Naomi Klein wrote about how older sci fi was so optimistic and how she thinks the current trend of depressing dystopian sci fi is bad for society, which was an interesting take I thought.
The vibe I’m getting is “we’re eager and optimistic, but also, things get bad, the larger landscape is kinda bad and we are trying to hold straight faces?”
Herzog said ‘we are running out if images’ and that shit’s real.
Both are saying the fire of our imaginations is dead, and strongly implying that we have forgotten how to even hope.
And, like… We have. We have forgotten how to imagine better, to want better, to build a tomorrow, because tomorrow is on the far side on this raging river of blood that is rapidly flooding, and the time we could have built a bridge is so very long past.
And proposing we switch the terror from white to red for five seconds is a thing you’re not allowed to say.
Naomi Klein wrote about how older sci fi was so optimistic and how she thinks the current trend of depressing dystopian sci fi is bad for society, which was an interesting take I thought.
I agree.
you can see it in stories as simple as Star trek.
the after TNG it was about world building and character development.
then the reboot movie happened and it was about booms, zooms, and dooms after that.
the only thing that was remotely similar was season 2 of Picard. I haven’t watched 3 yet so IDK about it.
discovery is(and I mean this in the most platonic way), common TV garbage. I get the same feeling from it as I get from any other modern “syfy” show.
What about SNW?
The vibe I’m getting is “we’re eager and optimistic, but also, things get bad, the larger landscape is kinda bad and we are trying to hold straight faces?”
It feels very 2020s.
I haven’t seen SNW, from what I’ve seen(clips/reviews) it’s probably the most spirited successor to fit todays viewers.
Herzog said ‘we are running out if images’ and that shit’s real.
Both are saying the fire of our imaginations is dead, and strongly implying that we have forgotten how to even hope.
And, like… We have. We have forgotten how to imagine better, to want better, to build a tomorrow, because tomorrow is on the far side on this raging river of blood that is rapidly flooding, and the time we could have built a bridge is so very long past.
And proposing we switch the terror from white to red for five seconds is a thing you’re not allowed to say.