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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

There are a couple of things that don't get mentioned enough regarding 'woke narratives.' And I think they are important because they change the entire dynamic of the discussion.

As a prelude, my overall take is that it's entertainment, enjoy it or don't and ignore people telling you to enjoy things you don't as well as avoiding telling others not to enjoy things they do. It's YOUR leisure time.

But first, it's not so much outrage that certain narratives exist, or certain casting choices are made, in and of themselves, that's the problem. It's the purposeful effort by the creators. Again, it's your leisure time, and creators should be balancing expressing themselves creatively and filling your entertainment desires. But in the realm of 'woke' purposefulness, creators are pointedly and explicitly taking on the unbidden task of ecumenicalism, teaching, preaching, sermonizing, etc. . . . It's not the 'outrage' that these choices HAPPEN to pop up in stories, it's the insult that creatives thing it's their duty to put those choices in their stories to message you the leisure consumer.

Second, and more directly responsive to your admonition about overseriousness, it's not so much how seriously you or I might take the storylines. It's how seriously others take it and fold it into their fundamental ethos. There are many things I've seen over the years that I took as a poignant but lighthearted or superficial points made in entertainment media, only to see people thereafter with a worldview that takes those points as fundamental and unquestionable.

It feels like a swindle of some sort when you see a message that you have a valid critique of, but you are dissuaded from voicing it, not because your criticism is invalid, but because you need to lighten up, . . . Then you find yourself debating people who take the message as literal gospel because they've never seen it critiqued.

Reminds me of the horrible kid's shows from when I was younger.