"they believe Star Fleet's best and brightest would behave like teenagers on a field trip." This is PRECISELY why I did NOT like the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies!

James Doohan losing a finger at the D-Day invasion as part of the Canadian Army. These were men’s men. *Spelling corrected - autocorrect thought it knew English better than I

@@AvengerII Abrams and Alex Kurtzman are in an insane competition to see which can produce the worse product - and they have both "won".

What a great summary of the diversion in mindset to modern TV writers. I'm going to quote you in a future article in a niche online publication Joe Stoffa.

My problem with modern Trek isn't necessarily the disappearance of masculinity (though the emasculation of most male characters is a problem, I'd agree)...it's twofold: (1) the writers seem to have forgotten how to write episodes with moral ambiguity, and (2) They seem obsessed with tearing down iconic characters. When you watch episodes of Star Trek from the '80s and '90s, they still presented two sides. You could see the evil characters' motivations. Even if the episode eventually picked aside and Captain Picard or Captain Sisko explained why at the end (more Picard than Sisko, since Sisko was more willing to exist in the grey areas), You as a viewer were still given The full picture of the issue being explored in the episode. Now, that seems to have disappeared. Now we have "This is bad, 100% bad and shame on anyone who thinks this way and we must triumph. Throw in a few men looking like buffoons while the women solve all the problems, and that's your episode. Second, look what they're doing to Captain Picard in the new show. When this show was announced, over and over again they said that it was happening because his positivity was needed in today's world. But where is the positivity in the show? The first season was all about tearing him down. Tearing down this mythical Starfleet character. More often than not, you had women shouting at him or belittling him or telling him that he didn't understand something or other because he was a man, or that he was out of touch. "Lol, what do you know old man?" was the gist of 90% of the conversations. He wasn't allowed to be positive. Instead, we as a viewer were treated to his entire worldview being torn down along with him. We see him question himself repeatedly. That never would have happened before. And then at the end of course, they literally remake him as something new. I know that the video posits that it's millennials that do this, but at least in season one of Picard, the showrunner was not a millennial. The director of several the episodes was, but the writers were not. And yet they still felt this was a good idea. That's why I am thankful for KZfaq channels that show old Trek and new Trek side by side to show everyone the difference. How horrible it's gotten.

True. That made me laugh, thanks Michael!

LOL good one

Also non primary characters odds of survival diminish.

*unless you're a Redshirt ))

-"My God Bones... what have I done?" -"What you had to do. What you always do: Turn death into a fighting chance to live..."

Too subtle for the moron brigade it would appear.

Excellent observation. The kiddies that are being conditioned by (dis) educators today can’t figure anything out with it being spoon fed…

The Critical Drinker made a video on that subject. “Why Modern Movies Suck- They’re written by children”

You described perfectly the problem with modern writing. I think this is highlighted by the manner to which novels always seem to produce the most believable characters in TV or film. Can you imagine the last 2 seasons of Game of thrones being as universally disliked as they are, had the writers not been given the opportunity to make it up the last missing books.

A great example of the use of subtext in the original Star Trek is in the Season 2 episode Amok Time. Subtext: Vulcans were once such an emotional people they almost wiped themselves out in nuclear wars. It took hundreds of years before the philosophy of Surak, who taught pacifism and logic based on suppression of all strong emotions, was adopted and brought widespread peace to their society. Modern Vulcan view those who show emotions in public the way Bible thumpers view Satan worshippers. Chief among these strong emotions was a monstrous libido, which even the Surak philosophy cannot wholly suppress, and attempts to do so can last only seven years before driving Vulcans into a killing frenzy. Spock, science officer aboard the Enterprise, hoped that he would be spared the embarrassment of this _pon farr_ state, but the symptoms are growing too pronounced to ignore. Because the fugue state is so shameful, no one outside Vulcan is even aware of its existence. All Captain Kirk knows is that Spock’s behavior is becoming increasingly erratic. Text: Captain, I respectfully request shore leave on my home planet. Well, Spock, I’m afraid that won’t be possible anytime soon. We’ve been ordered to the Altair system, to show the flag during the peace negotiations. But the shore leave facilities at Altair are perfectly fine, so you can- No, Captain, it must be on Vulcan! No other planet is possible! Spock! Is there something wrong? I have made my request! All I require of you is an answer, yes or no! The explication of this into J. J. Abrams-whining is left as an exercise for the student.

