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Every television serial is about trauma response.
This may sound like mental-health industrial-complex propaganda, but its true.
Its as true ofArrested Developmentas it is ofGame of Thrones.
Some shows avoid addressing this head-on.
Or, well, it was.
This vague reasoning is presumably a response to the showsprogressively darker story linesandthe increasing age of each seasons protagonists.
Media conglomerates like WarnerMedia only care about art as long as it is monetizable.
for exploring the many ways in which people do just that.
Once passengers numbers reach zero, an exit appears, and the train lets them off.
But when it comes to what makesInfinity Trainreally matter, the character work is the star of the show.
The central metaphor is really only there to give the characters space to learn.
And the lessons they have to learn get more complex by the season.
And the lessons they must help the train denizens around them process are even more traumatic than their own.
They got better as they became more willing to probe the unpleasant and unsettling aspects of human existence.
Its a good thing to tell kids the truth.
Dennis has said that the planned Book Five, or film, would have given Amelias backstory center stage.
Its easy to understand why Cartoon web connection, if not HBO Max, might balk at this.
And yetSteven Universeasked its young audience to identify with its protagonists grieving father and his late brides grieving lover.
Even way back in 1992, Warner Bros. Those series, undoubtedly, made WarnerMedia much more money.
But money shouldnt be the reason for a work of arts continued existence.
There are too many better reasons.
The completion of a story, for one; the broadening of an audiences horizons, for another.
Hide them from kids or not, those complexities arent going anywhere.
They are, in their own way, infinite.
