Are there Any Woke Properties that you Unironically Enjoy?

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Steven universe has awful main characters, dialogue, side characters, scripts, writing, art, themes, messaging, arcs and stories, but the setting/deep lore on the gem empire is (or rather was) genuinely fucking amazing, I watched the entire thing + the movie + the extra series because I was desperate to learn more about it even if it was being drip fed while rebecca was busy making tranny allegories every other episode or whatever.

The gems themselves are one of the few actually "alien" alien civilizations I've seen that are actually "alien" to our concept of a sentient being by being not strictly biological, the only other species I've seen achieve the same effect are sentients from warframe but those have 0 development beyond aesthetics and won't get any for the forseeable future anyway.

Someone should take this setting from the talenless hack that is rebecca and give it to an actually talented writer and set of artists, they could do SO MUCH with it.
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I enjoyed Umbrella Academy but things started feeling weird even before Ellen Page trooned out.
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I thought the first season was pretty neat, but season 2 was genuinely attrocious, even without the woke shit and the hacky amnesia plot, what ellen's + sissy's characters did is completely fucking unforgivable, by the end of the season I wanted both of them to get hit by a truck.
 
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Almost everything about Steven Universe is crap but the one thing I like about it is the general structure of the plot of the show. I like how the show started off as a slow episodic slice of life with fantastic elements thrown in only to slowly reveal the greater world the characters inhabit and then finally start the real serialize story of the show a couple of seasons in. That structure is something that a better visionary should steal.
 
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I really liked Mafia III even though it was in some ways an anti-segregation power fantasy and historically inaccurate in its depiction of the Mafia. I thought it was very upfront about how it’s hero was as much of a scumbag as the villains, and it had this sort of amoral tribalism feeling to it.

It was much better than RDR2, where it constantly moralized through its scumbag murderer/thief gangsters.
 
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I enjoyed Peacemaker quite a lot though a lot of the wokeness is lost when the main character doesn't roll with it most of the time
 
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The History of Bees by Norwegian authoress Maja Lunde. It's marketed as 'dystopian climate fiction' which sounds like the most retarded shit ever, and yes the book does revolve around climate change to an extent but I was very pleasantly surprised. The climate activism shit is just background, the characters were really well written and the story unfolded beautifully
 
I didn’t think Rings of Power was as terrible as it was made out to be. The shoehorning of black people everywhere was cringe simply because of how obviously forced it was but aside from that it was fine. Not as good as the movies, but fine. I think the casting for young Elrond and Galadriel was pretty good.
 
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Hepativore said:
I do actually like Steven Universe, because the lore behind the gems is interesting, and I like how the relationship between Steven and his father is portrayed as a positive one, instead of the tired old stereotype of the abusive/clueless father.

Then again, I would not call the show "woke" per se, it is just that the Tumblr crowd has latched on to it, and so people associate it with the toxic fanbase that inserts its own viewpoints into the show that have nothing to do with the show itself.
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It literally was the first show on a kids tv network ever to have a fag couple in it (ruby and sapphire or whatever they were called). It was definitely woke. That said, I agree with you. It had a lot of potential but too bad Rebecca Sugar has terminally online brain syndrome and ruined anything good that show had going for it.
 
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Worj said:
It literally was the first show on a kids tv network ever to have a fag couple in it (ruby and sapphire or whatever they were called). It was definitely woke. That said, I agree with you. It had a lot of potential but too bad Rebecca Sugar has terminally online brain syndrome and ruined anything good that show had going for it.
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It definitely wasn't as good as it could've been, but in my experience both sides either overrate or overhate it. It's really not worth all the hubbub.

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I didn’t think Rings of Power was as terrible as it was made out to be. The shoehorning of black people everywhere was cringe simply because of how obviously forced it was but aside from that it was fine. Not as good as the movies, but fine. I think the casting for young Elrond and Galadriel was pretty good.
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Elrond and Durin's friendship is the core of that show IMO. It's just different enough to Legolas and Gimli to not be a complete retread, though sadly the same can't be said about a lot of the show itself.

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I think Saga is a good comic.
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I remember liking what little I read of it. No idea how it ended (if it's not still going).
 
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