I almost don’t even think there is a fail state though, they’re so deep in the cause as you say, that if a woke-ified movie bombs they can’t admit defeat but take recourse in the argument thst it bombed because other people are racist and need even more “modern audiences” adaptations to fix them. The movement did seem to acknowledge that its attempted Hogwarts Legacy boycott backfired, but I’ve never seen such a moment of clarity around movies/TV generally as opposed to games, or around anything where they supported the thing rather than opposed it.
I remember a critic who loved the Last Jedi in late 2019 giving a sort of apology for attacking fans who didn’t like it and he could understand that people would be upset about an iconic hero being “deconstructed”
I almost don’t even think there is a fail state though, they’re so deep in the cause as you say, that if a woke-ified movie bombs they can’t admit defeat but take recourse in the argument thst it bombed because other people are racist and need even more “modern audiences” adaptations to fix them. The movement did seem to acknowledge that its attempted Hogwarts Legacy boycott backfired, but I’ve never seen such a moment of clarity around movies/TV generally as opposed to games, or around anything where they supported the thing rather than opposed it.
I remember a critic who loved the Last Jedi in late 2019 giving a sort of apology for attacking fans who didn’t like it and he could understand that people would be upset about an iconic hero being “deconstructed”