It is pretty formulaic for the most part (it does have some more nuanced and unusual dynamics later on )but I still enjoyed it. It’s like a Saturday morning cartoon you would watch while eating cereal as a kid. It’s just a cozy, chill sort of show you can watch when you feel like some nostalgic, cheesy, easy watching. It takes me back to a simpler time, if that simpler time was more also more culturally progressive, and that’s very comforting.
This is such a wildly theocratic move. Why would you not at least just keep them here and give them out to our citizens for free? The only answer could be that you see birth control as something bad to be avoided. And of course it coincidentally helps make sure the poor people keep producing plenty of future slaves. Just another happy alignment of slave-morality Christianity and the slavers