Yikes
Yikes
Automation is not replacing factory workers though. It's barely replacing anyone, it's bs hype at best
Automaton has been replacing workers since the Spinning Jenny
Yet factory workers aren't being displaced en masse, or any jobs for that matter. It's just something capitalists and conservatives say to try to scare workers from striking for better wages and working conditions, which doesn't work anyway
Even worse, German show with a rich boy–poor girl theme. These were topics that occupied Turkish TV screens for years. Prime Video is currently full of these. Including me, many people watch these because there are beautiful girls and handsome boys.
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy, I bet her momma never told her why
yes.
Based on understanding from news and articles, a non-diversity and extremely canon-faithful work was planned to come. But Amazon wanted exactly the opposite. And still want to do something related to Stargate.
What does this even mean?
What I mean is, as far as I understand, the canceled show was going to be extremely canon-faithful and lacked diversity, but Amazon wanted the opposite.
This doesn't make any sense. They have women and minority characters, that is diversity. Not unless the showrunner was planning on going full Klan. If that's the case, then Amazon clearly made the right call by canceling the show.
What I mean is, it wouldn't be a show that prioritizes diversity like the current shows. At least, that's what I gathered from the news reports and articles written about it.
Doesn't make any sense. You simply drive advertisers and on-the-fence folks away. The whole point is to make money, minorities have a lot of spending power. Amazon knows this because they are also a retailer. They know who their customers are.
OK you're watching nonsense youtubers whining about "woke" things like diversity.
Modern TV story telling is very different to the time of SG1, and I'd be surprised if a continuation would be able to recapture the essence, but that's nothing to do with diversity whiners
Modern TV story telling is very different to the time of SG1, and I'd be surprised if a continuation would be able to recapture the essence, but that's nothing to do with diversity whiners
Actually, no.
Well, I can tell you one thing right now, a faithful continuation of Stargate sure wouldn't have a short-haired female with a man's name strut in during the first episode and give a speech about how her reproductive organs being on the inside instead of the outside didn't limit her as an officer. No one back in the '90s would even imagine that kind of woke garbage, but now we're drowning in it. Drowning! Look at Amazon's other shows! The elves are black, the space-miners are nonbinary and polyamorous, it's crazy!
Anyway, to stop being sarcastic for a moment (believe me, it's a struggle), it seems that Amazon got a reputation as the "woke" streamer from, you know, casting a black guy as an elf and showing that Orcs have babies and aren't carried down from Mount Doom by the stork, so every grifter and moron on the internet is asserting that the reason the Stargate continuation would've been suddenly stopped is because it wasn't "woke" (I really need you to imagine the biggest, most contemptuous finger-quotes there, like I'm dragging out the word for five seconds and I'm actually bending my whole arm rather than just my fingers) so they can drift off the larger fandom discontent and try to rope in some new suckers, even though a) it's the new guy's decision, who had nothing to do with making Middle-Earth multiethnic and The Expanse gay(er), and b) Stargate is a late-1990s franchise that, as I discussed above, carries with it a baseline level of "wokeness" which was uncontroversial for the time but nowadays is seen as nothing less than the prelude to The Turner Diaries.
Somebody needs to remake Independence Day so these nuts can finally have an anyrusim and spare us from their nonsense. A black guy and a jewish guy defeating the aliens? Two extremely brief montages anknowledging that there are places outside of the United States? Their heads would explode.
That was criticized back when it aired and the show itself made fun of it later; the director's cut of the pilot removes it entirely, IIRC. I know it's fashionable around here to score points by accusing nerds of hypocrisy (i.e. 'you complained when Burnham cried during battle, but you didn't complain when this older Trek character also cried; checkmate atheists!'), but come on.
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Yeah, it was bad line, but was it inconsistent with Carter's overall characterization? Did removing it alter the thrust of that scene introducing her as immediately being on a par with the boys from the movie? The final cut still has her deadpan "Yes" about pulling high-g bombing runs and Kowalski's wry suggestion that she goes by "Sam" for sexism reasons (though, IIRC, it does omit the chat about how she and Kowalski both had Major Matt Mason action-figures, which wouldn't have gone over well with the folks who argued Target no longer dividing toys into "boys" and "girls" sections would turn all the kids gay). In any episode in eleven seasons, Carter's still one packet of non-regulation hair-dye away from being the blue-hair-and-pronouns boogyperson that's destroying western civilization according to the best analyses of men who make selfie videos while driving their pickup trucks.
The bar for what's "woke" is on the floor nowadays. In the real-life military, General Carter would've been fired from running Homeworld Command a year and a half ago because the new Secretary of Defense decided it was flatly impossible for anyone who wasn't a straight white man to excel and reach a high rank without being unjustly promoted based on their demographics. Granted, the casting in the Stargate franchise is whiter than I'd like (it took three shows to have a PoC major character who wasn't an alien), but in terms of gender dynamics, they're hardly the revanchist retvrn-to-manhood wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am guns-and-boobs sci-fi that those people want them to be by making Stargate Four's cancellation a right-wing cause.
I feel it's worth pointing out that "woke" just means awake, aware of reality, hip to what's important. Anyone who defines being woke as a bad thing compels me to ask, what realities don't they want their followers to be aware of?
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