Whenever people complain about their favorite intellectual property from their childhood becoming “woke” it’s usually because it simply went over their heads as kids.
Yes, episodes 4-6 work well that way, but I found the narrative of episodes 1-3 disappointing… the basic plot is that our ‘good and beneficent’ elites got swapped for baddies… but rule by elites often leads to fascism because the takeover is easier to effect. Ask yourself where the ‘ordinary people’ are in that dynastic struggle, either the ones fighting it or the ones cosplaying it in proto-Strong Boys get-ups? It’s not an anti-elite message for sure.

