So, putting a gay couple on screen and just having it be a normal aspect of who they are is “blandly doing the cultural issues”?
Was putting Uhura, a black woman on the bridge of a starship on a show airing in the 1960s, also “blandly doing the cultural issues”?
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My comment is not about any specific lgbtq content but about the general attitude of the writing. The focus on drama over logic completely shallows out the allegory until it’s JUST a gay couple being contemporarily gay on screen.
It’s not bad to have contemporary representation, it’s just less inspired than what older ST did. Mind, I’ve heard later Picard seasons get better on the writing, and SNW I only stopped watching because I forgot more were coming, so I’m not trying to poo poo on anything except that which people largely already agree aren’t that great.
Like the first season of TNG. It’s uh… they had some decent episodes but boy were the bad ones something. lol Or the TNG movies for the most part. They’re just … different than the show. Entertaining, but that’s not my only criteria for ST, personally.
zaphod@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yeah. That’s my damn point.
Maybe there is no allegory.
Maybe it’s just a gay couple on screen.
Like Nichelle being just a black woman in an elevated position on screen.
Why is that such a problem for you?
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yea, I see what you mean. Actual representation and not tokenization. I wouldn’t accuse even STD or Picard of at least purposefully tokenizing. Although with the contemporary representation with a drama focus in the writing, it almost jumps the shark enough on the ST premise that the contemporary drama representation almost just feels tokenized, if that makes sense. I don’t think it’d be obvious with better writing, and I hear they get better later, so I could see people disagreeing out of pure entertainment value in the least.