the series indeed goes off the deep end midway thorugh season 2 and starts wanking off democracy instead of criticing both as it had done so up to that point.
it also has to show autocracy as horrible through just not writing any good ideas for reinhard, which is plain lazy.
democrats witholding information on terrajews is also what caused the season 4 shit show to ensue and what led to the death of that bloke in season 3.
the series high notes were that all the main cast were male leads for first season and that the girls that were introduced were all tomboys.
the ship combat and the political manueavring is top notch too. the gore is on point as well, minus the few parts where the focus on it to show the horrors of war even though they've been showing worse gore as if it was nothing up to that point.
lets not forget the openning and ending songs all being composed by the director and song by the same person each time so the mood, tone and words are as appropriate as it can get.
I never saw reinhard as someone who wants absolute autocracy to be his legacy. just that he wanted to make the world a fairer place so people like his sister have a lower chance of tragedy.
yang always said that autocrats will degrade in standards and the system goes to shit, and democracy is there so people can "vote" force that shit out of the system when it happens, and full on democracy only happens when no one can be trusted anymore and is a emergency answer that cant last forever as it will buckle under its own weight.
he could have gone to reinhard, a so called good autocrat, and tried making a system together that is on the sweet spot between autocracy and democracy, but noooo the author had to wank one side and shit on the other after season 2.
honestly fuck that shit civilization. Im glad they all died. yes there I said it.