Monster Episode 10 Reaction
Added 2025-07-06 22:08:02 +0000 UTC
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El Psy Congroo
2025-07-07 18:56:44 +0000 UTCIt makes me so happy seeing you enjoy the show this much! It's only going to get better and better. Loved the discussion, especially about Johan's character. I've been waiting for your reaction & discussion to episode 11 and now we are so close!
Priscilla
2025-07-07 11:46:49 +0000 UTCToday a longer comment. First of all, I want to praise Urasawa for choosing post‑Wall Germany as the main setting for his story. It is remarkable how many subtle details he weaves in, cultural nuances, historical events and social moods that are little known outside Germany and often only understood by those who study the country’s history and people more closely. After World War II, Germany was divided into two states: the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD or FRG) in the West and the German Democratic Republic (DDR or GDR) in the East. Over the roughly forty years that this division lasted, from 1949 to 1990, with the Berlin Wall standing from 1961 to 1989, two very different societies evolved. In the West, a market economy shaped by American-style capitalism prevailed, emphasizing profit, individual choice and economic freedom within a social welfare framework. In the East, by contrast, a socialist planned economy under the SED party promoted a collective ideal: work was meant to serve the community and the state, not personal gain. Regular state‑organized festivals, guaranteed basic services and a strong sense of social security created real solidarity among many East Germans, even as the regime brutally repressed critics and prevented free movement across its borders. By the late 1980s, however, the GDR’s economy was collapsing and popular discontent was spreading. Mass protests throughout 1989 finally forced the government to open the Wall on November 9, and reunification followed less than a year later. Though legally the GDR “joined” the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law, in practice East Germany was largely absorbed into West Germany’s political and economic system. Many East Germans experienced this as an annexation rather than a true merging of two equal partners. At the time, the Federal Republic was governed by conservative parties under Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Their approach to reunification was shaped by a firm belief in the superiority of the West German capitalist model. Rather than seeking a synthesis between East and West, they aimed for a swift transformation of the GDR into a market economy. This meant rapid privatization, deregulation, and the dismantling of socialist structures, often with little regard for the lived realities and social institutions of the East. As a result, many East German institutions, practices, and values were not preserved or integrated, but simply overwritten by West German norms and systems. The promised benefits of reunification often failed to materialize in the East. Many professional qualifications from the GDR were not automatically recognized, forcing skilled workers to retrain or to accept unemployment, sometimes forever, or had to change to a much lower field of work, such as truck drivers or cleaning stuff who were formerly skilled metal workers. The Treuhand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treuhandanstalt), the agency charged with privatizing East German state‑owned enterprises, frequently sold them to Western investors who dismantled factories and laid off workers instead of modernizing them, driving unemployment in some regions above 30 percent. Even in cases where modernization did take place, it was often accompanied by a replacement of local staff with West Germans, especially in management and leadership positions. This contributed to a lasting imbalance. To this day, a disproportionately high number of company executives and decision-makers in former East Germany come from the West. Meanwhile, other investors from the West sometimes duped East Germans into speculative schemes, costing them their life savings and even their homes. A pervasive tone of Western superiority, portraying East Germans as backward or in need of instruction, deepened feelings of alienation and betrayal. These wounds have not fully healed. Economic hardship, social dislocation and the sense of being treated as second‑class citizens helped fuel support for extremist and protest parties in the East. The arrival of refugees after 2015 further aggravated resentments in some communities, where many felt that only foreigners received the solidarity and assistance the GDR citizens themselves had long been denied. Racism in the previously homogeneous population of the GDR also plays a role of course. At the same time, aspects of the GDR’s social system, comprehensive childcare, a strong school system and high female labor participation in full‑time work, have often been overlooked. Today, Germany grapples with gaps in early childhood education, school performance and gender equality in employment, areas where the old East German model was in some respects more effective. A more balanced approach to reunification, one that truly combined the strengths of both systems, might have produced a fairer and more cohesive Germany.
Robert H.
2025-07-07 07:57:43 +0000 UTCIt's impressive how this show just keeps getting crazier every few episodes. It's such mind blowing TV show. Like wtf
t.wizzle
2025-07-07 06:42:36 +0000 UTCAgree, same
Trumpet Sounds
2025-07-07 04:46:45 +0000 UTCLove the discussion on Johan, these first few eps, they really just give you crumbs to inform your understanding of him
Maria Silva
2025-07-07 03:25:06 +0000 UTCYeah, based on the discussions you guys have, I'm sure you'll both love this show and there's a good chance that Monster will become one of your favorite works of fiction by the end of it.
Floweyyyy
2025-07-07 02:30:32 +0000 UTCLoved the post episode discussion. I am still hoping you girls could not stop after watching E11's cliffhanger and ended up watching E12 before you took a break.
Aglio Olio
2025-07-07 01:08:00 +0000 UTCAhhh that intro is making me thirsty… I wish I could get drunk but I have to work tomorrow lol another great episode. Tenma’s conviction getting tested this time around was an interesting way to display how is he developing as a character in the short space of 10 episodes. Now.. why would you girls stop watching after one more episode.. screw the schedule and just watch 10 more episodes in a row lol jk jk I know you girls have to pre-film other shows as well.. but those cliffhangers are gonna be so painful in the future.
Jack SV
2025-07-06 23:14:52 +0000 UTCTotally forgot bout the johan triggered sui code this ep😬
fionan franklin
2025-07-06 23:10:52 +0000 UTChonestly i can't wait for the next 64 episodes
Bernardo
2025-07-06 23:00:48 +0000 UTC
