focusing on but there's certainly more than meet the eyes.

Regarding the showrunner's intention of trying to make it a xyz on the current constants struggle of teenagers being picked on based on their looks, I'm just hoping that people would not just join in this outrage culture without giving the show its proper due to see whether they succeed on not on making a smart commentary on it. It is a bit farfetched as a possible real life situation but they are using it as a vehicle for an individual that has been tortured constantly to turn the tide onto the bullies with an effective weapon at her disposal that isn't there before: her looks. It is meant to highlight that in a pursuit for vengeance, she would justify all of her over-the-top actions against them to satiate her boiling thirst for blood figuratively (and literally?!), overshadowing her common sense since it is an act in the heat of the moment, her being given a weapon at her most vulnerable emotional state to retaliate without any intrinsic healing or acceptance of her fate which could only turn this way. Or at least that's what I hope so as the main lesson of the series at the end. You'll never know until you watch it yourself, so don't put a chicken before the egg ... is that how it goes?

Fooh ... I feel better already!
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a case for judging a book by its cover:

+ Positives +

nothing ... you are just being outrage just for the sake of it without any proper knowledge of it!
? Main contention ?

the final product dictates whether the backlash is warranted or not ...

- Negatives -

... yet still I want to emphasize this is a wrong action to take every time a topic is being brought to light.

? Trait ?

- judging something just by how it looks ... kinda appropriate for the subject at hand, huh? -

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