'Star Trek: Discovery' - How This Show Still Running?
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I used to know plenty of people that were into TNG, DS9, etc.
I've never met a single person "in the wild" who watches Discovery. Literally, not a single person. I have met some who watched Picard, and the response is almost always "Well, it's so nice to see the gang back together again..."
Star Trek is dead at this point. What remains is unrecognizable to what we loved and largely indistinguishable from Star Wars.
I met a Discovery fan. He was an older guy and very liberal. He insistented that the people who didn’t like Discovery just couldn’t appreciate that this was Star Trek for a new audience and that they should stop being babies and stick to their old Trek if they must.
Discovery fans don’t truly like the show. They’re just invested in it being successful.
The only kind who could possibly like it are the types that don't actually pay attention to what they're watching. They sit on their phone doing something else and only look up at the screen when a moving musical score or action scene starts. The show's beats are designed to push the emotional buttons of people like that.
I'd argue, in addition, that anyone watching a show like STD are the kind of people who consume mainstream news, and unironically believe every word.
These are the kinds of people who can be convinced, within 24 hours, that BLM can riot, not have to social distance, and not have to wear face masks, during the whole Covid scaredemic, because the news told them so, where previously, they had been convinced that anyone not social distancing and not wearing a mask wanted to kill everyone's grandma and genocide the people of the earth. Then, when the BLM riots stopped, the news did a complete 180, again, and now anyone not social distancing and wearing face masks were literally Hitler.
These kinds of people are so detached from reality, logic, and logical consistency, that they couldn't see a contradiction if it shot them in the face. Their ability to reason has been stripped from them. They're the NPC meme personified.
I'd also argue that there has to be an environmental factor to this, as this phenomenon has clearly gotten worse over time. There's probably something (or many things) in our food, water, and medicine which is making people more docile, stupid, and accepting of brainwashing.