I’m rewatching inuyasha and have no one to talk to about the fact that Kagura should have lived and by doing so the entire Sessh/Rin weirdness could have been completely avoided. Like I have trouble picturing Kagura pregnant but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen and half the time in fairy tales of all locales the kids pop out of the dad’s migraine or some shit and honestly they’d also make amazing godparents (or whatever the equivalent is) to a half dozen adopted mortals and their bloodlines. I’m mad about it and commenting on ao3 fics for this fandom is like screaming into the void.
You interpret it as a miss because you would require a direct civil war movie without any allowance to interpretation.
Yeah fuck me for enumerating which broad aspects would make an allegory function, plainly I just despise metaphor. What the hell, guy? I am, even now, trying to make this conversation about the topic you chose. Do I have resting bitch font or something? Do people read whatever I type in the shittiest way possible?
The first ninety percent of making your conflict like to the Civil War is having one side secede. That’s almost a necessary prior for any civil war. If it’s not occurring within one polity, it’s not… civil.
If the backstory of a show is that one big mean army stomped a ragtag band of people doin’ their own thing, there’s a lot of wars which are a close fit. America started several of them. The Civil War didn’t qualify. Not even in the imagination of the losers, as “the war of Northern aggression.” They invented some primo bullshit excuses for what they did, but even if you squint real hard, their telling does not resemble how things happened in this show.
You’ve ignored the author’s intent and are trying to pay word games around different names in the show to make your case without looking into deeper theming in the show.
You already namedropped “death of the author.” I know you understand the difference between intent and the content of a text.
The broad strokes of the backstory are central to the deeper theming in a show. They inform why characters do stuff. For a show to be about a specific and contentious conflict, it has to resemble that conflict more closely than, ‘we lost a war.’
For example: you could not bolster sympathy for a ragged band of sore losers if all the motifs point to World War II. If some protagonist-coded soldier’s individual experience of combat is loss and humiliation, but it turns out they worked for Space Hitler, the audience is not with you. You were the villains. Arguably - even that would be closer to the Civil War than the Alliance conquering plucky little outer-rim planets that never did anything wrong.
If you don’t have an original sin to insist the conflict isn’t about, that’s not the Lost Cause.