"Woke" Franchises

Tiamat

Tiamat

I've seen the future...
I admit....it has all gotten rather depressing. I find myself taking refuge in what novels and media came out before this "cultural marxism" crap started getting pandered to. Perhaps in time this too will come to pass...hopefully.

I must get back to my writing now, before I lose what semblance remains of my sanity.
 
Tiamat

Tiamat

I've seen the future...
TheRejectionist

TheRejectionist

TheRejectionist
nemo1986 said:
There are several RPGs based on those books. I play one of them with my friends. He seems to have forgotten these books were written in the 1930s.
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Suggestions? Not looking for table or board games, Just PC stuff.

Urabrask Revealed said:
The acceptable maximum of woke in anything these days should be Zero. Zilch. Nada. As such, I turn to old media.
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I did the sale and i have over 850 movies to Watch.
 
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Culsu

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TheRejectionist said:
Apparently there Is a video of The Drinker(Who Is notoriously antiwoke) Who recommends It.
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Give it a shot. I've finished episode six by now and to be honest, it's the first series in ages that I have never felt the need to hit skip forward on. It's extremely tightly scripted, the story is great and personal, the characters are well done, and the voice actors really do give it their best. So far I can really just recommend it. If there is woke messaging in it (I don't see it) they certainly are not slapping you in the face with it.
 
Val the Moofia Boss

Val the Moofia Boss

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Culsu said:
It's extremely tightly scripted
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Hard disagree. The show is way too decompressed. Too many filler scenes of people standing around and talking like they're in just another Western live-action show, rather than making the screen time count with actual plot progressing stuff happening. We didn't need scenes of Victor going to sit on the ledge of a sewer pipe to pout, or the council woman painting some abstract art, or the half dozen scenes of the mafia guy sitting in his chair in the office stabbing his eye with a drug needle. The first 3 episodes feel like there is at least some vague sense of a plot with cops coming after the protagonists, but then after that the scope becomes about this war that never happens and you're going to have to wait several years for the next season to get animated before you get to actually see it.

Arcane also has a bad case of Epic Fantasy Book Syndrome, where there are too many major PoV characters with their own stories and the show keeps bouncing back and forth between all of them, so you watch an hour long episode and overall hardly anything has happened. The show doesn't even successfully manage to juggle all of these major characters and their subplots, with some characters like Heimderinger conspicuously falling off the map in the last 1/3rd of the show. And the show is still introducing new characters and factions right up until the end. I dread to think how much of a slog the second season will be. Again, the first 3 episodes are somewhat decent because of their limited scope.
 
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