4. There’s a feminist theme (Marian as leader), a theme of racial equality, and a denigration of the traditional hero. These are all familiar tropes in mass culture influenced by “social justice” today.
2. I must admit that even my father—an engineer w/ barely any interest in movies—saw a Star Wars film a few years ago & said to me, “There was something odd about Han Solo.” He couldn’t describe it, since it’s not his thing. I presumed that the character was dicked with by SJWs.
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3. I do think it’s a sign of industries in decline, although part of me thinks it’s just my age (i.e. there was someone my age now in 1994 watching “Maid Marian and Her Merry Men” thinking “My God, this is outrageously weirded/political correctness gone mad.”
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4. The idea of unavoidable and universal decline isn’t settling. But, on the other hand, I suppose it’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge, once you finish you have to start again bc the first bit has declined. Endless re-painting to fight entropy.
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Look at popular shows on vs back then. Off the top of my head in the USA, shows like Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, or old Nickelodeon cartoons, it was mostly white and straight. Compare the offerings now on Netflix etc
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1. I don’t watch Netflix (though I did use it for films when I was in a house share 7 or so years ago). I’m quite disconnected from mass cult. It’s difficult to unpick, since some of the change genuinely reflects dmeographic changes in the US&UK.
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2. But it’s the ideas behind the characters that’s disturbing, not the demographic categories per se. From what I’ve glimpsed, there seems to be a cruel and vicious streak in the representations in the latest iterations of PC/SJW.
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