• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    You’re completely ignoring the subtext of Milchick, a Black man who evidently gets disadvantaged at work due to his skin color, using his power as the floor manager to choose a marching band as the method of celebration for their achievement. It directly ties into his season-long arc.

    It’s fine not to know that such a subtext exists, I also didn’t know when I first saw the scene - but maybe try reading up instead of just assuming that there’s no sense to what you’re seeing?

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      17 days ago

      You’re completely ignoring the subtext of Milchick, a Black man who evidently gets disadvantaged at work due to his skin color, using his power as the floor manager to choose a marching band as the method of celebration for their achievement. It directly ties into his season-long arc.

      Just because it makes sense with one character’s arc, doesn’t meant it makes sense in the broader context of the show.

      There are lots of ways a writer could have written the conclusion to that character arc for Milchick that didn’t require suddenly establishing not just a full department, but the biggest department we’ve seen at the company by far, consisting entirely of marching band players that are apparently very practiced.