I'm rapidly approaching the end of this show and I have some thoughts.
(Apologies to any Kiva-likers searching this tag. I do not like your show and this post is entirely dunking on it.)
In Magic the Gathering, there is a concept called "powerful nothing". In which a player is doing a lot of things in the game (playing creatures, casting spells, activating abilities) and many of those things are incredibly strong effects on the game. But none of it is actually bringing that player any closer to victory. It's not affecting their win conditions, it's just fucking around on the board and not progressing the game.
This is what is happening in all of Kiva. There's a million things the show is doing, tons of character setup and plot hooks, lots of interesting concepts and cool moments and it's all ~a e s t h e t i c~ as fuck, but the show isn't doing anything with any of it.
The show just wants to push its shitty love triangles and artificial drama. None of it feels earned, and it all detracts from the actually interesting characters, ideas, and concepts that have been introduced.
The phrase I've been facetiously associating with the show for a long time now is "Mister Police, you could have saved her, I gave you all the clues." All of the pieces were in place and set up for this show to be amazing, and it just...ignored them.
I have 8 episodes left and I admit I'm actually fascinated to find out what other ways this show manages to drop the ball.
