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EP. REVIEW: The Promised Neverland

I'm getting increasingly worried that the resolution will be something like "the orphanage is a simulation and we just wanted to test people to find good kid for <insert>" or something like that cause it's the only explanation that would justify how lax security is, but that would be incredibly unsatisfying.

Is there a point to the orphanage being in a specific era? Why would children even understand that an electronic camera is more advanced than mechanical device? Why would the children even understand what a camera is? Mom could just lie and say there scarecrow or w/e (hell they could just put the camera in scarecrow) it's not like the concept of camera is some sort of innate idea that all the children would naturally have. It's just really contrive, I can borderline understand not having camera all over the farm (assuming this is an operation that's supposed to turn a profit and so having camera all around the premise would be expensive), but not having camera on the main gate and the perimeter makes very little sense, if only just to prevent thief.

Maybe it's an ecological farm?

Maybe whatever they want them for has those sort of environments making that progress the most likely?

Maybe the demons has some sort of animal cruelty laws that requires a certain quality of life?

You can't lie because they want them to grow their intellect for some reason, and they would thus figure out how a camera works on their own, or more specifically that it doesn't fit with their overall understanding of the world's current technology/what they read in books, etc. It would raise suspicion and children flock to such gadgets and would smash it up for sure. The way the mains talk about the technology they don't understand (like the tracking chip) is that of observation. They don't know what it look like or if all they need to do is cut it out (which we can assume is more than enough, as we understand the current technology, but they don't).

It's also the case as what the fellow above said. Maybe they view the possibility to be so low that it doesn't matter, OR that once they get "out in the wild" they expect to be able to fetch them back. It's kind of like if your sheep escape, not like they're going to hurt anyone, at worst they'd perhaps get hit by a car if they cross a high speed road in a hurry.

Is it just me or should the reviewer not be dropping end of episode spoilers in their review? I mean I saw it and then read it but like a reviewer shouldn't just summarise the whole plot of an episode if they don't have to.

Is it just me or should the reviewer not be dropping end of episode spoilers in their review? I mean I saw it and then read it but like a reviewer shouldn't just summarise the whole plot of an episode if they don't have to.

^Well, it wasn't "pretty obvious" to me, the reveal that Ray might be the traitor really took my by surprise. Though if he truly was a traitor he'd have given Mama real information and not the fake one, so i'm guessing that he's got his reasons to help her but is still trying to protect the others...Norman may be cunning but it's obvious that he really cares about Ray, when Emma said that she wouldn't leave the traitor behind, you could see the relief on his face.

Also, ot telling the truth to Gilda and Don might have been the best way to get them to cooperate but will probably come back to bite them in the ass sooner or later...

he has to lie to Emma and ditch the other children when the time comes