(02-11-2024, 07:09 PM)Snarl Wrote: If they can't 'get rid of it' ... they change the race of the character leads ... or they bend genders ... anything to throw off the memory of what was.
Or both, as in the case of the new black female Dr. Who.
Paramount and I have a history of mutual combat, so I don't watch much of anything Paramount any more. Piss on 'em if they don't want me watching their crap - so far, I've not missed much. Star Trek pretty much ended for me after the original series. I don't watch any of the new crap their pushing out, especially if it involves me shelling out any pennies to Paramount.
The last straw with paramount came a few years ago. I had downloaded some 10 year old obscure comedy that had Busty Heart in it, a movie no one had ever heard of, and watched it. I watched it because Busty recommended it to me as her shot at the silver screen. She still runs a roadside club in Turtle Point, PA, just east of Bradford. It was so obscure that I couldn't find a DVD of it or find it streaming anywhere, so I just downloaded it, which was the only way I could find it to watch at all. In those days, I'd find something to watch, download it, then watch it and erase it to make room for the next movie to watch. Paramount was monitoring my video connection apparently, and sent me a nasty letter insisting I delete what I'd already deleted, so I was done with paramount at that point. Fuck 'em - there are plenty of other companies out there who don't mind if I watch their stuff.
The original series was a Desilu production, so I'm ok with watching it if I catch it on TV, but none of the Paramount-produced stuff crosses my screen. Otherwise, if I see a Paramount splash screen on anything, I turn it off immediately and find something else to watch.
My son did recommend some new ST series to me, but I watched a couple episodes, realized the hero was a heroine, a black girl exercising loads of "grrrl pwr", and stopped watching it. She seemed to have a way of pulling victory out of the ass of extreme fuckups, and that was just a bridge too far for me.
Kirk and Spock didn't have to have extreme fuckups designed to cover their gender/race/species. They didn't have to jump through hoops to pull victory out the jaws of incompetence. They just ventured forth, kicked ass, and took names.
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