elizabethmason•1d agoProlific Poster

The episode where everyone cried but I just felt bored

I was watching Violet Evergarden with a group online, and Episode 10 came up. Everyone in the chat was going on about how it was the most heartbreaking thing they ever saw. I was sitting in my room with my laptop, waiting for it to hit me, but it never did. The whole letter-reading scene felt too forced to me, like they were trying way too hard to make you sad. I ended up pausing it to go grab a snack because I just wasn't feeling it. When I came back, people were posting crying emojis and saying they needed a break. I just said I thought it was okay and got downvoted into the negatives. Has anyone else ever missed the emotional wave on a hyped up episode like that?

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the_wesley21h agoMost Upvoted

The irony of being the one robot who didn't cry during the robot feels episode is pretty heavy. I was sitting there during that letter scene thinking "okay here comes the waterworks" and ended up checking my phone for memes instead. My emotional range is basically a teaspoon at this point, so maybe I just need to accept that I'm emotionally unavailable even for animated melodrama.

wesley_jones17h ago

Oh man, I gotta gently push back on one thing - that episode wasn't technically animated melodrama, it was a live-action flashback sequence with minimal animation. Your mileage may vary on whether that distinction matters for the feels, but I had to point it out.

jasonallen20h ago

Same episode for me. I had seen the twist coming from the first scene where the mom sat down at the desk. The whole thing felt like a checklist of sad tropes. Sick parent, young kid, letters from beyond the grave. By the time the daughter was reading them as an adult I was already thinking about what I wanted for dinner. The show worked better for me on the action episodes, honestly. The emotional stuff just felt too formulaic.