Monday 26 April 2021

Progressive entertainment.

A first world problem. Companies creating comic book super heroes to suit aims, insisting that the company is very diverse and inclusive. The result in almost every case is something that has a hint of the offensive characterisation to make a black super hero character. Cliché and unoriginality are common, often simply creating a direct rip off of an existing popular character. Praise is meant to be piled upon such things, because you end up with a black-female ironman clone with a poor black criminal clichéd template, a thing that can be easily promoted for stance and quality can be ignored.

Old news. Strong female character in a lead role, sold online as a first, even if it is many years behind the actual first. Female this or that, even better, or worse, first black-female this or that, firsts counted over creative excellence. Studio choices in TV and film, novels and comic book series, to promote a sense of progressive values by rushing out, green lighting projects that make them the first, or the first great success. Media coverage places great praise on characters that are wooden and stories that have been done to death. And stuff that might otherwise be called racial stereotypes is accepted because you have a person in a role that means it would be absurd to call them racist or sexist. Often, it is better to note the lack of creativity, although, that opens you up for absurdity yourself. Making it easy to call you a bigot for daring to critique a film that many think of as social justice in action.

The heart of the problem is that one or other avenue of creativity is chosen, it is how forced such acts are, to say that they placed their flag on the mountain. That kind of positive press, a prestige as a legacy for opportunistic corporations. When they wish it, the progressive media promote their work for free. Even if the progressives are truly ignorant of if a thing is a first or not. First black lead in star trek, scratch that. First female lead in star trek, correct that. Correction after you get told that it wasn't the case, first black-female lead, only realising error when readers correct the authors who do no research. Often, they're too busy preaching a first, or a great leap of a kind, instead of offering a review. The narrative of the progressive media is praise without insight, long drawn-out reviews that seem to read as "About-time" stretched out to five hundred letters. The quality of the art is placed on the back-burner, on a low heat, it never seems to boil over, while the politics is often cooked up front and a little too fast. Making the prepared dish seem like a combination of under cooked meat and over cooked vegetables. Which can make it a little hard to digest.

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