I probably wouldn't watch them if they were on now. People rave about Expanse and whatever else. Expanse has a broccoli-headed niggress mutt, I'm not watching it.
That said, I'm in the same boat as you, unwilling to completely let go of the propaganda of my youth, so I practice apologetics for them.
Star Trek is funny because the structure is innately conservative. Not right-wing, but Conservative. The only way for your show to be set hundreds of years in the future and have characters constantly reference the present and idolize the era, is for Conservatism to have utterly won, where society exists to transmit the culture of the mid twentieth century forever.
Though, given what I know now, that itself sounds like a kind of hell.
I probably wouldn't watch them if they were on now. People rave about Expanse and whatever else. Expanse has a broccoli-headed niggress mutt, I'm not watching it.
That said, I'm in the same boat as you, unwilling to completely let go of the propaganda of my youth, so I practice apologetics for them.
Star Trek is funny because the structure is innately conservative. Not right-wing, but Conservative. The only way for your show to be set hundreds of years in the future and have characters constantly reference the present and idolize the era, is for Conservatism to have utterly won, where society exists to transmit the culture of the mid twentieth century forever.
Though, given what I know now, that itself sounds like a kind of hell.