The ever present Revolution
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People are oversensitive, hysterical, and stupid.
Yeah, they were moving slowly and carefully, and now everything is present so they can't use those tricks anymore.
the problem is quality. everything else is a deflection.
put the original star trek or even TNG on next to STD or Lower Decks, and you can the difference in quality of the storytelling, the humor, etc. the effects aren't as good, usually, but the storytelling is usually on point in the older series, even if you find the message distasteful. It's because the new crop of writers, directors, actors, etc. don't really understand the art of storytelling, they only understand the message they want to push, and so that's what they focus on, banging away with a cargo cult's understanding and an ideologue's fervor.
Meanwhile, those who know what's going on but support the message do their damnest to deflect from the stark reality that western entertainment is in a death spiral.
It's the same reason they go after anime, again, quality is the problem.
Discovery I'll give you.
But when I gave Lower Decks a fair shot, though I hated the first two episodes...it picked up surprisingly well after that.
I wound up watching all 30 episodes from the first three seasons before we had to cut Paramount Plus to save some money. I found it significantly more entertaining than I expected--it's not as good as TNG or DS9 or even Voyager or Enterprise, no, but it was the best NuTrek had to offer. It felt like an affectionate self-parody.
Then it went woke in season 4, so it ended up counting anyway. We dropped it at the right time.
yeah...orville did the same thing...I stopped watching because i dropped netflix, and I never watch tv on tv anymore, but the first two seasons were legitimately good, probably because they had actually star trek alum writing episodes, then it apparently just went to shit after that...
Yep, had me till the 4th paragraph.