Darlings in the Franxx succeeded to disappoint. Two terrible episodes (the picture book flashback and the Werner flashback) revealed the great mystery. The solution to the mystery was that they put 0 effort into worldbuilding. We are given laziest possible answers to any question you might have about the world of Franxx. Not only are they boring and cliche but they make no sense either. Watching the previous episode I was a little disappointed to realize there was still one more episode to go. Hopefully they at least deliver on some spectacle for the finale.
Oh, wow, that's a bitter turnaround from previous. You know, I normally don't watch things until they're done, but after earlier comments I watched the first six episodes of Darling in the Franxx. So, I'm kind of curious -- let's play a game. With only the first six episodes to go on I'll make some predictions that seem lazy to me. The game is "how close did I get to the actual thing?" and "Did I manage to be lazier?" They'll build on one another it seems so I'll bold the
1)
This isn't Earth.2)
This isn't an alternate earth or paralell dimension or fantasy world either; humanity is spacefaring.3)
the "Magma energy" that the Plantations harvest is world Lifestream -- the humans are really invaders killing this planet for the sake of their empire.
4) The Klaxxosaurs look mechanical, so actually they are --
they're mechas piloted (at least for the most part, the really tiny ones could be drones) by the native life of this world to defend their planet against the invading humans.
5)
Like seriously all those cores that need to get speared are pilot pods.
6)
Zero Two is literally a human/native halfbreed. They are that human-like.
7)
Dr. Franxx is her dad. He's also a reasonable/good human who wanted peace when it was learned this planet had intelligent life but for some reason he's forced to be part of the military/industrial complex.
8)
The other adults are overcompensatingly evil and it's made clear they'd want to exterminate the natives even if there was no Magma energy at stake.
9)
The last arc will pit the main characters mostly against their High Command. To keep the world from getting killed. Maybe they need to let humanity know what's here that the military has been keeping secret, or maybe they'll totally defect like bloody Avatar, either way works.
10) Feels a bit sad at nine predictions so here's a bonus:
Ichigo neither gets over Hiro nor ever gets any closer to 'winning'.