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Akima:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Feb 2017, 23:22 ---they try to find the broadest, blandest and least controversial definition of 'human' for the Millennial audience.
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I don't know what that even means. Do Millennials® have a blander and less controversial definition of Hollywood human than, say, The Great Generation®, or Boomers®, for whom it was "almost entirely white people, and mostly men"? Come to think of it, that has only changed a little, hasn't it?
BenRG:
The point is, Akima, that modern media has a pathological fear of offending... someone... anyone. In attempting to avoid this, they usually end up offending everyone because they refuse to acknowledge very real issues and things that make different people unique.
Star Trek has had this problem (sanitising differing versions of the human condition and human cultures until they are blandly indistinguishable) as far back as the start of the Next Generation era but it has got much worse. My fear is that it is going to get worse yet.
Case:
--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Feb 2017, 16:58 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Feb 2017, 23:22 ---they try to find the broadest, blandest and least controversial definition of 'human' for the Millennial audience.
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I don't know what that even means. Do Millennials® have a blander and less controversial definition of Hollywood human than, say, The Great Generation®, or Boomers®, for whom it was "almost entirely white people, and mostly men"? Come to think of it, that has only changed a little, hasn't it?
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As a Gen-X-®, I feel hurt and offended by your erasure of my age-group. :cry:
J'accuse!
(click to show/hide) Just kidding - Gen-X-®s don't have feelings ...
Akima:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Feb 2017, 23:33 ---The point is, Akima, that modern media has a pathological fear of offending... someone... anyone.
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I don't think the evidence supports this. For example, Hollywood shows not the smallest fear of offending many women, or any hesitation in doing so: (click to show/hide)
I wonder if some people think that Hollywood is afraid of offending people, simply because women, ethnic minorities, people with the "wrong" religion, gays etc. are not entirely excluded, or not depicted in a sufficiently negative way, to conform with their prejudices. Consider the way an element of Star Wars fans went bonkers when two successive films had prominent female characters, after six consecutive films, and a bunch of animated TV series, with male protagonists. Or the way Browncoats swoon over Firefly despite its depiction of Chinese people as no more than a bunch of coolies in the background with nothing to say.
Kugai:
Considering that TOS did break several boundaries (A black female in a senior officer, if not a command position on the Bridge, tackling racism through allegory - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - Put a Russian on the Bridge of the ship in a senior position right smack dab in the middle of the Cold War, along with other issues) and tackled certain issues of it's day through allegory, once has to cringe a little bit about how a certain level of blandness did creep into it as Series such ad TNG et al came along.
Don't get me wrong, TOS did have it's problems, but for it's day, it was certainly ground breaking for a Sci-Fi show, let alone a TV show of that era.
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