There's an episode where they find a huge underwater pyramid that has ancient Greek writing on it. A character gets possessed and starts speaking Greek. It turns out it's The Temple of Minerva built by Neptune. Now if you had a thing for mythology, like I did, as a kid you probably notice those are the Roman names of the gods. And Minerva is a black woman. This is in the early 90s.
This "replacement rot" has been going on for a long time
Although back then I didn’t have to endlessly hear about diversity and representation. Other than that nonsense, is it a good show? Have it on my list to check out eventually. I remember it being on but I had very little access to the remote then
The first season is pretty solid near-future sci-fi. Season 2 went completely off the rails. Season 3 was much darker, competent military Sci fi, but by that time half the original cast were gone and it didn't feel like the same show at all
Thanks. Maybe I’ll just watch season 1
I haven't made it to Season 3 yet. I'm looking forward to Michael Ironside though
DarkseidIronside is.I didn't hate it. It's a bit unsatisfying as it got cut short when the ratings didn't improve and the network canceled it.
It's cheesy and inconsistent in tone and canon. Plots and character arcs change from episode to episode. The effects are bad, even for 90s tv. And as I pointed out they make mistakes like I pointed out above, using the Roman gods name to a temple they claim is Greek. It's a silly mistake, and I wonder how that makes it to the final print. I personally wouldn't recommend it
Yea you’d think somebody would have some mythology knowledge at a basic level
Wasn't that what the GELF storyline touched on at times?
They had a bunch of minority analogies treated badly episodes.
I would still say the occasional “racism is bad” using the standard definition isn’t anywhere near endless lectures about how bad white ppl are. I remember a few Different World episodes where black characters were called out for their anti white racism. One episode the character asked why he needed to learn European history and the professor gave a good explanation. Definitely wouldn’t see that today