Same

Same

As a sane gen z i can confirm he is correct.

Same.

Q: How many of your woke Millennial screenwriter peers in Hollywood have a divorced, absent and/or abusive father? Is it.... A. All of them. B. All of them. C. All of them. or D. So nearly all of them that you might as well say, "ALL OF THEM!!"

Or as smart, calm and logical as Spock, the other casualty of "wokeness". F*** Jar Jar Abrams

Captain Kirk was a ladies man. He didn't abuse women. They liked him. Often it was the women who were "sexually assertive" and made the first move on the original Star Trek. Watch some of the old shows and see.

@@hellojimperry I concur...

@@robinlillian9471 When a woman wants a certain kind of man, that's it. Never underestimate a woman who has a plan to get a man.

and the woke HATE THAT

Glad someone else caught this! The "ladies man" Kirk is more of a fan joke that's evolved into an accepted truth that doesn't actually mesh with the facts of the series.

Well said. And spot on. This is yet another example of wokesters trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. They did the same thing with James Bond, with the recent director even going so far as saying that Bond was guilty of sexual assault. Yet when one understands the context, Bond was a spy. And he was trained to use whatever means necessary to achieve his objective and to protect his life. It is literally in the 'license to kill' label.

Exactly. Another example would be his assumed overuse of the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," when, in fact, he never said it even once.

Thank you. I came here to say this but you said it better than I could have done. I'd also add that his reputation for breaking the rules is also undeserved. He was meticulous in following regulation except in situations where he had to make a moral judgement which is understandable when one remembers that the Enterprise is on a 5 year mission in deep space. People always have to remember that it's 'Hornblower in space' and that, as was the case in the Age of Sail, the captain of a ship far from home is god. He *is* Starfleet and he must make the calls as best he can with his first concern always to be the safety and welfare of his crew.

@@chrislyne377 However....I would say that breaking the rules under reasonable circumstances, under a moral judgment, etc does seem realistic to still get a reputation for it by bureaucracy, so perhaps that is still somewhat fitting nonetheless!

There was even the episode were he broke the Prime Directive to arm the one side of the war on the low tech planet to protect them from the side sponsored by the Klingons.

@@Flackon Nazis might think that. But a lot of regular, unassuming, non-Nazi people would disagree that this is where Luke's dramatic arc was headed at all, especially as many had already seen the arc play out in a different way in the old novels and that was also solid.

@@Flackon "Nazis shit on Last Jedi (because of breaking with expectations)"". "People who don't like Last Jedi are Nazis" that's what you're saying since you're not differentiating.At least if people complain about the whole "Subverting expectations for the sake of subverting expectations" even when it makes for a poorer story. Piss off. Last Jedi is a confused mess with no actual coherence. And HELL TO THE FUCK NO it's NOT the most natural way possible. You say that the person who thought that Darth Vader could be saved EVEN JUST CONTEMPLATING his NEPHEW could fall to the dark side AND THEREFORE HE SHOULD MURDER HIM is the "most natural possible way"?

Nazi is a very heavy word. Nazi dehumanize their opponent so that they could do terrible things to other fellow humans and even to their own civilian people who are questioning their actions. And they take pride in what they did since they believe they are superior. But it only feeds to grand delusion of the group. I think it is also the same to the imperial japanese back then when the samurai lost in their civil war, the samurai families sent their children to military school since they could no longer enjoy their samurai previleges. The nostalgia and desire get back in power spreads and fester among the military ranks. Even before WW2 started they have a democratic process. But it was useless since the military won't listen and intimidate opposition through assassination. The politicians cower to the military might They couldn't control. They invade and exploit resources from other nations to feed their military. And aim to unify Asia under their version banner of holy crusade of expansion. You have to ask yourself who currently has large amount of concentration camps and detain people simply because of their ethnicity and religion for brainwashing cultural assimilation. Imprison and intimidate dissent with forced live confession in national tv because of a "wrong think crime". I think those are the modern version of Nazi.

