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- A reactionary note to self. Written for research purposes.
About Dr. Alexei's fate.
"You can do it Mister!" cheered by children, he gets to experience the innocence, the essence of the fun, of the true American spirit. Only to be punished by his own countryman, a Terminator type.
This season had a lot of complex socio-political dynamics overall and kept pushing my PC buttons more than usual. I kept asking myself, "would I want my kids to watch this, these messages, are they reinforcing unhealthy narratives of the American identity in relation to others?"
Amidst the thread of a nothing-new Russian enemy narrative, this sequence of Dr. Alexei's fun at the festival stood out for me.