Comment on Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions | Jessie Gender

• HetareKing@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  MAGA is an American thing, but there are plenty of people sharing their dumb opinions outside of the US.

  Also, MAGA nutters aren’t actually less intelligent than anyone else, just cowardly and resentful. They don’t want to think about what’s causing the problems in the world, because then they might have to reconsider parts of their worldview and that’s scary. So they want someone to just swoop in and fix the problems without fundamentally changing anything, or failing that, gives them the feeling they have permission from society to lash out against anything they consider “abnormal” and is therefore a potential cause of the problems. And so they’ll resent anyone who criticises them for that or tries to undermine that feeling of societal permission they want or already have.

  But not wanting to think about certain things is not the same as being unable to, and any intellectual capacity not spent on actually thinking about real problems and how to solve them can then be spent on how to create the impression that their opinion is dominant and therefore they’re not doing anything wrong.

  Anyway, the point is that while there are definitely legitimate criticisms to be had about the newer Star Trek shows, your metric isn’t very useful for demonstrating that. To begin with, why hide behind numbers at all? It just makes it look like you’re trying convince people that your criticisms carry more weight because the world agrees with you.

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  • Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    why hide behind numbers at all?

    Oh, okay let’s keep spending millions per episode so a few thousand people can enjoy the show. That’s absolutely how show business works.

    Numbers are critical and a key indicator of mainstream success.

    As I’ve stated multiple times already low viewer count combined with high review bombs indicates a disconnect between what’s being produced and what the audience wants.

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    • HetareKing@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …? We’re not the producers of the shows, how is that any of our concern? They’ve got plenty of bean counters at Paramount, if a show isn’t hitting their financial goals, they’ll either cancel or retool it. All we can do is watch the shows that get made and express and discuss our opinions about it, there’s no point in the fans engaging in bean-counting themselves.

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      • Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well I find it concerning because I really would love a new Star Trek that’s on the level of TNG, or Voyager, or DS9.

        Ultimately does it effect me? Nope, but it’s disappointing when producers feel that such a departure is a good thing or even necessary to stay relevant with the times; when in reality those changes make the entire show irrelevant.

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• StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am confident that their are overseas bot accounts intervening to magnify cultural and political conflicts in entertainment spaces.

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  • Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But there aren’t any equal amount of overseas bots pushing the other direction?

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    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not on this subject.

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