that tacked on tonal shift (and the others in ep. 3) may have been due to the script changes.
have a look at this:
because they took out the pandemic scenes.
in the original you would have a pandemic raging all around and the FS fighting to get vaccines for the people and fighting against the GRC. GRC wants vaccines (and resources) for rich people and rich countries. the FS'ers are fighting against that.
they removed that but tried to keep the script internally consistent.
in removing that they have removed much of the back-drop to the motivations of the FS'ers and the reason why they are gaining widespread support.
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saying all of that there are still problems with the script and some of the actors, but in the context of these late stage changes the issues are far less jarring.
fair enough
just saying that the entire flag smashing crew can't act for shyt