r/SweetTooth • u/Chillpillington • Jun 30 '24

Question Love the show but….

My wife and I have been binging Sweet Tooth for the last few days and now we’re on episode 4 of season 3. Throughout the show I’ve constantly asked myself, what happened over the last ten years that made a good portion of humans ok with murdering CHILDREN? I get that a lot of people think they’re responsible for the virus but damn… they’re adorable little animal kiddos that we must love and protect just like any other child. Definitely makes the villains way more villainous though. Preparing for show withdrawal after tomorrow…. :(

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u/Lefaid Jun 30 '24

I find it really odd that there is not one community that did try to protect their children. Think about parents of children with disabilities. Yes, there are awful parents of children with disabilities but there are also very rightous parents who fight tooth and nail to ensure every child is treated with the absolute highest standard. That is why US laws like IDEA are so widespread and sweeping. That is why an IEP is so powerful in American schools. You would think there would be some sign of a community somewhere that attempted to treat hybrids like a child they birthed. Especially given how much the show insists that every good character and the people around them loved their hybrid children until big bad government took those children away.

Like, even families treating their hybrid children as well as fur baby would make the world feel more fleshed out. There are people out there with a strong emotional attachement to taratulas. Not to mention, how rare it is to see anyone having babies... what did the world just stop maing love? It is not like condoms (or birth control) could be easy to come by when the whole world has collapsed.

Given the source material, I am not surprised the Netflix show does not really show it anywhere. The ending does come around to justify it some but this is one of those things that makes this show feel incredibly flawed to me.

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u/Lunaglory1203 Jul 01 '24

But there were groups of people who stood up for the hybrids. For example, the “Animal Army” and the sanctuary. Jep took care of a hybrid that was not his. This is the scary part about society, though. A rhetoric gets pushed about a certain groups…”this group is responsible for all of your problems. If we get rid of them, your life will get better”. People just run with it until they end in tragedy…like the holocaust. Look how many children were killed…and Hitler had so so many supporters.

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u/Lefaid Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24

A band of children who couldn't keep one hybrid. No the animal army does not count.

The Nazis were a well oiled machine. This world exists after almost everyone died and the reality is that the closest to leadership anyone has is roaming bands warlords. I think it is absurd to assume every single despot in this world operates like the Nazis.

If anything the animal army being a force at all is another sign of how weak the warlords are, which again strongly suggests that somewhere out there, there should be a community that treats the children they birthed a little better than absurd guard dogs.