Star Trek: Discovery

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by neatoman

This is an FTM, so it's testosterone injections. Though the french maid outfit does raise some questions...

Jesus. I had it all backwards. Well OK. That's fine.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by neatoman

This is an FTM, so it's testosterone injections. Though the french maid outfit does raise some questions...

If it was only French Maid outfit that was rising questions, I would consider it to be a non-issue, though.

But seriously, those people think they are not mentally ill and others should treat them like normal healthy humans?

[neatoman]

I can't find a clip of it and I don't feel like combing through season 3 just to find it but I think the most bizarre scene of this entire show so far is in the eighth episode of season 3.

I was thinking about it today for some reason and was reminded that it just felt like alien wrote it. It's the scene where Adira, Culber and Stamets are in the same room and the two other characters keeps using the non-binary pronouns for Adira. The reason it's so weird is that in order to use these pronouns, they inadvertently keep referring to Adira in third person, despite obviously being in their presence. I'm pretty sure that is normally considered rude, right? And to top it off, they also refer to Adira as a child despite clearly being an adult (a young adult but still) and Adira is actually smiling about it. It is... So damn weird.

I guess it left an impression on me because I can remember it better than most scenes in this show, I just don't think it's for the reasons they intended.

[Andrew NDB]

Blegh.

https://trekmovie.com/2022/02/08/sta...-32nd-century/

And now the lady with the metal facial implant is "coming out as queer" because she wants to keep her job.

[Andrew NDB]

No surprise.

https://www.out.com/print/2022/2/11/...campaign=print

[Sumac]

I wonder how her sexual orientation helps her to tell better stories?

[rhetorical question]

[Andrew NDB]

Forgetting their own canon again:

[neatoman]

What's with all the whispering in this show? Do the directors just think that is inherently good acting regardless of context?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by neatoman

What's with all the whispering in this show? Do the directors just think that is inherently good acting regardless of context?

It's to make the explosions that more bombastic when they happen.

[Andrew NDB]

So in the season finale they actually had Stacey Abrams be revealed as the President of Earth.



You'll remember her from her campaign for governor of Georgia a few years ago that she lost but refused to concede, citing racism and voter suppression. A great big race hustler, almost as bad as Al Sharpton.

[Sumac]

Nope. This show is not a propaganda.
Not all.

[Andrew NDB]

So stunning:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnsta...la-and-parmaq/

[Sumac]

Is this seriously helping someone-anyone?

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Is this seriously helping someone-anyone?

No. Not in any meaningful way.

It's like patting someone on the head and telling them everything will be okay when they have a flesh eating virus that cause a horrible, painful death.

Unfortunately, many people love the head pats, and ignore the flesh eating virus.

Edit: Oh, maybe I will address this too since I found it in the previous page:

Originally Posted by Sumac

It seems you don't get it: yes, corporations care about money, but they also care about their social influence nowadays.

To them, they are putting their social influence above all, including profit. This is why when people chant "Go Woke, Go Broke" and say that going broke is what will make companies course correct or retcon this stuff, I tend to roll my eyes. They don't care about money, that much is clear. This is about agenda, and pushing their social influence. They also have billions of dollars, and don't give a crap about losing millions if it means they can push out their Feigbusters and Last Jedis. It's much bigger than pleasing fans for profit, they see this as pushing messages that will 'save the world'. Sounds nuts, right? Well, it is.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by superstaff

To them, they are putting their social influence above all, including profit. This is why when people chant "Go Woke, Go Broke" and say that going broke is what will make companies course correct or retcon this stuff, I tend to roll my eyes. They don't care about money, that much is clear. This is about agenda, and pushing their social influence. They also have billions of dollars, and don't give a crap about losing millions if it means they can push out their Feigbusters and Last Jedis. It's much bigger than pleasing fans for profit, they see this as pushing messages that will 'save the world'. Sounds nuts, right? Well, it is.

Which I don't get: does it mean that everyone in the company support this ****? Like all of the top brass?

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Which I don't get: does it mean that everyone in the company support this ****? Like all of the top brass?

Yes.

A lot of people can't believe it when I say that, but trust me. I've had a lot of run-ins with SJW extremists (and tbh this applies to most/all extremists in general). There's an old saying in the hispanic community that roughly translates to, "they'd blind themselves if it meant they could also blind their enemy". They will continue to funnel their money away, and lose it, but it won't matter because their political ideology/rhetoric will be out there, and gathering/corrupting more potential supporters.

[Leo656]

I mean, IDW has let some of their most lucrative licenses slip away and are clearly fine with going under completely if that's the consequence of hitching themselves to the "Woke Bandwagon".

So yeah, it can't just be about making money because a lot of companies have proven they're fine with losing money if it means they get to be on "The Right Side Of History".

On the other hand, though, a LOT of corporations do only hitch themselves to said Woke Bandwagon because it's "trendy" and they see money in it. What kills me is, some people really believe that a company that sells razors or deodorant has an "ideology" or a social conscience. It's marketing, nothing more.

Stephanie McMahon got caught Tweeting a few years ago, "Philanthropy is the future of Marketing. It's how brands are going to win." That was prescient. Pretending to care a ton about things you really don't care about at all can indeed generate some more revenue from gullible rubes. It just typically doesn't last very long because said rubes are quickly on to The Next Thing.

All that hubbub about "The Last Jedi", but those people were not real Star Wars fans. They didn't stick around, they jumped on because they liked engaging the "salty fanboy tears" crap. Then when the flame wars died off they were finished with their New Favorite Thing and never watched Star Wars again. That's how those people operate. So companies that cater to them are inevitably shocked to find out just how truly fickle they are, and why it makes no sense to pander to them.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Leo656

All that hubbub about "The Last Jedi", but those people were not real Star Wars fans. They didn't stick around, they jumped on because they liked engaging the "salty fanboy tears" crap. Then when the flame wars died off they were finished with their New Favorite Thing and never watched Star Wars again. That's how those people operate.

You are giving those people too much credit man. They never liked the I.P.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by superstaff

Yes.

A lot of people can't believe it when I say that, but trust me. I've had a lot of run-ins with SJW extremists (and tbh this applies to most/all extremists in general). There's an old saying in the hispanic community that roughly translates to, "they'd blind themselves if it meant they could also blind their enemy". They will continue to funnel their money away, and lose it, but it won't matter because their political ideology/rhetoric will be out there, and gathering/corrupting more potential supporters.

This is incredibly disturbing, if it is indeed the case.

Western world has been saved from religions and from commies, only to fall into grasp of quasi-religious quasi-communists, which are basically a combination of the worst traits from both ideologies.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IMJ

You are giving those people too much credit man. They never liked the I.P.

I was pretty sure that's what I said.