This is a genuinely sad comment.
Yes. But that's the way it is.
It cycles, as does media.
Indeed, yes. Because, well, I've always found something to move on to. Though Trek is not foundational to me as it is to others here. It was not my first sci-fi love, as it were.
The sad thing is that what I did have to move on to after quitting VOY and then abandoned ENT are no longer there.
OK, I have a hockey team to follow but that's it.
Music is gone and most of the TV entertainment too and the literature is also declining so I stick to biographies and such.
I'm with you, I hate it too, especially when hacky fantasy writers with no imaginations opt for "low-fantasy medieval" settings, and their definition of "realism" just seems to mean constant uses of slavery and violence against women as cheap worldbuilding. I grew up with TTRPGs and videogames like Hexen and they're the kind of surreal, dreamlike, heroic fantasy I miss.
I'm assuming you don't play videogames, but the tide is slowly, partially turning there. It'll seep through to other media in a couple years, stick with it.
Of course, but I think it's hard to deny that we're in a very low-mood phase of the cultural cycle right now - or, at least, that we have been since 9/11 and we're starting to inch out of it.
You're right about 9/11. It was like everything took a turn to the worse then.
Or to quote Roger Glover, bass player in the band Deep Purple who wrote at the bands web site after the tragic 9/11 events:
"We were living in paradise. We didn't know it then, but we do now."
So far I haven't seen much of any inching out of the doom-and-gloom but I live in hopeless Europe so.....
As for video games, I have some older sports games on my computer.
Yeah, it's definitely turning around now. The new Superman is a good call. I first noticed it with the Magnum PI reboot in 2018 - I'm not sure how popular or successful it was, but it was pleasingly self-knowingly silly and emotionally earnest and felt like a full-on throwback to 80s/90s television, to the point where it was hard to believe it even got greenlit in the late 2010s television landscape.
More recently we've had stuff like Baldur's Gate 3, SNW (which feels to me like it still has one foot in the Discovery era but is mostly leaning toward reconstruction rather than deconstruction), a lot of OSR RPG modules. It feels like the dam is about to burst but might take just a few more big commercial successes for studio execs to go "oh, okay, the mood has changed".
As I wrote above, so far I haven't seen anything. But let us hope for the best.
As for the Magnum PI reboot, that one was one of the many series I quit watching very quick. I couldn't stand the bad actors, no reseblance at all to the old series.
I'm not denying it; I lived and watch it, from societal and psychological aspects. What I am reaffirming is the cyclical nature of it and that this is hardly the worst period of human history.
No it isn't the worst. But definitely the most boring.
There is actual an article recently published about how today is better than the 90s.
Anyway, I feel like the current genre that's working on the whee today is horror. Think Sinners and Weapons. We got through science fiction mostly when the Expanse finished up. There is the new Alien show on HULU, but I really think science fiction is being paused. We do have some modern day westerns, but that genre feels like it going to be rested soon. And it's mostly streaming with the top one having been Yellowstone. However, we do have a Little House on the Prairie remake happening and the show Tracker is still on the air.
Not sure when science fiction will come back around again.
Today better than the 90's? Are you kidding.
Constant WWIII speculations and climate hysteria in media.
And definitely not when it comes to the entertainment area in which Star Trek exists.
As for westerns, I would really like to see some good western now.
I actually like Yellowstone, OK, it was a bit dark and gloomy here and there but I liked most of the characters and they were fighting for a good cause. I could identify with them because I was involved in a similar fight some years ago which unfortunately was lost. I do wish i ahd had some of Duttons people to back me up then.
Fortunately I have The Macahans and some older western series to watch on DVD.
As for horror, the current horror series or movies have too much of 2020's scenarios. Too much torture and gore.
For those convinced of the end of the world o doubt this will help but I agree and this article articulated it well.
Yes, daily headlines will occur over the bad things but that isn't the rest of the story. There is more to be optimistic about even with current challenges.
I wish i could agree with that.
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