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osomatsu-san: the end of season 1 versus the end of season 2

A recount of the events of the end of season 1: Choromatsu gets a job and is the first to move out. Everyone else is happy except Osomatsu, and it results in a family falling out where everyone leaves except Osomatsu. A letter arrives inviting them to a tournament. Chaos, calamity, and comedy ensue and everyone is brought back to square one.

A recount of the events of the end of season 2: 

Matsuzou suddenly falls ill, and must stay in the hospital for days, upon weeks. well the main breadwinner is in the hospital, the adult children get jobs and do chores around the house. Just when it seems like they've all gotten their lives together, a sudden plane crash not only destroys half of the house, but also kills all six of the offspring. as far as I can remember, this happens while Matsuzou is still in the hospital.

They go into the Afterlife, and fight for a little bit, see all of the other characters throughout the series, and escaped back into the living world, back into their bodies that have started to deteriorate. So, they're zombies, now. They're also hit by a plane and they're all in one piece.

My thoughts:

The end of season 2 is why I'm not interested in seeing the movie.

Who was the Target demographic for the end of season 2?

the end of season one made perfect sense. Everyone going off their own way and living their own lives, halfway addressing a mental health issue, and people doing what they have to do while not being totally happy about it. Not only is it realistic, but it's also not overly dramatic. That was just "real life sometimes". 

My biggest point is that it wasn't a try hard ending. it was a realistic perspective that a lot of people can relate to and understand. sometimes people just have falling out and moving on didn't start off and the positive way that everyone wanted to and that's just life sometimes. They chose to tackle a real heartbreaking topic, and I think they did it well enough. a part of doing it well was making it not come out of the blue. They build up on showing that Osomatsu had issues, and the events finally came to a head when somebody finally got a job and moved out.

The end of season 2 was the tragic try-hard. The breadwinner of the house falling ill, and the six adult children finally starting to pick up the slack, showing that they already knew right from wrong, they just weren't doing it. That pissed me off even more. if there was a build-up for that, I missed it. I feel like they spent a lot of season to being incels, but I see the forthcoming argument of them being stranded on a desert island being considered something of A build-up to the final events. Maybe they did get a crash course in four on socialist survival, but when they went back home I didn't see any changes.

Matsuzou was still in the hospital when this happened, as far as I can remember. But even if that's not the case, and Matsuzou had just returned from the hospital, how can someone who was already in poor condition not be phased by losing half of the house and all six of their children? Of course they hinted at a little bit of sadness, but that's bullshit. They address so many serious topics all at once and then threw them all away for afterlife laughs. They really couldn't have done anything else?

And that whole afterlife bit was a complete teardown of the relationship that they had been building after they had all gotten jobs and moved on with their independent lives while still living together. They had finally become something resembling a functional household, just for it all to break down so they could sacrifice each other to get into heaven while the others go to hell. 

I get the final episode has nothing to do with the rest of the episodes, which is the one thing that they plucked from 1988. But why  pick the worst part of 1988 to reference? And why did it have to be death?

don't get me wrong, I'm a huge death advocate. But everything leading up to that was such horseshit. Waste of money, resources, and budget. and they were hit by a plane but all of their bodies were in one piece when they came back as zombies. There was so much that wasn't addressed that made no sense that was worse than the end of season 1. the end of season 1 didn't play the series themes for laughs. There was a clear separation between serious time and funny time. 

the end of season 2 mixed serious and funny and made it awkward and hardly laughable. it address very serious topics not only putting an older loved one in the hospital but the destruction of a valued item, being their house, and not only the loss of loved ones but the loss of their children. I can tell that the people that handle this issue have never experienced the pain of the loss of losing a child. and there's a difference in the pain that you feel in a loss of losing an offspring when they're young and the loss of losing an offspring after they become adults and you become old. the greater issue is that we like to act like a people losing their adult children is rare, but death comes at any time. but I feel like the studio treated it like it was a thing that doesn't happen, and there was no emotion to the other characters reactions behind it.

the issues they are dressed we're nowhere near fun issues, and had no character immersion in the situation. they were more immersed in the other character getting sick than the other 6 characters dying and the house being destroyed. and the new staff decided to play with injury and death a lot, which devalues the concepts when it's time for the audience to take them seriously. how are we supposed to feel bad for them when you already had them death and dying all over the place beforehand?

Season 2 was the tale of awful storytelling. I don't want to sit through a movie of that.

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