Politics is inextricable from EDHIPAC’s core and it brings much of its failings.
While not necessarily “confused,” there’s a noticeable unevenness to how the situation is presented and how compromises may be achieved. Characters are presented both as being too deep into their ideologies and easily influenced by very minor retorts. The “Prog” is particularly shown to have to bend over backwards for nearly every point the “Con” makes often and with little of the opposite happening. This muddles the intended message “learning and changing with each other” and instead leaning more in the favour of Con’s opinions.
The character interactions also suffer here. For too much of the story, the dialogue devolves into political debate, that doesn’t really get at the core of either ideology, only to end with “let’s not talk about this,” defanging its commentary. The whole experience comes off as shallow in the ways of understanding these ideas and how interpersonal compromise may be achieved. This culminates in the developing relationship between the characters feeling unearned, especially given how Prog was so resistant at the start.
As for technical aspects, this project is perfectly competent. Blocking, transitions, audiovisual effects and even the writing itself display a level of control and knowledge of the medium.
EDHIPAC is mostly alright, but goes more than it can chew. With the “can’t we all just get along” vibes coming off as out of touch and the developing relationship feeling cheap, this project fumbles the delivery of a possibly interesting premise.