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I've had lifelong ADHD, so as a kid Star Trek never really had a chance to grab my attention because haha lightsaber go zhoom zhoom flash chop. I think it has way more interesting ideas, while Star Wars is essentially "How can we make these incredibly simplistic themes as fun to watch as possible?"
It's definitely more for babies now than it's ever been, but yeah that's not saying much. Those pointless merchandising penguin owls in Last Jedi finally killed my interest in the series.
Haha the prequels are just fun for me cause I was a kid when they came out, and now they're fun to watch drunk. The merchandising thing was there even in the originals, but at least back then they tried to justify it within the story. Yeah, the Ewok plot is stupid, but it plays a vital role in moving the story forward. Comparing that to the sequels, it's become completely empty. The cute things are there to sell toys, and ONLY to sell toys. It's a symptom of what Cushbomb talked about, how everything not absolutely vital to the running of the profit machine (and even some things that are) is itself consumed for profit.
In-plot reasons for these stupid creatures to be here? Sorry, not in the budget, buy our shit.
the only good star wars merch is the lightsabers (the plain ones, not the ones with fancy lights), the lego up until like 2007 and lego star wars. no i'm not biased by my childhood nostalgia, the is objective reality
Witcher has the white supremacist fandom that thinks medieval Europe was a white ethnostate.
The Lucifer fandom got them to Netflix and they don't seem like psycopaths, so my vote's for them.
Yeah lol. It likely didn't help that there wasn't a PoC until the DLC Hearts of Stone.
Any show that's passionate enough to save their show from being cancelled gets a win in my book. Like that is literal praxis that is genuinely saving the jobs of creatives.
See also: The Expanse, Community
I could listen to Mike and international superstar Rich Evans talk about Star Trek for hours. Especially if Jay is also in the room and forced to listen as well.
I've been playing with this idea of sampling a ton of Rich's laughter from across all their videos and making a beat using them. It'd be a lot of leg work but I think it could actually work lol.
The star trek fandom also essentially invented gay fanfiction as a contemporary phenomenon back in the late 70s, which is pretty neat. Leads eventually to the creation of the organisation for transformative works.
Star Trek is good for your soul. It's fully automatic luxury space communism. Unfortunately it's not as gay as it could be, but The Next Generation ran from '87 to '94, so it's somewhat understandable.
The worst. Two and a half men or Big Bang Theory. I can’t think of a TV Show or movie that has a good fanbase.
Two and half men is like Friends, but for sexists. And Big Bang Theory is all the worst kind of nerds.
