Is it possible that wokeism might die a quicker death than we all think? Looking at some of the recent or pending movie or tv series fails, surely the big wigs in Hollywood are going to come to (or should have already) the realisation that it doesn't correlate well with making money. I refer of course to things like Amazon's new Lord of the Rings series, Marvel's She Hulk just to name a few of the product that is unlikely to do well at the box office. I'm not even mentioning the fact that film studios were willing to cancel Jonny Depp without due process but are still reluctant to do the same fully to Amber Heard. Let's see how Aquaman 2 does, but I'm sensing that if there's even a sniff of her in the finished product the whole thing will tank. Time will tell I guess...
I think the new Lord of the Rings series is almost dead in the water before it even begins. They have a great source material to operate from, but they’ve upset fans everywhere, already, just by showing their trailer. One of the female cast members boasted that her character in the show is an activist. Galadriel is now a female arse-kicking action hero.
This ridiculous equating of every show with an opportunity to display their woke politics is monotonous, moronic, and kryptonite to the creative process. I’ve seen shows begging to be put down after going woke.
One example being the alt-history show, For All Mankind on Apple, which was great in season one, but then the diversity issues began to loudly intrude. A season set in the 1980’s became a dreary brochure for identity politics. The casting, a box ticking exercise.
Even worse was Foundation, also on Apple, which I was really looking forward to. This show replaced every good character in the books with a black female, so we easy knew who were the good and the bad guys - the baddies were the white cast members. Simples. And stupid. A story set immeasurable years into the future lectured us on climate change, patriarchy, structural racism, using the usual dimwitted far-left propaganda talking points.
Annie with an E! A woman’s show, granted, but in my defence, I had no choice. The missus friend recommended it. We watched. It rapidly became embarrassing. It might have titled every episode the way Friends used to, “The One about Racism”, “The one about patriarchy”, “The one about toxic masculinity”, “The one about homosexual schoolchildren”, “The one about whatever horrid whiteness thingies are in fashion today.”
So this also has a source material based upon books from the early 1900’s. What we discovered about the early 1900’s was that SJWs back then were as irritatingly wrongminded about everything as their modern day counterparts. What a pity we learn nothing from history.
Speaking of Friends, the creator of the show self-flagellated in public, looking for modish sympathy merits by wailing that she hadn’t done enough about racism in the show. These people are in charge of creativity on television?
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