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Neil Young is a polio survivor. He did not want to share a space with someone broadcasting an anti-vax message. He made Spotify choose between him and Rogan and they chose Rogan. I don't see the huge problem here if you are someone who loves Rogan and now hates Young. Seems like it panned out how you'd want it to pan out! Seems to me that Neil Young has as much right as anyone else to decide which platforms his music is hosted on.

What about being anti-establishment means you also have to be anti-science? 😕

How the actual fuck are people surprised that Rage is left-leaning? Have you ever listened to their lyrics? Take notice of their imagery? They shot a fucking music video with Michael Moore! "I cannot believe a band whose logo is based on Zapatistas is left-wing!" = Apparently a real thing people are saying in 2022!

Her body is unreal.

Christen looks better like this! I didn't like it when she had lost a tiny bit too much weight.

I like the directors (Adil El Arbi & Bilall Falah)

I wouldn't be too surprised at some Dutch ancestry, there is something slightly Dutch about her facial features.

Cindy is a dreamboat.

I can't believe they didn't include Roger Stone in this meme!

Heya Pinky, how are you doing?

I think where we disagree is that I don't really see a woke agenda in a lot of the bad media we are being confronted with. There are reasons for why things are shitty, but I have given my perspective on why I think that is above. I see the direct influence of "wokeness" a lot more in stuff like SISE (MJ's activism through swimsuit issue) than I see it in TV and movies. A good movie is a good screenplay adapted to the screen by an able director, who marshals the various departments to create something special. But I am not overly preoccupied with the exact nature of the story or who the cast is (as long as they are good). Probably my favorite film of the past few years was "Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu" and that barely has any lines for male characters. But it is a beautiful story, incredibly well-shot, with some inventive scenes and a terrific soundtrack.

But this is conflating two things. Your original objection was to the character itself (her and Rey) and not to the actress who portrays her. I haven't read many American comics, but I did read quite a bit of the older Miss Marvel runs (back when Captain Marvel was still Miss Marvel). The Brian Reed run from the mid noughties. And she was already pretty high-powered even back then.

The cast is about the only thing I like about it. Especially Kate McKinnon doing a "female Egon" thing. But it is one of the worst-written movies I can remember seeing. Written by someone who clearly does not care about nor understand Ghostbusters. Before he himself was cancelled for apparently being a sexual predator, Max Landis wrote a good critique of it. Including the fact that a supposedly "progressive" movie had made the black character the only one who did not have an advanced degree (remember that she worked for the MTA whilst all of the others had a STEM background).

But Cap Marvel isn't the only overpowered character? So do you also hate say Superman then? Or Supergirl?

But what is woke about Afterlife? It's just a bad Ghostbusters movie. That sort of tried to make "Stranger Things, but it's Ghosbusters!" instead of a proper Ghostbusters film.

Captain Marvel is one of the most powerful characters within the Marvel universe. So you think they should diminish her powers when adapting her story for a movie? But why? They don't really do this for any other character. In fact, they do the opposite. e.g. Captain America should last about three seconds in a fight with Thanos if comics canon is applied.

In general I think that a lot of the "wokeness ruined this" debate is about other things. Like I hate the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters, but my problem with that film was not the cast. It was how poor the screenplay was and how visually unimaginative it all looked. It looked just like any other Paul Feig film. Whereas the original Ghostbusters was a comedy, but it wasn't shot like a comedy. It looked more than The Thing than it did like Caddyshack. I don't like Ghostbusters Afterlife either, another movie that suffers badly from terrible writing. Though at least Jason Reitman tried to recreate/update his father's visual style a bit more. So at least it looked more like a Ghostbusters movie than Feig's effort.

I do think it's a bit apparent, mostly in her face and her chest that she has lost a considerable amount of weight.

Her attire of these chores is always on point.

She has definitely lost weight. Too bad!

It isn't very good. If not for Sir Patrick Stewart, I'm not sure if if would have stuck around for the entirety of season one. But I also think Discovery isn't that great. Part of the problem is that the people running those shows aren't real Trekkies and they have been influenced more by JJ Abrams bad movies than by the prior Trek series (which were primarily about utopian humanism and an optimistic view of the future). I do have some hope for the upcoming Captain Pike series, starring Anson Mount as Pike.

Well it's more about the fact that the trend to turn male characters into female ones isn't exactly new? And people back then didn't care.

If you are referring to Daniel Craig's Bond dying, I'm pretty sure that has more to do with Craig being done with the role!

It's interesting that you use her as an example, that character was originally meant to be a man.

Also, for all of the supposed woes of the white male lead, a great number of the top ten biggest grossing movies of 2021 starred white men: 1. Spider-man: No way home - white male lead 2. Shang-chi - Asian lead 3. Venom - white male lead 4. Black Widow - female white lead 5. F9 - diverse ensemble 6. Eternals - diverse ensemble 7. No Time to Die - white male lead 8. A Quiet place II - white male lead 9. Ghostbusters: after life - largely white ensemble 10. Free Guy - white male lead