@@smartalec2001 If you disagree that it follows from his character, it just means you haven't been paying attention. There's nothing wrong with the way Luke was handled in TLJ

Social media has a lot to answer for too, giving everyone a platform to spout their nonsense

​@@GedH-316 It goes back further than the 2000's, but social media multiplied the stupidity. I don't know if Jane Fonda was the first "activist" celebrity, but she was the first to be really fucking annoying (and possibly treasonous) about it.

Way to tell everyone you've never watched Star Trek without saying you've never watched Star Trek.

Hay if we did we wouldn't watch anything Since most Hollywood are . Well peddo

It's actually very rare for me to know those things. Of course, I don't get on twitter and I stay away from tabloids. So most of the things that celebrities say misses me.

I'm an engineer. Do know how many engineers list Scotty as at least one influence for their career choice? (For me also my dad, and Apollo XI)

DIVERSITY CASTING AND GENDER SWAPPING.

Bend over which way?

It's sad to see this message being handed to us that we can only relate to those who look like us. Representation is important yet there is a difference from that and tokenization. Write a good character and almost anyone can relate to them. Write a character solely to mark off a box and you get nothing.

Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner, nice touch at the end with salute. Be seeing you 07.

@@stephw1702 exactly. I grew up in the 90s and guess what. I absolutely related to Mulan despite the fact that I'm a white dude because she was a well written character.

I have an inkling as to which south east asian country ur from.

The West is being consumed with self-hate, specifically anything of "white identity". I quote that because among woke circles, they like to tout that there is no such thing as "whiteness", that it's a made up term by racists or whatever. Yet, when it comes time to attack or criticize anything remotely of western and European identity, suddenly that "whiteness" exists and is a monolithic identity for all white people. I just hate all this woke crap. I've never watched anything Asian-made that consisted of entirely Asian actors, culture, and history, and thought to myself "I can't get into this, there are just too many Asians in this, it needs more white people in it for diversity". Yet that's exactly what they do here, take Lord of the Rings for example. White = bad. Diversity is their new religion and whiteness = their original sin.

I actually love of lot of costume drama histories coming out of Asia, lately. When I had more money I'd search for titles and find out something about them, usually a trailer. Truly enjoy them. Sometimes the culture and motivations confuse me, but the story telling was always deep..characters, interesting. I like the 'soft magic' of the taoist concept of the Chi and the Tao.

@@AngryToasterOven The contradictions in their arguments are incredible. My only explanation is that at some point during their sociology courses they get taken to a room where someone spends an afternoon randomly applying patch cables to their brains.

@@AngryToasterOven I just finished All of Us Are Dead, a Korean zombie series, and before that another Korean series called Signal a supernatural tinged crime drama, and never once did I think, "Oh I can't watch this since there's no white people in it." Or "I hate this because there's no one in it who looks EXACTLY like me." Yes some of it did make me squirm a bit but I never hated it, it was just a different country with different cultures and traditions to my own. That was what made it so compelling.

I wanted to marry Kirk and I was only 8 when I first laid my eyes on him. I looked for someone who was brave, funny and a real man like him but sadly I never found anyone that could match him so I never married anyone. I still think Kirk was the best guy ever:)

No. You couldn't be more wrong.

They are vastly different takes on command. I like both. It would have been a terrible mistake for Stewart to simply imitate Shatner's Kirk. Of course, the best take on command ( IMO) in the Trek canon is still Avery Brooks delivery as Capt. Benjamin Sisko.

@@frederickrose3967 Patrick Stewart as a person is a funny, charming man. Patrick Stewart as an actor shows his Shakespearean stage experience: he's stiff on the screen. The guy's a stage actor. Avery Brooks was awesome. Loved him as "Hawk" in the "Spenser" tv show.

How old are you Daniel? You sound like you are older than me and I am over 60.

