DS9 is one of those shows that when I think back on it, I remember it being okay. But then when I rewatch it, there was some pretty dang good episodes. Back when Star Trek was still in the campy-serious sweet spot. Before the dark days of everything being grimdark.
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Also back when TV shows could inject social commentary (for the most part) without heavy-handed wokery.
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Why is it that people fail to understand that a little bit of grim-dark goes a long way?
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It’s kind of weird...not a perfect analogy, but I might liken it to salt. When you eat salty snacks, you keep craving more. The times in my life were I was really into emo and grimdarky stuff was when I had more drama and pain going on, personally.
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I think part of it may be that people who are suffering tend to consume that kind of content.
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Maybe kind of like...when you’re depressed or angry, sometimes it’s satisfying to just wallow in that emotion and perpetuate it, unhealthy as that is.
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I think the popularity of grimdark nihilistic media these days says something about the mental and emotional state of our society.
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But this is all just unscientfic conjecture on my part.
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Here’s my analysis of the last 100 years of broken familial attachment in America and how it has altered public tastes in storytelling.https://adamlanesmith.com/2020/05/16/heroes-dark-heroes-and-antiheroes-how-audience-preferences-have-changed-through-the-generations-and-what-comes-next/ …
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