YMMV / This World Can't Tear Me Down

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Secco is revealed to be an orphan who was by his own from a very early age, with this in mind, his obsession with ice cream could be readed as his way of enjoying the things he couldn't properly have while he was kid now that he can borrow them.
  • More cynical viewers had pointed out that one early story mentions Secco's cousin, leading to multiple potential interpretations: One, that Secco was lying about being an orphan to either make his point come across or make himself look better. Two, Secco was lying about having a cousin and was hiding he was an orphan from Zero until he snapped out of snapping for Zero's excesively sympathetic attitude towards Cesare. Three, Secco was an orphan in the sense of not having any parents but still had a family that just didn't supported him, so both points are correct.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • One of the Neo-Nazis is drawn as a grey-skinned mute zombie for some reason.
  • The two-second sight gag of Zero, Cesare and his mother getting turned into black-and-white Inkblot Cartoon Style characters after being sucked into a Stargate. (The Stargate itself sort of makes sense because it represents the embarrassment Zero is feeling when trying to make small talk with people he did not see in twenty years)
• Broken Base: Michele Rech voicing all of the characters in the Framing Device like he did in Tear Along the Dotted Line. Concensus is that it worked well in the previous series thanks to it's more wacky and comedy-driven tone (at least until the final episode) but opinions are mixed in how it worked into this dramatic storyline. Some fans think Rech had enough range to pulled off, while other fans think it would have made scenes like Sarah's monologue in episode 4 or Secco's speech in episode 6 more poignant if their voice actors said those scenes.
• Character Rerailment: Secco is much more similar to his original comic book characterization, going from merely The Slacker to a Bomb Throwing Anarchist Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass who is also capable of actual emotion.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the beginning Zero uses the internet to look up Silvio Berlusconi, and not a caricature, but the real deal. Just three days after the show's premiere, the man passed away.
• Narm: Sarah's monologue in episode 4 is a tear jerker and is shaping up to become the show's Signature Scene. However, not everybody is okay with the decision of having Michele Rech voice her in such a poignant scene, and would have preferred to let the actress voicing Sarah in the "reality" scenes speak in that instance, instead of Rech talking about heavy concepts in a girlish voice.
• Narm Charm: With that said, Michele Rech's performace is good enough to make the scene work.

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