I always assumed Kirk was like JFK, but a captain of a battle cruiser instead of a PT boat. Like JFK, Kirk would f*ck anything in a dress.

90s Piccard was great. 2020s Piccard sucks.

Urban was the only one who actually seemed to know the character he was playing. Everyone else was playing a generic "type".

@@stevenscott2136 Probably also one of the few there who was also a fan of the original series.

The next letter in the Rainbow Coalition is P. We all know it.

@@TheControlBlue 100%. And today they got a pedophile enabler on the Supreme Court.

@@marcwright4790 truly a Dire day for the Republic...

@@TheControlBlue Re: "the next letter" Damned straight. No pun intended.

@@TheControlBlue That is completely off base.

In the current culture your leaders have to be nice, polite, soft spoken and respectful - a good economy, border security and a strong influence on international affairs are secondary.

Star Trek has been pretty bang on the nose with its moralizing from time to time.

Nowhere was that more perfectly illustrated than in "The Enemy Within", a brilliant episode that occurred so early in the series. And a pretty bold statement to say some of those "negative" qualities are what made him a great leader.

Good point. I believe the subtle messages are more effective than the beat the audience over the head with it message.

@@Lakrimoz You kidding? The sort of people behind this stuff don't even want borders.

Thanks for your comment.

Thank YOU sir for the insightful videos. Please keep up the good work.

Same with me brother, my kids haven't seen any of the remakes. Mulan, Ghostbusters etc. Well....we did watch the newest Ghostbusters with the child cast and enjoyed it. But not that piffle that came out b4 it.

I love the prequels primarily because of the memes tbh.

If you wish to see good writing try some of the recent anime classics. The sky Crawlers is a classic example of less dialog can mean more story. Ergo Proxy is a TV-series example of this, both are sci-fi and rather good.

Indeed :)

Well said

I agree but i love Picard & have a passing affection for kirk

@All Prophit Keep in mind that Kirk barely budged with the ladies in Season 1. I think it was something like 3 women he was involved with. 1 was an old flame, 1 was the insane daughter of a mass murderer he was leading on, and 1 he fell in love with. Kirk was hardly the ladies man of legend---at least, through the first season.

Yes, so true, you know great writing, when you can have a scene were almost nothing is happening, but you can't pull your eyes away from the screen. That is good writing.

I can always date a book by the way they have characters interact. They have an execrable tendency to think everyone talks the way they talk, regardless of time-period

in the eighties I thought the eighties marketing was awful. Hollywood thinks that's what defined the decade.

It's the nature of the beast, and is the same in (almost everything). When you watch any period drama, I always note, all the cars, bikes are immaculate and shiny and new, as if they've just been hired somewhere, but reflect, in real life there would have been older vehicles from previous generations, rusty dirty and knackered, still driving around. Clive James once commented, the hack writer has a 17th Century shepherd immaculately kitted out in absolutely authentic dung caked dress, blithely saying, "no way".

Stranger Things is a great example (and I love the show). ANY kid who swore around his parents the way those kids did would have been beaten senseless. 80's kids swore around each other, but knew from hard won experience to keep their mouths shut when adults were around.

It's not a very popular opinion, but this has always been my problem with "That '70s Show". It's always felt like a late '90s/early '00s take on how the '70s went down. "The Wedding Singer", same thing, trying to target the '80s, but it didn't feel anything like the '80s; and it was only +8 years in the rearview mirror by that point! These shows go for the obvious pop culture articles/references, but they never capture that same feeling; and they ALWAYS get the timeline of when things came out wrong.

What? Darth Vader was on the side of law and order. Long live the Empire.

@@user-pg3pe4gx4p Flush the empire😄

Let's Go Brandon, could apply to Darth Vader, because he too is a powerful broken corrupted fool of the Dark side. (So close to our Stolen Elected Commander in Corruption) Except in the movie we know Darth Vader represented established corrupted law and order of the Right while the Princess was the small oppressed Royalty progressives symbolically on the side of good, but with little power. Luke also represented the youthful coming of age hero that was once fodder for a generation or two in this country before Woke broke reality.

