Reboot canceled likely too woke?

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I don't think people have ever claimed that woke doesn't exist. The problem is every time something makes a political point or dares to go for diverse casting the woke label gets slapped on it, in a negative way. Its become a term hijacked by a certain group for political purposes, for clickbait or to spread hate. Its an over used term that's the problem. In the case of modern Trek, its the writing which is bad about a lot of it, its got nothing to do with it being too woke. Star Trek was always woke its just the term didn't exist back then. I've seen lots of crap from the 70s, 80s, 90s etc.. But people never got up in arms about it being too this or too that, they just called it bad.

I put quotation marks around "woke" not because it doesn't exist but because the word's meaning is so malleable in the hands of certain people. It means whatever they want it to mean at any point in time. Usually, it just means they don't like a piece of media or they disagree with its messaging. So, it's "woke"! "Woke" is bad, right?!

Be careful about calling Star Trek, and other older media, "woke" as you will usually get two counters to your claim. Either it will be the dumb "those shows/movies were definitely not woke... I wouldn't have liked them otherwise", or it will be "those had progressive messages, but they weren't woke"! For the latter group, they see "woke" as the extreme version of progressive ideology. So, they'd just argue that old Star Trek had tolerable levels of progressiveness.

As for your last point, yes. That is why I said that "woke" is the new "it sucks", except it's only applied to media that has some tenets of progressive ideology. If a show or a movie doesn't have any such elements (which is rare, because those anti-"woke" peeps will look for any crumb of potential "wokeness"), then it will just be bad and won't be obsessed about.

The original novel had those themes already. The newer version just applied them to something more recent. Happens all the time.

Pretty much. It's just a dystopian story, sort of like 1984, except while Orwell's story is a critique of political totalitarianism and the death of objective truth, Atwood's story is more of a critique of religious fundamentalism and the death of bodily autonomy for women.

Getting back to the Buffy cancellation. It will remain a mystery why it was cancelled. SMG said it was because of one guy who hadn’t seen the original show made the call, she's got no reason to make that up so I for one believe her. It is truly baffling when you think of some of the random stuff that does get greenlite some of it much more obscure than Buffy. I mean who asked for 5 spinoffs from Yellowstone? 😆

Don't bring back the pain, Trick! 🙁 We already got screwed back then by the exec who canceled Angel. To think another individual destroyed the hope of us fans seeing Buffy on the small screen again is vile.