• chetradley@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    lesbian space witches reproduce through immaculate conception

    That actually makes the show sound rad as hell.

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      3 months ago

      it could have been! they killed off all the space witches as soon as they were introduced.

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      3 months ago

      Except lol. That isn’t an accurate description.

      The immaculate conception was the conception of marry. It wasn’t the conception of Jesus.

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    3 months ago

    Strong disagree.

    It is perfectly possible to make woke content that is excellent , engaging, entertaining, consistent.

    However, woke is not a replacement for good story writing, Entertainment, everything else that makes a property good. Woke can be part of a good story, but it cannot be the story.

    Arcane is my go to example

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3h6Pszege4

    Let’s get George rr Martin working on a Star wars treatment!

    update:

    Having thought about it more, I think the issue is not woke content. You can make as much woke content as you like. The issue is the budgets are too big for the audience. Assuming you’re going to get the normal audience, plus the woke audience is the big mistake here. If you make niche content, the budget needs to be niche.

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      However, woke is not a replacement for good story writing, Entertainment, everything else that makes a property good. Woke can be part of a good story, but it cannot be the story.

      Hollywood strongly disagrees, based on how they seem to handle it most of the time.

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        3 months ago

        As long as they’re profitable that’s fine. If they’re not profitable then they might want to revisit that strategy.

        I think we hear screams of they’re not supporting our wokeness from the media properties that are very weak, that know they’re very weak, and this is the only thing they can talk about to get attention. It’s an act of desperation

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    3 months ago

    I tried to watch the show, I am a huge Star Wars fan but it was garbage. Everything about the show was garbage.

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      3 months ago

      yeah it was a train wreck. When the most important thing used to promote the show before it aired was how bigoted the fans are… That’s not a good sign.

      Procedural Jedi crime drama… That’s a home run… how do you fuck it up. Hire any of the writers from the wire and get them to write the show.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HO70-Rk3jE

      A home run! gift wrapped.