@@dilbertjunkmail Brandon is a joke. Darth Vader wasn't.

George Lucas got that from Joseph Campbell. J.J Abrams went to Sarah Lawrence College. How could he be expected to know anything about Joseph Campbell?

"I heard you struck my son." "Yes sir I did." "-and may I ask why?" "Yeah, well, 'cause he stole John Wick's car sir, and uh, killed his dog." "Oh..."

@@takatamiyagawa5688 Exactly! As Said in the video, you leave it to a good actor to give the single word all the gravitas it needs with tone, facial expression and body language.

Yes, that is absolutely my favorite part of John Wick: A single word; "oh." It explains everything that follows.

Excellent example!

Compare Tom Baker era Doctor Who to the modern Doctor Who. Classic Doctor Who had cheap effects and costumes -- so it was focused on the people and their stories.

As I've often heard it said, the best visual effects are the ones where the audience doesn't notice that that are, indeed, visual effects.

@@lastguyminn2324 You mean like the visual effects in radio?

Back when video rental stores were still a thing, there was a simple rule for choosing sci-fi or fantasy films from the shelves. If the blurb on the back of the box started out with "Fantastic special effects highlight this story of...", just stop reading and put the box back on the shelf and move on.

@@CptDunsel Not exactly. I'm talking about things like matte painting composites that are so realistic that the average viewer just thinks they are looking at a true long shot. Or like the scenes from Forest Gump where Gary Sinese's legs are removed, and the combination of his acting and the excellent special effects leaves the audience believing what they are seeing despite knowing the actor still has his legs.

Insightful response. It is possible to be both. For instance, the movie "The Accountant" features a character that achieves difficult things; and is relatable to anyone with similar introverted tendencies, and aspirational in that he achieves excellence.

Not all the characters are written to be relatable and flawed. Rey, for example, had neither flaws nor challenges -- she picked up a light saber and was able to fight a Jedi-trained Kylo Ren to a draw.

@@rcrawford42 "Not all the characters are written to be relatable and flawed." Imagine Superman that is not weakened by Kryptonite nor turned evil by Green Kryptonite. Just good, honorable, smart, powerful and incorruptible. Hmm, a bit like Gandalf. Not "all knowing" but essentially incorruptible. "What matters is what you do with the time you have been given."

@@thomasmaughan4798 Gandalf is a special case, but his peers show how he could have failed -- the blue wizards lost to history, Radagast focusing on animals over the sentient races, and of course Saruman...

Or Frank Herbert🤣

That there is the crux of bad entertainment, they live in echo boxes and believe it.

I don’t think that was Disney being afraid of a cavalier ladies man being reacted to poorly by modern audiences though, and more because Abrams has no creativity and erased everyone’s character development from the previous movie, Han is still a space criminal in TFA for the same reason, Leia apparently had no Jedi training in that movie despite Episode 6 implying that it was really important that she get that right away

So true. It gave permission for Kylo to run him through because he was a bad dad. Who was at the pitch meeting when they came up with the idea, "Okay, we're not going to let Luke, Leia and Han get together AND we're going to kill off Han so we will NEVER see it happen. How do you like that?"

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

As an historian, I would blame government/ the ultra rich with removing both history and critical thinking from our curriculum.

Well, I think somebody must have been ashamed of our socioeconomic history and the history of our entertainment industry in order for them not to have it taught to them in the first place.

@@donovanmedieval Ah, no... That’s what totalitarians do as a matter of course and it sure as hell isn't for the benefit of those they are deliberately leading into the dark. Nice try, comrade.

​@@donovanmedieval That somebody was lazy and ignorant, at best - and a self-interested, hateful, short-sighted, book-burner - at the worst. If that was a conscious decision, to not TEACH relevant history - they weren't fighting some shameful deed, so much as throwing a vindictive tantrum. "who are you, who do not know your own history" "those who refuse to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it" We pay for public schools for a reason.

Don't forget Takei cashing in on how _trendy_ his preferences are these days...

