A buddy of mine sent me an article from a shill media site because he knew I’d roll my eyes and it was the usual tripe attacking fans and praised the last Jedi for “showing” that it’s ok to make bold decisions that fans don’t realize they need. Of course it mentioned that “fanboys were mad because they wanted a heroic Luke”. Of the many reasons I despise that movie, one is definitely this notion that subversion of expectations is brilliant writing.
What’s wrong with wanting to see a hero of a movie be heroic? I hope Rian Johnson never gets a hold of Superman. To be fair TFA should’ve had an opening scene with Luke training new Jedi. Had Rey been one of his students she would’ve been received much better. Plus you could’ve had more Jedi characters to build future stories and could’ve had Luke’s Jedi Academy at Disney world as an attraction.
Anyway, sorry about that rant. I just find that “subversion” as annoying as the Stranger Thigs season 3 where they set up that guy and the girl at the ice cream shop to be a couple (original plan) only to make her gay. Media shills actually called that a bold move. About as bold as race/gender swaps. A show that is an homage to the 80s thought that was a good idea
What's wrong with it is that everything old was shit, and everything they do now is new and subversive. If your expectations were subverted, and they pushed a message, then it's perfect and you should kill yourself.
This is because wanting to consume things that are good is a sign of petty bourgeois capitalism, and you should kill yourself for it.
This is also because wanting to consume things that are not THE MESSAGE is counter-revolutionary, and you should kill yourself for it.
You shouldn't be asking to consume things you want in the first place, because that is capitalism, and you should kill yourself for it.
What you are supposed to do is clap and cheer hysterically at whatever narcissism they've shit onto a medium, because if you were a good person, you could be a narcissist like them and live vicariously through their insane Mary Sue power-fantasy that is laden with virtue signaling.
I've noticed this is more common in non-Western media and I think China is what really drives this. You have explosions and the "good guys" winning without much struggle and they love it.
As much as people like to champion anime and manga over western media, a lot of it is just as bad as Marvel in terms of plot yet sells fairly well.
Manga and anime are created by people who like what they're doing and want to entertain people by telling a story, US comics and shows are mostly done by people who hate you and think ill of you and your values.
I'd consider most of them to be the same quality of story as Marvel and Transformers movies, which is my point. The values are simply more popular, but there's a lot of "the good guys win because they're good" even in non-chosen ones stories.
It's the same thing. Leftist ideology is always like this because they are pushing that whomever is morally perfect along the current narrative.
Star Trek once made a reference to authoritarianist literature like this. The problem with Trek is that they assume all conservative and all illiberal societies are like this and only liberalism has a monopoly on depth and creativity. By the time the Leftists subvert the liberal order, it is no longer possible for the remaining Leftists to create anything; while they simultaneously claim to have a monopoly on creativity.
This is why they claim that everything they do is brilliant and brave, despite being repetitive and obviously subversive to an order/hierarchy that is either dead or no longer exists; and condemn all non-Leftist stories as repeating tired drivel.
You can see this in their comedy too. Feminist comedians literally stop telling jokes halfway through their set and then start lecturing; and it's claimed as absolutely fucking hysterical and heroic. Meanwhile, Dave Chapelle is just a tired old transphobe that's never said anything edgy in 20 years (despite the fact that their protestations indicate that he is hitting at an edge of accepted behavior in the society they cultivated through intimidation).