Incredible. Okay. Melendrops asks, your story tackles a lot of systemic oppression and ways that flawed institutions impact minorities. Did you consider tackling racism in the silt verses? If so, how did you implement that? If not, what stopped you?

I think it's really nice to get a question that makes you stop and go, wait, why did we do it

that way?

And even to an extent come up short.

So I think it would be very fair to levy the charge of the Silk First is that we are trying

to hold up this horrific, absurd, fun house mirror to our current reality.

But there are a couple of topics that we

probably shy away from, one of which is race, because the show is talking a great deal about

the othering that goes on to justify the invisible cost of capitalism, about how we view

certain people as expendable, acceptable victims to enable our own comfort.

And in real life, a huge part of that is actually about race and racism.

Whereas the show doesn't really touch on that.

It mostly deals with class if it deals with these topics at all.

Race only really gets a hint to the mention right at the end where it's about nationality,

essentially, where it's strongly indicated that typically in this setting at the end of a war,

you get a huge tranche of your defeated opponents, citizens being delivered as sacrifices,

so you no longer have to offer up your

own population. This is a setting that has genocide built into its bones. So why not include it

more explicitly? I think organically, when we began telling the story and casting for the story,

we were just imagining the peninsula

as our key setting as this very generic Western country. And then midway through that

season, introducing a second nation, the Lengistrates, but the joke being that actually

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