Voyager was/remains spacejunk - Janeway easily had the most irritating voice ever (plus the character was almost as irritating as Babylon 5s Bester [the most punchable little shit in the Galaxy - shoutout to Walter for doing such a fantastic job]. Plus Voyage was both 2-dimensional and skinpeelingly boring.

i fear it is worse, they want to "reamigane" everything fitting to there idea how the world should look and work. The experience they are missing is that certain rules apply and you ain;t changing that.

They all watched the movie and never read the book.

They're basicly writing bad fanfiction with a big budget behind them.

I am going to take it one step further. They lack talent in general because many were diversity hires. Diversity is all well and good. But when it becomes your primary focus, you will invariably encounter situations where a larger portion of your talent pool is sub par. That isn't a dis on any culture or race. It is simple mathematics. If you have 100 of one particular race or gender and 50 of another race or gender, but you are told you have to maintain equality with the 100 spots you need to fill, you will hire 50 of the 100 of one race/gender and ALL 50 of the other race/gender. But due to the fact that you have a surplus in the one, you can invariably be more selective. The end result is you have literally fostered a situation where the one race/gender will now have to compensate for the inadequacy in the other race/gender just by virtue of the face that you couldn't be selective with the latter. It isn't being mean. It's math.

@@Diomedes01 I think it's worse than that. As soon as they take their eyes off the ball and start to focus on shallow surface traits like sex, sexuality and skin colour rather than raw talent they probably lose the ability to recognise talent in 'non-diverse' writers as well.

"Show, don't tell" At times, narration helps. The example I think of is the first Dune movie that starts out with narration to set the stage. For that matter, "Rango" sets the stage. Every episode of Mission Impossible started with a stage-setting narration, the mission itself, and if you missed that part, you had no idea what the rest of the show was doing.

I have no doubt. My daughter is a Mill and she is a history buff, package designer and kick boxer. And she loves Kurt Vonnegut. It's all I need.

The few millennials interested in history are not enough to compensate for the ignorance of the mass of millennials.

@@sherril.562 Heh heh. You can imagine why I would avoid speaking for the ladies. But I think that's what I would assume. Captain Kirk as a possible mate must have been very appealing.

Sorry, you're wrong. He had a legion of men as role models. John Wayne, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Marlon Brando...do I need to go on? There are many, many more.

@@RodFleming-World Obviously, I disagree. I'm talking about the character of Captain Kirk. You named a bunch of actors. I'm just saying it was a unique amalgam character, situation and theme. If you disagree that's fine. You don't need to be a prick about it.

@@thanksfernuthin look in a mirror.

Spock was my favorite as a young girl. When I read the book wrath of khan, I wept when Spock died. At that time I was a grown woman.

Wow Ray, good comment and heartfelt, thanks. Keep it up.

Amok Time

@@fredhughes4115 Vulcan was such a racist and sexist planet. Imagine allowing two men too fight over a woman and imagine her rejecting Spock cause he's a half human loser. LOL. ( Such a romantic scene. )

Star Trek was conceived of and written by people who had survived World War II. They experienced the hard decisions and trade-offs that societies and people had to make to achieve their goals and survive. They also had a sense of big picture of human history. Where we came from, where we are, and what we aspire to become. Today's generation of writers have known nothing but peace, prosperity, and luxury. It shouldn't come as a surprise that their stories reflect their experiences.

@@00bikeboy it was certainly an optimistic vision of the future, a vision of humanity living in harmony, way ahead of its time for the 1960s, especially considering how socially tumultuous that decade was in the US. Yet strangely, Star Trek Discovery, of which I only watched series one 5 years ago, written by people, as you state, with no direct experience of a world war, was the darkest, most insolent, pessimistic, F-word laden iteration ever made. Make of that what you will

TOS Kirk is misattributed as being a horn dog. I think people confuse him with Riker from TNG. He was pretty restrained when it came to use his high charisma score on the ladies, only doing so to gain an advantage on the mission. (Or suffers amnesia in one episode and defaults to husband mode) He’s also misremembered for being careless with the redshirts. He was always pissed when one of his crew died.

