Are there Any Woke Properties that you Unironically Enjoy?

[glass_houses]

Good Omens, mainly because of some of the tumblr fanart.
Some of it's cute, and I've got a twisted sense of what's cute.

I think I would have enjoyed the series if I hadn't read the book (repeatedly)

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I enjoyed some of the newer James Bond stuff, but it wasn’t Bond. It was basically just the Bourne Identity. As it went on later and later it eschewed its own identity as basically a male power fantasy.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Over the years I developed idea that there is no such thing as "Art for Art's Sake", everything has a message behind it, whether it's political, social, or philosophical.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Over the years I developed idea that there is no such thing as "Art for Art's Sake", everything has a message behind it, whether it's political, social, or philosophical.

Art is tied to commerce. Art that cannot sell fails. Art has always either been a product or a means of personal expression.

A starving artist is ultimately a retard.

 

[Nut-Roaster the 2nd]

I think I would have enjoyed the series if I hadn't read the book (repeatedly)

I think my relative unfamiliarity with Pratchett's library spared me from feeling very much vitriol towards the adaptation, and I consider it to be like how one enjoys a weirdly-written, grocery store romance novel. Also, I kinda wanna see how Season 3 wraps all of it up, if we ever get it.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I like Pikmin 4 despite having some woke bullshit like the leaflings being refereed to in non-binary pronouns.

 

[Some Badger]

Is Community considered woke? I really like the first three seasons. The only thing Dan Harmon made that I like.

Considering the demographic makeup of the study group and by extension the faculty at Greendale, it's safe to say that Community kinda makes fun of everyone. It also helps that it was made at a time just before the contemporary crop of aggressive leftist moralizing in media bloomed in full.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I like Pikmin 4 despite having some woke bullshit like the leaflings being refereed to in non-binary pronouns.

I can bet you this isn't the case in the Japanese version of the game.

 

[Woodchipper]

The Netflix sci-fi series "Another Life" was the first thing to come to mind. In my opinion it's a very compelling and well written story. Downside is it's got a tranny, racemixing and faggotry shoehorned in to hit that Netflix (((diversity))) quota. But the show is good enough to balance that out and I couldn't recommend it enough.
Overall, I'm pretty much over my "I'm so autistically mad at things I don't like that I can't have fun anymore" phase. The logical conclusion to the "wignat" rabbit hole is you either say "screw the optics, I'm going in" or you learn to make peace with how things are while doing your small part to push for a better world. I'll probably write out my full thoughts on that in another thread.

 

[OwlShaman]

I mentioned this earlier in the horror movie thread in Multimedia, but I enjoyed Cerdita/Piggy. I thought it was going to be a "fat girl revenge" movie like Carrie but it ended up being a lot deeper than that.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

I thought Billie Bust Up looked kind of nice, especially Barnaby. The silly, flamboyant ghost owl.

It's quite disheartening that they're almost certainly going to make every character in the game a fag, a troon, or some kind of gender bender. Normalizing young kids identifying with retarded shit like "nonbinary."

Not worth a purchase when it comes out. Maybe a pirate out of morbid curiosity.

 

[A serious hat]

I guess if you consider Star Trek to be woke, I love Star Trek. Not Nu-Trek generally (haven’t watched Strange New Worlds or Below Decks as I loathe that style of animation) but we did love Picard. No I’m not an autist lol I promise.

 

[gorgoroth7134]

It's not as in your face with it as some other properties but it's there in thankfully small doses.

I also really enjoy Bob's Burgers. I think some of the newer stuff is leaning more left, but they do a good job of keeping it realistic most of the time. They ride the line.

As an example of how it's done right, in Season 8, episodes 6 & 7 "The Bleakening" the antagonist is the lgbt community but the reasoning behind everything is pretty solid/realistic. The og club is shut down due to violating city codes, the tree-thief says he is just under a lot of pressure, and Linda forgives him because she realizes that his goals align with hers, doesn't have anything to do with accepting the lgbt community or anything, the question is just "how can we come together FOR our community".

An example of how they do it wrong is actually one of my favorite episodes, "Amelia" episode 22 in season 13. It actually made me kind of understand feminist's take on Amelia Earhart, I didn't necessarily have a problem with the feminism because it was realistic (school project on hero's, very relatable, and Louise also addresses the disappointing parts of the story) but the literal blue-haired, obviously trans kid in the wheelchair "Benj" is an obnoxious introduction. Normally I'm all for them introducing new characters, seeing the world expand is great, but there is already a bunch of canonically relevant people that Louise knows who make and perform puppets from season 9, episode 18 "If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marionette?", one of which is Ron, a recurring character. I just get the feeling that it would have undermined the feminist angle if Louise had gotten help from a male character. She could have also gotten help from Dot or Esther?

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Most definitely Everything Everywhere All at Once! One character likes girls and it's a significant part of her, BUT very insignificant compared to the rest of her character. She's got incredible depth and development beyond a one-note alphabet person. Also Jamie Lee Curtis is in this, but I like her character too.
The score, writing, and themes are so striking and wonderful. I love how they use Clair de Lune in certain scenes. Movies like this are a treasure.

Umm, I also really loved Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse. The trans thing...it's an eyesore, but the rest of the film being so well done makes it forgivable to me.

 

[Salty Squid]

I guess video games in general, since most of them go woke or at least woke-ish these days especially when they're family friendly franchises so they can appeal to the hip progressive modern youth.

I also still enjoy using tumblr despite its reputation as the cradle of modern social justice bullshit as well as the recent attempts the staff made to kill the site make it into an uglier twitter. It still has easy to customize blog pages, archives to find shit from long ago again with, and a decent tagging system, and that's all I need.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert get brought up yet?

Priscilla really is an example of how the world was heading towards a social utopia of sorts in the 90s. A movie about drag queens trying to live their lives without any heavy-handed message or vitriol that was made for the general public and not to score points with trannies. Truly a different time.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

I like Murdoch Mysteries.

Of course, all the good guys are uncharacteristically progressive and all on-board with feminism, BLM and LGBT, and the ones that aren't are moustache-twirling villains or learn their ways, and Dr Ogden is fairly obnoxious a lot of the time, yet

The characters are quite endearing and lovable, the show doesn't take itself incredibly seriously, it is fairly well-written whenever The Message doesn't get too heavy handed and, in general, it's good fun to watch.

 

[Baraadmirer]

Of course, all the good guys are uncharacteristically progressive and all on-board with feminism, BLM and LGBT,

Some of the development's fairly organic, as I seem to recall Murdoch being a little wary of the gays and when he tried to go undercover.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Some of the development's fairly organic, as I seem to recall Murdoch being a little wary of the gays and when he tried to go undercover.

I tend to agree, but I'll be nitpicky:

Male characters are nuanced, and have an organic character development where they somewhat navigate their different prejudices, ideas or cognitive dissonances.

Female characters, with the exception of Margaret Backenreid (Who is based) and Ruth Newsome, are all full-blown woke and passive-aggressively despondent from the very start.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I'll admit I liked The Color Purple. The original. It felt grounded and gruesome but heartwarming by the end. It's a great story.

Then I saw the trailer for the remake and I was extremely concerned. Looks like they removed all the harshness and leaned harshly into WE WUZ KANGS AND KWEENS

Yeah don't think I'm gonna enjoy that one.