ShranTheWaterPoloFan

@ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The brief career of lemmy shit posting mod space weed kid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can think of no punishment more severe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused about what you want.

  Mods literally got replaced by reddit because they refused to capitulate.

  I’m not a fan of reddits choices, but if I was deeply involved in a community I’d consider staying to be part of that community still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" & 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It reminds me of the future Borg from Voyager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" & 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that episode.

  And the moral of “I can get stuff just by asking for it!” Is a real lesson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with their politics, I just feel that plot took a hit to allow them to soapbox more. Aliens lost what made them alien and became humans with make up.

  My issue isn’t the message, to me it felt like the lecturing of DISCO with fart jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was really disappointed with the most recent series of Orville. I feel they moved from social commentary to being preachy and smug.

  The biggest example of this is the time travel episode in season 3. You have someone who has established a life and has kids and real character growth, who wants to be able to live the life they established after being abandoned for 20 years. On the other hand you have Seth McFarland saying that it’s bad. There isn’t any real discussion of what right is, it’s just McFarland saying that he’s right and then circumventing any resistance. It ends with McFarland being smug he did the right thing and having no self reflection on the damage he did.

  To be clear, I’m all about social commentary in my sci-fi but I feel like anything interesting is diluted to make it a closer parallel to earth. The Moclans went from a unique all male species, to having a rare minority that allowed for discussion of trans rights, to in season 3 being 50-50 split and a tired gender war trope.

  I think the Orville has gotten lazy and moved further and further away from having interesting plots to talk about big ideas and moved more towards character driven drama and lazy hamfisted commentary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “the soulless agents of orthodoxy!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Trek Series Ranked by Fans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reviews have gotten stupid.

  Let’s look at DISCO. Users put it at 37%. That’s about as bad as “Cop Out,” “Howard the duck”, “the adventures of sharkboy and lavagirl” and something called “four kids and it.”

  I’m not a fan of DISCO, it takes itself too seriously, solves most problems with violence, has no chemistry between crew members and refuses to spend time developing most characters. That being said, it sure as heck is a lot better than “Howard the duck”.

  Let’s look at a couple audience reviews to see where the hate is coming from (actual quotes from IMDB user reviews)- “Should have been called Star Woke” “Too busy being woke” “If a character is a straight white man they are evil”

  Oh no. It’s bigotry.

  User reviews have become bombarded by conservatives pushing an agenda. An agenda that says that any representation is harmful and offensive. It’s impossible to gain real insight on user experiences through online polls because of a loud minority crying about seeing a black/queer/Asian/trans/educated/disabled person.

  It makes it hard to criticize shows due to the “anti-woke” offering you a robe when you say something bad about a show with a woman.