Do you know why I don’t spend as much time as commentators I follow discussing “them durn SJWs” and their “woke agenda”? I mean, I totally believe that’s happening because I can see it and they celebrate the fact that they’re putting tokenized stereotypes that make them look good to their fellow clueless morons who also don’t understand how human beings who aren’t as high on the societal ladder and media pecking order as they are and just see a bunch of skin colors and lifestyles without really understanding them and just want to look good for the praise and to win at the latest award show, as well as use the people they claim to be a voice for to hide their terrible writing and major changes to established and beloved characters and properties whether the “voiceless” agree with their perspective or not.
That was cathartic.
The reason is this is only challenging one problem, but it doesn’t solve HOW the political ideologues and “hacktivist” writers got into that position in the first place. These are the social climbing elite using the current cause du jour for their own ends, the same types who looked down on the geeks in school before realizing that with all the new technologies that a geek is exactly what you need, and of course ignores that “sports geek” is still a geek. If you know the RBI for every current and past player of your favorite baseball team…sorry, you’re a geek. Pick up your card at the desk, and some of us DO use hand sanitizer and bathe regularly. (I just got out of the shower a little while ago.)
So they hate the idea that science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories–treated as “geek genre” by the more snobby social cliques, are now being seen as a viable market by the studio execs and almost seem to be on a mission to scuttle anything in those genres. This seems especially truly when they’re based on comics and video games, the lowest rungs of the media pecking order along with tabletop RPGs. At least anime, which they also hate because cartoons don’t feature the actors in person, gives card games a decent adaptation. I mean, you won’t learn how to play by watching most of them, and the idea of a world obsessed with one card game is kind of insane (looking at you, Yu-Gi-Oh), but at least it’s treated as something fun instead of mocked. Hollywood’s solution is to “make it better”. Make it live-action, make it more “mature” (even when the source material already is, Netflix), make it more grounded in their skewed version of reality, and if you disagree you’re a “hater” and a bigot. They ignore the rules of the fictional world previously established or the regions and periods that inspired them in order to make it more like their view of the “real world” because they don’t care about the source material, if not outright oppose it. As if “people in tights flying around punching each other” is in any form “realistic”. Let’s look at a few examples.
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Do you know why I don’t spend as much time as commentators I follow discussing “them durn SJWs” and their “woke agenda”? I mean, I totally believe that’s happening because I can see it and they celebrate the fact that they’re putting tokenized stereotypes that make them look good to their fellow clueless morons who also don’t understand how human beings who aren’t as high on the societal ladder and media pecking order as they are and just see a bunch of skin colors and lifestyles without really understanding them and just want to look good for the praise and to win at the latest award show, as well as use the people they claim to be a voice for to hide their terrible writing and major changes to established and beloved characters and properties whether the “voiceless” agree with their perspective or not.
That was cathartic.
The reason is this is only challenging one problem, but it doesn’t solve HOW the political ideologues and “hacktivist” writers got into that position in the first place. These are the social climbing elite using the current cause du jour for their own ends, the same types who looked down on the geeks in school before realizing that with all the new technologies that a geek is exactly what you need, and of course ignores that “sports geek” is still a geek. If you know the RBI for every current and past player of your favorite baseball team…sorry, you’re a geek. Pick up your card at the desk, and some of us DO use hand sanitizer and bathe regularly. (I just got out of the shower a little while ago.)
So they hate the idea that science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories–treated as “geek genre” by the more snobby social cliques, are now being seen as a viable market by the studio execs and almost seem to be on a mission to scuttle anything in those genres. This seems especially truly when they’re based on comics and video games, the lowest rungs of the media pecking order along with tabletop RPGs. At least anime, which they also hate because cartoons don’t feature the actors in person, gives card games a decent adaptation. I mean, you won’t learn how to play by watching most of them, and the idea of a world obsessed with one card game is kind of insane (looking at you, Yu-Gi-Oh), but at least it’s treated as something fun instead of mocked. Hollywood’s solution is to “make it better”. Make it live-action, make it more “mature” (even when the source material already is, Netflix), make it more grounded in their skewed version of reality, and if you disagree you’re a “hater” and a bigot. They ignore the rules of the fictional world previously established or the regions and periods that inspired them in order to make it more like their view of the “real world” because they don’t care about the source material, if not outright oppose it. As if “people in tights flying around punching each other” is in any form “realistic”. Let’s look at a few examples.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 9, 2022 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, writing movies, writing tips.
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