Thing is you can view this as a continuation of what is now a fairly ingrained woman-power=queer trope though. We’ve got this, Steven Universe, Xena, Batwoman, Wonder Woman DCEU eludes to it, Valkerie, CWVerse, etc.

Eh, I’m skeptical. The problem with Kylo Ren and Catra comparisons is we’re shown much more of Catra being something other than a raging man-child. A lot of care was put into that character, where as Kylo (as many noted at the time) came off as a fairly one-note strawman of toxic masculinity.

If the Democrats can actually barnstorm an election I think “what he’ll veto” is a far smaller list than people think.

The purpose most moderates have, ISN’T to remove progressive policy items. It’s to field candidates in purple areas that have a chance of winning. You simply accept that you stand a better chance of…

Ungreying you more than anything, but yes I am fully aware.  What you do and how you do it are two different things.  As a plot point could it have worked?  Maybe.  Did it?  For many, no.

That is certainly one way to look at the Republican party waiting for Bernie to lose steam before having their political apparatus take over. Last Sunday was pretty much a bot extraveganza and the Reade allegations were everywhere.

YMMV. For a substantial subset of people either because they didn’t like the direction or because the character jump was too extreme given what was on screen, it really wasn’t. And should the same thing happen to Ahsoka, you’ll see a similar reaction.

It’s easier to take a character you’ve never known and gloss over…

Can’t the comics industry move towards a more Manga-ish/bookish model? People keep asking why but the fundamental problem is the same for a lot of industries.

Given what happened to Luke, I think he has good reason to be protective. Original creators tend to be less apt to ask “what if X happened” with their own creations. It’s why they sometimes get stale. But at the same time, it protects a franchise from fracturing and doesn’t play fast and loose with audience sentiment.

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It’s not over.  But people who are going to call themselves Progressives are directly at a decision point.  I’m growing tired  (although I won’t stop) of supporting those causes while they insist on shooting themselves in their own feet and parrot RNC strategies out loud and without irony.  You either care about these…

In this day and age I tend to always go with a little of column A and a little of column B. Yes, there are authentic Kamala voters like authentic Sanders voters who have a seething hatred for Biden. However, whatever number actually exists of them, they are greatly amplified by external actors that see liberal…

As someone who loves both Star Trek TNG and Stargate, I don’t blame anyone for not getting into them (although I do blame them if they follow that up with “they need to change X” to make it relevant.)

Get ready for the think pieces if Trump gets reelected at how this is actually the fault of Biden, moderates, and white women.

Maybe for Democrats. The Republicans elected 2 Bush’s and neither of them are particularly interesting. Maybe I should amend Democrats to liberal/progressives right now since there seems to be some sort of existential crisis going on right now with the former moniker.

Like parties, it just requires rethinking. I rig up a camera and play remotely with people but there’s a trick to that.

That’s rather disingenuous as the primary reason he purchased the rights was so the distributor he just sold it to wouldn’t lose money having acquired it just before the news broke and it was very likely they couldn’t find buyers.

So this is pretty much posting on a dead topic now, but something to consider is the type of criticism you describe is what has entirely become impossible largely due to the nature of how blog criticism has turned out.

Is it possible that the Science Fiction community has simply gotten too cynical for Trek?

‘Eh, Modern Trek is fine as long as we don’t pretend it’s the same.

Yep. I suspect Warren’s problem more than anything is Sanders. I don’t mean that as a dig on Sanders, but a lot of her positions are his positions only she’s put more thought into them. Sanders complained last cycle because he had no brand and eventually built one.

Obama was always a centrist. His supposedly liberal bona fides were largely based on his distaste for the wars of Bush and his promise to draw down. Hope was defninitely his message as was Health Care just like Clinton before him. “Hope” and “change” are bargain basement phrasing. I won’t dig on people for believing…