My personal concerns are not a political issue. They're my concerns. If you think your personal concerns are something that should be the government's concerns then you have an inflated opinion of yourself.
Very few of your concerns (or anyone's) are exclusively "personal," though. As John Donne observed way back in 1624,
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind."
Also, if you think of politics only as things that "should be the government's concern," you have a very narrow conception of politics. (And even within that conception, what
you or I may think is the government's concern and what
the government thinks is the government's concern are not necessarily the same thing...)
That's ridiculously reductionist and simplistic.
No, quite the contrary. It involves acknowledging the complex multiple causal factors and ripple effects involved in human actions. What's reductionist and simplistic is pretending the political aspects
aren't there.
When I watch movies or TV series, I don't want people to try to draw me into their political nonsense.
The kind of people who refer to political themes as "nonsense" are the kind who are comfortable enjoying unearned privilege thanks to the
status quo.
One could definitely argue that it wasn't political at all. Political is "A Private Little War." It was certainly thoughtful and "about something" but it wasn't about politics.
I can't begin to
imagine how one could argue "Devil in the Dark" was apolitical, but feel free to try. Just off the top of my head, if you don't see the theme there about colonialism and exploitation of native resources, then you're trying very hard not to look.
Meanwhile, on a whole other topic!...
Of course you don't. But a reboot is going to try and attract the next generation to Babylon 5. IIRC it's on Amazon Prime now, but I can't imagine many millennials checking it out, because you'd need the nostalgia factor to look past the production limitations.
Just for the record, the current somewhat rough look of
B5's effects on DVD (and streaming) isn't actually a result of "production limitations." It's more a result of after-the-fact penny-pinching by Warner Brothers. Long story short, the original effects as produced were more sophisticated than they look now; it's just that they were only rendered at 4:3 for original broadcast... then, later, for DVD (and subsequent) releases, WB would only pay for a cheap pan-and-scan crop job, working from the interlaced video, to blow the images back up to 16:9. JMS reports that WB actually still has a pristine archival
film master of the whole show (albeit in 4:3) that could be used to strike a new print, making the CG look much sharper than the current version, but they haven't made it available.
This article is really fascinating and informative.
