• Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    media industry: sucks all creativity out of the craft and replaces it with metrics and focus groups geared towards mass appeal

    🤡: it sucks cause there’s a woman in it

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      My favourite accusation of woke was people complaining about princes leia being old and unattractive now. Like no shit? It’s been 40ish years?

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      It doesn’t suck because of the “woke” stuff

      It sucks because apparently a multi billion dollar company sucks as writing.

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      The criticism is more “it sucks because all the producers cared about was getting a woman in it”.

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        That’s the more valid criticism. There’s plenty of criticism in the “wamen bad” category.

      • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        yes so obsessed by a very difficult and time-consuming decision of “getting a woman in a movie”. That choice was such a vital investment that it should become a cornerstone of any critique

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    Sometimes a story becomes a saga, which then becomes a franchise, which then becomes a genre, which then becomes a medium.

    Star Wars has gone beyond that; it’s become its own economy, where it’s even spawning industries of its own. And one of those industries (which sucks) are Star Wars reaction/outrage merchants, who live off the crumbs of Star Wars by appealing to people who don’t even like the damn thing.