“Not at all, unless you’re saying the critical opinion of those tens of millions of people is wrong?

Not everyone has tons of time to kill. Personally I have at most a couple hours each evening to relax. I’m not going to waste them on Mute if all the critics say it’s trash.

The critics aren’t actually wrong, it’s just that tons of people have low standards and/or poor taste when it comes to sci-fi. Mute sucks, Altered Carbon sucks, most of the Marvel Netflix shows suck. What’s remarkable is that they all suck for very similar reasons.

Wow, you’re ridiculous. :)

It wasn’t a home run, but I don’t think the premiere of Six Feet Under (or even the first four episodes) revealed what the series would become either. And that ended up being one of my favorite shows. I’ll give this a chance and ignore the impatient critics for now.

I noticed my notifications seven days later, dumbass.

So again you just completely sweep aside the existence of the producers who were POCs, and make a baseless claim that the show would celebrate the Confederacy. Interesting. It’s almost like you’re not interested in reasonable discussion.

You’re not even trying to be reasonable about this. A concept is not a story. We know what their concept was. We have no idea what they were trying to do with it, or what kind of social commentary would have resulted.

That minor point of terminology doesn’t negate my point in any way. Counterfactual or alternate histories do not necessarily celebrate the bad guys. They explore what could have happened if events transpired differently. Man in the High Castle is one example, but there are thousands of great works in this genre. It…

Rian Johnson did a string of low-budget sci-fi hits before Disney even looked at him. J.J. Abrams didn’t start from the top either. As I said, Disney will look at talented and proven genre directors once they’ve made a name for themselves. Often it’s a little labor of love like Looper that gets some attention.

“The very idea of doing a show that shows the Confederacy winning is pro-Confederacy.”

Lucas should have come up with the idea for Star Wars but then stepped back so a trans WOC could direct. Damn you, George Lucas.

And because audiences reward that with money.

Hollywood is an industry and it cares solely about making money. Disney chooses Star Wars directors based on obvious criteria: previous success writing and directing geeky sci-fi series. I assure you that Kathleen Kennedy doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the color of the director’s skin or whether (s)he has a penis or…

Just sickening. Equally sickening: 100% of directors of Mario games have been Japanese men. Where’s the diversity Nintendo??

I don’t think they planned to make a pro-Confederate show, along with their POC co-creators...The backlash to that was so weirdly uninformed and unreasonable.

It’s because their “prior level” of storytelling competency was dependent on adapting some excellent source material. Without it they had no idea how to string the plot beats together or even write decent dialogue.

My god this show is tedious. It suffers from the same issues as most Netflix series: bad pacing, bad editing, bad dialogue. The visuals are beautiful but that’s not enough.

Yeah I talked to several people who claimed to dislike TLJ because of “plot holes” and “changes to the mythos”, but whenever I really pushed them to elaborate, they would complain about: “the purple-haired lady”, the “Asian girl”, the Canto Bight sequence (because it “pushed a left-wing narrative”) etc. In other words…

I’m a Gay (TM) and I agree. I mean it’s only insulting if you think sucking fat cocks is somehow degrading or shameful, which is itself homophobia? Would a straight guy get insulted if I said “Go eat a pussy, you’d probably like it”?