He was certainly more rounded by the time the movies came along, that's why he needed a girdle! Haw haw

@@ffsireallydontcare You scallywag, you! 😃

I'll throw this out there, given how todays jeune ecole likes to change things up, how would they shoot blazing saddles

I remember that scene. The professor lectures on how "business" is actually run, Rodney laughs and tells them how it really is and the students are suddenly taking notes on what he is saying because he was a successful businessman. He was telling them how the "real" world worked.

I love how Dangerfield's character hires the real Kurt Vonnegut to help him write a term paper about Kurt Vonnegut...and then the professor later tells Dangerfield that he was completely wrong about Kurt Vonnegut. And yes, the economics professor dismissed real-world government and union corruption's impact on business.

Which reminds me, Demolition Man took on a whole new life. Though what could the 3 🌊 🐚 stand in for?

It depends on which part of our extremely diverse society you are looking at. I think you could make a case for our mostly black inner cities having a culture of toxic masculinity. They are violent with the leading cause of death for young black males being murdered by other young black males. I read about a black man in a bar who was shoved, got into it with another black man, and was asked to leave. He came back with a gun and started shooting people. That is how unwilling he was to allow his masculinity to be questioned. If you live anywhere near one of these areas, which I used to, it is frightening how how easily violence erupts in these areas. It would be in the news all the time, and that was probably the tip of the iceberg. I suspect this is also the reason hate crimes against black transgender women are almost always in these areas. Domestic violence is the leading cause of death for young black women aged 15 to 35 in America. Toxic masculinity is also expressed in sex for it's own sake and the sexual conquest of a woman being the objective. Family is unimportant, and the majority of black kids in those areas have no father in their life, as he is on to the next conquest. My brother worked at a parish in inner city Baltimore while preparing for the priesthood, said the area was known as the worst part of the city. He said there were so many girls who were molested by predatory older males, some of them related to the victim. That is another, less talked about, aspect of abandoning your children: the emotional abandonment of objectifying them and molesting them. A whole subculture is in deep trouble, and all the talking points "woke" people make about toxic masculinity are the reason. The irony for me is that woke people hardly ever address this, because in their world view black men are always the victims of oppression and systemic racism, which creates a conflict. How can the oppressed be the oppressor?

@@krisaaron8180 It depends, indeed. I don't like the term toxic masculinity because it has become misleading, effectively making people think that there's only an issue with men's behavior, and solely because they're male. As if women aren't capable of being equally bad. Although, to be fair the term being misused is the fault of those that have no regard for the arguments behind the term. Creating a false perception that the problem is less than what it actually is and that there's no problem with men specifically, which when you consider most men are responsible for sexual crimes because men specifically care more about sex in a positive and negative way. Yeah, I'd say that's a problem related to males specifically that should be addressed legally, and culturally. Oh yes, the villain mentality. Justifying the actions of those that have been wronged (victims), no matter how terrible their behavior becomes. The woke need perspective, they pretend to champion progressive views, but what they're pushing is very regressive. Their portrayals of women is just the "toxic masculinity" they accuse male characters of, while their portrayal of men has become a fantasy, making them submissive. It's not just that they want better representation of female characters, they often do not want attractive female characters at all. Dictating how women can and can't be seen. Which is what conservatives used to do, for the same reason, because of how men would see them. They couldn't get husbands if they were considered sluts. Now women aren't being allowed to be admired for their sex appeal by men. It's interesting how the pressure to correct "the male gaze" has always been the responsibility of women. So while the Woke continue to profit off some real issues, twisted into nonsense, women continue to get the short end of the stick, and communities that are suffering through more serious issues aren't being given the attention they need.

And This is WHY over the past 2 years, people under 40, on the whole could NOT handle a world wide health crisis like Covid19 spreading all over the world rather quickly! (For reasons I won't go into here!) A gen+ of relative prosperity, has lead to no resilience, or ability to cope with some hardships, which are inevitable from time to time! It happens to every1 at some stage! When things go PEAR shaped, NO1 knows HOW to cope with a bit of adversity! ASK a modern Ukrainian how it's going atm! (Gritting their teeth and getting ON with it, just LIKE my mother's gen did when the NAZIS invaded them and dragged them away to be slave labour! (Or worse! )) Todays flakes would be curled up in foetal positions crying, instead of trying to FIX things!

