I’d say Westworld and Stranger Things comes to mind because I remember reading in season three the original plan was for that man and woman at the ice cream place to get together but they decided to make her gay for no reason. In a show that’s an homage to the 80s a reformed jock with a nerdy girl is a perfect couple.
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This thread is fascinating to me -- given I don't have much time for series and have mostly given up on them m-- basically it looks like any and every show that had any promise goes woke the second season onward (or something akin to that).
I'm a little shocked no one mentioned Altered Carbon? I have not watched it but I remember people talking about how there was a serious drop-off in quality for the second season (can't speak to the truth of it) but it seemed like the consensus among most people was that there was a good first season and then a woke second season?
That being said, it doesn't sound like much has changed since SJWs started luring people in with a decent first season and then flipping the script and going woke on the subsequent seasons.
Altered Carbon season 2 was shit for reasons other than woke, although that didn't help. Season 1 was an adaptation of book 1. Season 2 was an adaptation of both books 2 and 3 while also heavily skewing the story hard towards Falconer who apparently wasn't ever that prominent in the books, and writing Kovac in several ways that just went against what the character was meant to be.
Spoilers for how it ends: while Kovac is by no means suicidal and actively trying to die, he was still fighting against the concept of the Meths back before his original imprisonment in season 1. Season 2 all but ends with him becoming one after dying and having his stack/brain scan/soul digitally recreated by Poe.
Seeing as how his pre-story younger self also now exists because of Jaeger double sleeving him decades ago, it wasn't even needed because a version of him, albeit centuries younger from before meeting Falconer and training to become an Envoy, was alive in his original body/actor.
Yes it would have still meant the version from the books/seasons was dead, but that bittersweet victory fit with the show, and meant Kovac went out with a noble sacrifice.
Being able to bring him back again just cheapens his death, and death in general, even more.
I see. Thanks for the explanation. I never bothered looking too deeply into the reasons -- the echo and noise from passing by communities was just that the second season was nowhere near as good as the first, and some attributing it to going woke. But thanks for explaining how they undercut the story and character.
Don't get me wrong, going woke was definitely part of the reason season 2 wasn't as good, it just wasn't the only reason.
I saw the first season of Altered Carbon but had already cancelled Netflix by the time the second one came around. I heard about it though. Now my general rule of thumb is to not watch or read anything after 2014 unless a trusted source recommends it