"Wade, use the sledgehammer to hit the switch that shocks the monkey, then a hologram of Ione Skye will appear! Look in her eyes!"https://twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/1331640507441811457 …
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I wish I could agree with you but I think there are a vast number of pop culture "fans" who are actually fully invested in the fetishization of pop culture totems divorced from any actual larger meaning. I think we see this in many things, like the vitriolic response to TLJ.
I wish I could now DISAGREE with you, but, damn, you're probably right. My mom, Eva, has this childlike and wonderful reaction to every time a character has her own name. "Oh! Eve!" She almost can't stop it. This is how RP1/2 feels to me.
It feels to me like it's largely abt lighting up certain receptors in our brain. Ooh, RoboCop, I like RoboCop! Ooh, lightsabers, those are awesome! As if it's these things themselves (& only, or mostly, these things) that matter and not the stories/ideas/values/etc they come from
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