@@BeNice108 The people they claim to 'care' about or 'advocate' for, are just 'useful idiots'!

It is dialogue that drives a movie not the flash bang massive scenes. Look at LOTR. In those scenes where battles are immanent characters are given speeches to give weight to what is to follow. That is. to my way of thinking a better way than letting the visual carry the message. If a character does not speak then he is incidental.

Yeah.But new generations still enjoy those old media products instead nowadays not even wokes like their woke products.

From your comment I doubt you've seen many movies made before the 1970s. The B movies from the 40's and 50's are WAY better written than today's top of the line "blockbusters." I think because they don't have a message to preach. They just tell good stories.

i agree with you.@@mikebrines5708

@@mikebrines5708 perhaps chato could do a show on our feelings about old movies

Not to put too fine a point on it: it came from our educational system. Garbage in; garbage out.

The point was, humanity evolved beyond knee-jerk gunboat diplomacy, and was trying to apply more foresight and diplomacy to prevent destructive wars, while at the same time, having a sliding scale of violence to apply should the need arise.

On re-watch I found TNG to be very dystopian. I can't imagine the effort they must have put into making jazz boring enough for Ryker.

Wrong about TNG, I think. That series raised the moral standard of humans through stories that demanded ethical and moral decisions beyond Captain Kirk. See the episode when Picard goes home to see his brother and crosses a line when he visits violence upon his brother. A superb uplift to moral decision choices. Picard and crew are working in a larger universe than Kirk's. The moral evolution in TNG's world is evident.

@@janettucker3196 - It's a matter of personal style (TNG producers had contempt for TOS and didn't watch the episodes) and taste. TOS was always interesting and exciting while watching TNG I found myself yelling "Get on with it" at the screen for most episodes. Too much tea drinking and dour introspection instead of fun action-adventure.

Wow, thank you!

That's the plan!

the same used in screenwriting for a century

Thank you for writing that! You are spot on!!!

I couldn't deal with Lovecraft Country because the writing was very lazy. And that seems to be a trend for a lot of geek culture shows.

It's a ton more more. No one wants to put that work in and the executives don't want to read it.

One of my favorite unstated items was the reality of the Vorlons and Shadows. It was so delicious and infuriating that we knew the Vorlons were good, but often blocked what we and the characters in the show wanted to get done while the Shadows were clearly evil and would be helpful. Part of how that worked out is that the Vorlons were like parents, watching out for our best interests. No you can't have 10 of your friends come over and have a kegger party when you graduate from high school. Whereas the Shadows wanted to stir things up and cause problems they could later capitalize on. The would be more than willing to host the party and even provide the beer. Then the police are called, your dad decides to punish you and sells the car he got you as a graduation present, which your neighbor then buys for $500 plus the cost of the 2 kegs of beer.

@@BreetaiZentradi well put. the Vorlons and Shadows using the lesser races to do all their bidding and the fallout of that landing on all the lesser races. So amazing. So many things from that show are relevant to today too. "arrogance and stupidity in one package, how efficient" and to miss quote, "the quiet ones, are the ones that change the universe..." Mr Morden "what do you want?" A simple question.

@@maarkaus48 I despair for the Babylon 5 reboot. JMS is a great writer and producer. However studios want to be up for Emmy's and Oscar's and the only way to do that now is to be so full of duh-versity at every level that you put out teh subpar product.

@@BreetaiZentradi I honestly forgot it was being rebooted. I really have given up on newer shows. Maybe I am just getting old. I do wish JMS the best with it. IF he is actually producing, it might be okay. If others are producing and he is just around as a consultant... who knows.

Fuck, I didn't know they were going to reboot B5. I was secretly hoping our favorite series was just obscure enough ther wokesters were unaware of it. Artoo, we're doomed.