Here's what I predict. Take a kaiju movie that you could probably tell in two hours. It has the typical hallmarks: humans sense disturbances going on with kaiju activity, struggle to understand what it is the kaiju are doing (or what the kaiju even are), and struggle even more to survive once the kaiju finally start doing kaiju stuff (destroying cities, fighting other kaiju, etc.). And of course, the kaiju stuff that we all want to see that will only take up about 10-20 minutes of screentime. Now stretch that out to at least 8 hours, pad the runtime by spreading all the human characters across different factions that are opposed to one another, if not at outright war, have them constantly plot and scheme against their enemies, allies and even people within their own factions to create INTREEG! in a story about gigantic monsters, throw in some illicit sexual affairs and token romances that don't need to be there, and still keep the kaiju action to 10-20 minutes of screentime across the entire season. Maybe even less, and with much worse visuals because they won't have the budget or talent to make the spectacle of a big screen production. That's what this series is going to be because that's practically what all TV serials are now. And that's assuming there won't be any ESG-farming content into account.
And this is from someone who likes Legendary's MonsterVerse.
Don’t forget that this is CURRENT YEAR. So at least 80% of those unnecessary romance will be LGBT and/or interracial. Also “monster destroys city; women and LGBT most affected.”
Oh, and I’ll put money on a tranny and/or black character remarking that “some people would consider ME to be a monster.”
I’ve seen all of the Monarch movies. I like kaiju films. I think the Monarch movies are generally mediocre to bad, with “Skull Island” probably the best and “Godzilla vs. Kong” the worst.
Yup, the sad reality is they know they will lure in a lot of normies and fans of the Monsterverse because of great actors like John Goodman and Kurt Russell (with Wyatt playing a younger version of his dad's character, which is really cool).
The problem is that like all of these shows that have great trailers and recognisable actors, once you get into the show you'll be pimp-slapped with all kinds of wokeness after the pilot (or if it's aimed at being multi-season, they might have a really compelling first season, and a woke second season, or if it's only one season, the first episode might be tolerable and then everything else falls apart after that).
It was funny watching through Ted Lasso this year. The first two seasons were tolerable. But then the third just shit the bed with wokeness. Almost every episode felt like “this time, on a very special episode of Ted Lasso …”. What was really funny was how toothless it simultaneously was. Like in the one that focused on homophobia, they actually censored out the word “faggot.” I remember back in the 90’s there was a special episode of A Different World about racism. In it, some white guys begin spray painting the word “nigger” on a black character’s car but get stopped partway. At the end of the episode, after everyone’s learned their lesson, they go back to the car and find someone finished the graffitti (signifying there’s still much to be done on the road to understanding; a great bookend to the story). These days, they wouldn’t even dare to show the start of word, let alone the full thing, and instead make allusions to the car being vandalized with something offensive (a dick? a swastika? the “ok” hand gesture?) to rob the message of its impact.
some white guys begin spray painting the word “nigger” on a black character’s car but get stopped partway. At the end of the episode, after everyone’s learned their lesson, they go back to the car and find someone finished the graffitti (signifying there’s still much to be done on the road to understanding; a great bookend to the story).
That clip actually popped up in my YouTube feed some time ago, and I was actually impressed with how they handled that back in the day. Didn't they get things sorted with the initial jocks who tried spray-painting it? I can't remember, but from what I recall they avoided the the kind of woke race-bashing that we see these days being levied against White characters.
These days, they wouldn’t even dare to show the start of word, let alone the full thing,
That's the other thing. Shows are so afraid to even address the topics they're preaching that they lose all semblance of effect and poignancy due to being as toothless as you pointed out.
To their credit, I remember there was a Boston Public episode that addressed a black guy who had a White friend who he called "nigga/nigger" (one of the two variations of the word), and a bunch of other black people chimped out about this black guy calling his White friend that. And so the episode was about the empowerment of words, meanings, history, and why some people are okay with it and others aren't. I think the teacher in that episode got in trouble for having a class about it, but he was trying to reason that nothing would change if they didn't tackle and discuss these topics head-on, which I thought was interesting at the time.
It’s been a long time since I saw the show (when it first aired!) but obviously it was good enough for me to remember it fairly well 30-something years later. I recall that the white jocks spray painting the word on the character’s car was prompted by an escalating argument over something else. That felt much more realistic than these days, where it would just be a bunch of racist whites running around trying to terrorize blacks unprovoked. Also, the show made a point of how even the black characters had prejudices. At one point, both the whites and blacks are locked up (jail cell? campus holding?) and one of the blacks accosts the (white) cop (campus security) as being racist. At that point the cop shut him down by saying that he marched for black rights in the 60’s. You definitely don’t see that sort of thing these days.
I've watched 3 shows from Apple TV: "See", "For All Mankind", and "Foundation." They're pretty cool, although Foundation is straying from the books more and more in S2. I like Mankind a lot. It had opportunities to go really woke and actually restrained.
