• darthsid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t mind wokeness if the story is good, but to crash a story to champion wokeness is unacceptable to me.

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      10 months ago

      Lmao first interracial kiss, champion of non-binary, trans, and gay people for the super obvious if you used two or more brain cells when watching metaphor characters sprinkled all over the seasons.

      Sure, go ahead and say this hasn’t always been star trek.

      This is like people who think Starship Trooper is a Gung-go military action thriller… I’d ask if you’d like to know more, but if you did, you wouldn’t be this dumb.

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        10 months ago

        I’d argue that if your sci-fi isn’t pushing boundaries with that sorta stuff, it’s not doing its job.

        PS: Buenos Aires was an inside job

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          10 months ago

          THANK YOU!

          My dad is definitely the type to think Starship Trooper was a cool pro-military movie, but surprisingly he gets that it’s satire and mocking his former job.

          However, he still upholds that the BUGS somehow managed to launch an attack against earth, somehow either aiming at a populated area or getting EXTREMELY lucky, from ACROSS THE GALAXY

          Nah it was 100% an inside job.

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          10 months ago

          I mean, zero issues with anyone creating any show to express any narratives. But sci Fi doesn’t NEED to address social issues to be interesting. It doesn’t need to be allegorical or anything else to do it’s job.

          That said much of the best sci Fi certainly does.

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        10 months ago

        … We are talking about the TV show with an episode where they show it’s wrong for aliens with black and white skin to discriminate against the same aliens with white and black skin, right? Just making sure we and the “the story is bad because wokeness is at the forefront” comment are on the same page.

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      10 months ago

      I’m sure that you feel like you’re saying something very profound, but for most people that’s just gibberish.

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      10 months ago

      Please provide an example of when this has happened so we can notify the appropriate parties and get them to ease up for you.

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              10 months ago

              Sorry, I am discussing with too many people simultaneously already and I got tired of it. Please just read my several other comments in this thread where all my points have been made. Apologies.

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        10 months ago

        Oh, hey, great argument. You basically just said “True dat.” Try adding something substantive next time, or at least be funny.

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          10 months ago

          Trek has always been woke but the woke messages in classic Trek were embedded in good stories so it felt smart and natural. That is why fans of classic Trek embrace the way it is woke. Discovery on the other hand constantly puts the woke element in the center, points three spotlights on it and then paints it neon until there is no more room left for a good story and mature viewers feel treated like they were idiots. It is sad how younger fans seem to be unable to perceive this significant difference and accuse people who do of bigotry.

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        10 months ago

        Didn’t you get the memo? Star Trek is OK now, Star Wars is woke. This brought to you by people who do the Vulcan Salute wrong.

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          10 months ago

          The Last Jedi is the only good Star Wars movie since the original. ESB ruined Star Wars by making it a dynastic story.