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News Season 2 will be the last (show cancelled)

It’s ok. He just needed to get in his faux concern.

Well yes ... maybe I godwinned the argument, but I really think the whole point of people beating the "wokeness" horse is that they want to communicate people who would love to hate-rant against blacks, queer people or even women, but don't dare to because it's "politically incorrect", that it's perfectly fine again to express these very feelings, as long as they just use the word "woke" instead of, say, the n-word or f-word and so on.
 
People use "woke" to mean an incredibly wide array of things; sometimes it literally is just misogynists/racists having meltdowns over trivial shit, but I think a lot of people at this point use it to mean a specific tone and style (which I'd argue does identifiably exist, though whether or not SFA qualifies as having it is another matter).

It's the same as the term "politically correct" a couple decades ago where a lot of people just use it as lazy shorthand to mean "something that feels alienating and hectoring in a smug way".
 
People use "woke" to mean an incredibly wide array of things; sometimes it literally is just misogynists/racists having meltdowns over trivial shit, but I think a lot of people at this point use it to mean a specific tone and style (which I'd argue does identifiably exist, though whether or not SFA qualifies as having it is another matter).

It's the same as the term "politically correct" a couple decades ago where a lot of people just use it as lazy shorthand to mean "something that feels alienating and hectoring in a smug way".

I'd definitely agree that some people go too far and/or are annoying, smug and obnoxious with their efforts to promote social justice or identity, but the usual suspects online, the grifters I was talking about, apparently get their pants in a twist already when a black woman just crosses the screen in a scene ... or so it feels to me.

Maybe it's a reason why the anti-"wokeness" argument is so powerful ... non-racist people feel it only means the annoying examples that go too far, while real racists understand it as condemning everything anyhow "black".
 
Well yes ...
Around here "foul play" has a certain connotation, and it usually means someone like Angela Lansbury or Columbo is about to get involved. I didn't know of the usage overseas. We do have "foul ball", though.
 
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I didn't think it would. :(

Neither did I. It just wasn't making money. Paramount has debt and stockholders. There's no way they could justify keeping the show around for such a small audience. I figure it this way. We may get something better. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes. Hopefully.
 
it feels like the end of an era. SFA sets are being torn down, and so are SNW sets. So Year One is unlikely too.

So for the 60th anniversary year, we have....nothing at all in production. Why am i not surprised, from Paramount? They have no money for trek but have endless cash for a hundred Yellowstone spin offs
 
it feels like the end of an era. SFA sets are being torn down, and so are SNW sets. So Year One is unlikely too.

So for the 60th anniversary year, we have....nothing at all in production. Why am i not surprised, from Paramount? They have no money for trek but have endless cash for a hundred Yellowstone spin offs

No. The link only shows the SFA sets being taken down not the SNW sets.
 
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Oh snap. Thats shocking. Well I guess Star Trek Year One didn't pass muster with the paramount brass. Well all we have left to hope for is the Archer show and I suspect that won't get green lit either.
 
There was sadly just no way any of the currently pitched shows would ever be made. The only possibly salvation Academy had would have been if they wanted to avoid having a content vacuum but any show(s) currently running would have gotten the axe when Kurzman's contracts expired no matter what it would have been. Academy's divisive reception just gave them an easier story other than outright stating they were cleaning house to prepare for a reboot.
 
Oh well. The Star Treks, Star Wars, Jurassic Parks etc have been so oversaturated that maybe it's time for them all to just end. We have had 50 years of "blockbuster" films and Franchises since Jaws. It was a good run. The film and tv industry is changing so fast with the rest of the world. There is a big shift right now. Everything has its time in the sun and I think the sun is setting on a lot of this stuff and I don't ever see it getting that bright ever again. BRING ON THE NEW STUFF HOLLYWOOD forget this legacy franchise nonsense...... 😂
 
BRING ON THE NEW STUFF HOLLYWOOD forget this legacy franchise nonsense...... 😂
If only! I wonder why genre fiction seems so much harder to get off the ground nowadays - if you compare the number of popular/enduring franchises that came out from 1985 - 2000 and then 2010 - 2025, it's a night and day difference.

People often say "oh it's about distribution and reach since everything's so fragmented nowadays", but I'm not sure that fully holds up.
 
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