Well, you missed out on a lot. Stories should provoke flexible thinking and perspective shifts in an entertaining way, they should not make you unhappy. If yo

Well, you missed out on a lot. Stories should provoke flexible thinking and perspective shifts in an entertaining way, they should not make you unhappy. If you get hung up on surface level things like that assuming the worst, you close your eyes to higher levels of perspective and thinking. The series is largely about a single theme which is primarily about nature vs. man, and man's hubris and fallibility.