Used to like the
Chilling Tales for Dark Nights Podcast until wokeness started creeping in. They shoehorned in diversity like "Hood Horror" . (Stories told from a black point of view!") Which made me wonder why they needed to segregate the stories by race? Did all of those family sitcoms starring black comedians in the 1980's feel the need to point out their cast was black before every broadcast? Did I tune into
Good Times needing to be told that it was a show about a black family that lived in the ghetto and that I'd be a goodthinker for watching it? Screaming out "Our show features The Black Experience!" just seems like a cheap marketing gimmick. It feels like the writers saying "If you criticize our show, you're a racist!" It also feels like race relations have gone
backwards from where they were 40 years ago, as shows featuring the "Black Experience"
then would try to hook you in with good writing and talented actors. Nowadays shows featuring black actors try to bully you into watching them by declaring you a bigot if you don't.
Aside from shoehorned in diversity, I've noticed a lot of horror podcasts featuring gay couples or badass women who act and talk like men. And it seems like this was mainly done for political purposes, not story purposes. You can almost hear the ALLCAPS as the story readers say lines like "Oh no! The lights are out in our home! I sure hope nothing bad has happened to my GAY BOYFRIEND who is alone at home now!"
That’s one of the major reasons I hate remakes: There’s always this underlying sentiment with them that the original somehow wasn’t good enough and can't enjoyed for its own merits, in it’s own context. It has to be updated to a "new and improved" version because people couldn’t possibly enjoy anything that wasn’t produced within the past few years.
People scoff at others who don't want remakes of things that held a lot of nostalgia for them. "Why are you so mad? It's not like the old one went anywhere!" My question is: Then why do we need to remake it at all? Why can't people just appreciate the original as it is? Oh, right, it's because you guys didn't actually like the original to begin with.
Remakes are a tricky thing. If there's a huge boost in technology, a remake can capitalize on it. (Fact: the 1950 color remake of
Ben Hur is a lot more well known than the black and white original silent version. But few people know of the recent
Ben Hur movie remake, probably because the updated effects and script added nothing to a story that was adequately told and sufficiently impressive 60 years ago.) Ray Harryhausen's stop motion SFX may look a bit janky today, but there was a craft to it. His version of the Medusa fight in the original
Clash of the Titans was a masterpiece of horror. The movie itself was an earnest, if campy attempt to bring the original Greek myths to light in the modern era. The 2010's Clash of the Titans however, was widely reviled because it "modernized" the story, showed contempt for the original movie, drained all of the horror out of the Medusa fight, and was inconsistent in its messaging. The
only thing it had was updated special effects, but since those effects revolved around a lukewarm story, they failed to impress. I'd much rather watch the original CotT a bunch of times than watch a bunch of cookie cutter heroes fighting a CG Medusa with movie star looks in a well-lit dungeon in the remake.
I'll admit, that remakes can work if the original films were made in a more repressed time. Subplots surrounding extramarital sex, gay characters, or heroes committing murder were often bowdlerized during the days of the Hays Code, so a remake that allows that material to be uncensored might be in order. Remakes of movies may also take place in different time periods, involve different cultures or be made in different styles from the originals. (Case in point, all of the Samurai films that ripped off American Westerns and all of the American Westerns that ripped off Samurai films.)
, while it is better to ignore an author's political views and just enjoy the story. The problem is most creators (at least in my experience) seem want to self-insert their views and beliefs into a story, either because they want to stay with times or they truly want some hamfisted statement about whatever current issue is going on in the world. There are a few exceptions though, like Butch Hartman who keeps his personal beliefs for the most part separate from his work or Alan Moore who while political, does things in a way that's subtle and not in your face a lot.
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