So I know the writing was already on the wall when Scott Backula declined to join the production, and the new cast included no white men (except the trans mtf), and of course the smartest person in the room is invariably a trans.
Well, call me stupid but I loved the original and the new one came on a few weeks ago while I was staying at a hotel, so I actually got somewhat into it.
Started watching the entire season, which isn't finished yet, and the latest episode I finally get to watch is chock full of trans everything.
The guy leaps into the dad/coach of a trans kid on a girls' basketball team, one of the suspects in present day is a trans poet, there are multiple drawn out scenes where the main trans character has a heart-to-heart about how everybody who is trans tries to commit suicide, despite the obvious knowledge that before the trans trend, very few kids were committing suicide, and that the child suicide rate actually increased as trans became more popular.
And the biggest part that made me turn it off, is that they framed the episode as though the parents are bigots for wanting a biological male off the court of a girls' basketball team, even after it's made clear that bringing him into the game completely changed how it was going and they quickly won the game because of him.
They're not even pretending not to preach anymore. New television is a f'n struggle session now.
I can't even watch tv.
As a side note, has anybody noticed that most trans on tv are mtf. I don't think I recall seeing a ftm on television.
The original series isn’t progressive enough I guess. I know he leaped back into civil rights times and females for girl power. To be fair in the 80s and 90s growing up I wasn’t bombarded constantly about race or female empowerment so I didn’t mind so much. Now I could go the rest of my life without hearing about race (unless it was a legit honest discussion) and be happy. Same with girl power and lgbt
If you're not avoiding politics entirely, those are reasonable milestones to go back to.
I remember someone touting the black Panther movie as the first real black superhero movie and they said Blade didn’t do enough. So you are right. It’s never enough.
Blade was so much better than Black Panther. It did what it needed to. Be entertaining.
At least Black Panther had one awesome line in it, one that real world leaders need to take to heart.
"I am not the king of the world. I am the king of Wakanda."
Rest in peace, Chadwick.
But I’d say a preachy episode every now and then didn’t register with us because it wasn’t in everything. A lot of 80s and 90s sitcoms had the “very special episode” that addressed different things. I don’t mind hearing a lesson or a moral but today we are beat down with just one point of view.
I swear this sounds like costume reuse. Or even cheap actors in the form of re-enactors.
i don't remember the civil war episode, but wasn't the premise that he can only leap into people who existed within his own life time?