Nope.
Nah.
Here's what I predict. Take a kaiju movie that you could probably tell in two hours. It has the typical hallmarks: humans sense disturbances going on with kaiju activity, struggle to understand what it is the kaiju are doing (or what the kaiju even are), and struggle even more to survive once the kaiju finally start doing kaiju stuff (destroying cities, fighting other kaiju, etc.). And of course, the kaiju stuff that we all want to see that will only take up about 10-20 minutes of screentime. Now stretch that out to at least 8 hours, pad the runtime by spreading all the human characters across different factions that are opposed to one another, if not at outright war, have them constantly plot and scheme against their enemies, allies and even people within their own factions to create INTREEG! in a story about gigantic monsters, throw in some illicit sexual affairs and token romances that don't need to be there, and still keep the kaiju action to 10-20 minutes of screentime across the entire season. Maybe even less, and with much worse visuals because they won't have the budget or talent to make the spectacle of a big screen production. That's what this series is going to be because that's practically what all TV serials are now. And that's assuming there won't be any ESG-farming content into account.
And this is from someone who likes Legendary's MonsterVerse.
Don’t forget that this is CURRENT YEAR. So at least 80% of those unnecessary romance will be LGBT and/or interracial. Also “monster destroys city; women and LGBT most affected.” Oh, and I’ll put money on a tranny and/or black character remarking that “some people would consider ME to be a monster.”
Absolutely nailed it.
I’ve seen all of the Monarch movies. I like kaiju films. I think the Monarch movies are generally mediocre to bad, with “Skull Island” probably the best and “Godzilla vs. Kong” the worst.
I wouldn’t have high hopes for this.
Apple tv? Will be full of agenda pushing.
They have some shows that arent terrible but i dont think there is one where the gay commies arent trying to colonize your brainspace.
Yup, the sad reality is they know they will lure in a lot of normies and fans of the Monsterverse because of great actors like John Goodman and Kurt Russell (with Wyatt playing a younger version of his dad's character, which is really cool).
The problem is that like all of these shows that have great trailers and recognisable actors, once you get into the show you'll be pimp-slapped with all kinds of wokeness after the pilot (or if it's aimed at being multi-season, they might have a really compelling first season, and a woke second season, or if it's only one season, the first episode might be tolerable and then everything else falls apart after that).
It was funny watching through Ted Lasso this year. The first two seasons were tolerable. But then the third just shit the bed with wokeness. Almost every episode felt like “this time, on a very special episode of Ted Lasso …”. What was really funny was how toothless it simultaneously was. Like in the one that focused on homophobia, they actually censored out the word “faggot.” I remember back in the 90’s there was a special episode of A Different World about racism. In it, some white guys begin spray painting the word “nigger” on a black character’s car but get stopped partway. At the end of the episode, after everyone’s learned their lesson, they go back to the car and find someone finished the graffitti (signifying there’s still much to be done on the road to understanding; a great bookend to the story). These days, they wouldn’t even dare to show the start of word, let alone the full thing, and instead make allusions to the car being vandalized with something offensive (a dick? a swastika? the “ok” hand gesture?) to rob the message of its impact.
That clip actually popped up in my YouTube feed some time ago, and I was actually impressed with how they handled that back in the day. Didn't they get things sorted with the initial jocks who tried spray-painting it? I can't remember, but from what I recall they avoided the the kind of woke race-bashing that we see these days being levied against White characters.
That's the other thing. Shows are so afraid to even address the topics they're preaching that they lose all semblance of effect and poignancy due to being as toothless as you pointed out.
To their credit, I remember there was a Boston Public episode that addressed a black guy who had a White friend who he called "nigga/nigger" (one of the two variations of the word), and a bunch of other black people chimped out about this black guy calling his White friend that. And so the episode was about the empowerment of words, meanings, history, and why some people are okay with it and others aren't. I think the teacher in that episode got in trouble for having a class about it, but he was trying to reason that nothing would change if they didn't tackle and discuss these topics head-on, which I thought was interesting at the time.
It’s been a long time since I saw the show (when it first aired!) but obviously it was good enough for me to remember it fairly well 30-something years later. I recall that the white jocks spray painting the word on the character’s car was prompted by an escalating argument over something else. That felt much more realistic than these days, where it would just be a bunch of racist whites running around trying to terrorize blacks unprovoked. Also, the show made a point of how even the black characters had prejudices. At one point, both the whites and blacks are locked up (jail cell? campus holding?) and one of the blacks accosts the (white) cop (campus security) as being racist. At that point the cop shut him down by saying that he marched for black rights in the 60’s. You definitely don’t see that sort of thing these days.
I've watched 3 shows from Apple TV: "See", "For All Mankind", and "Foundation." They're pretty cool, although Foundation is straying from the books more and more in S2. I like Mankind a lot. It had opportunities to go really woke and actually restrained.
For all mankind was almost good. Then it focused on women.
lol that's true.