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> Netflix just streams videos? Netflix funds content. Netflix licenses content and has a say on how future content from that IP is produced. They are not just

> Netflix just streams videos? Netflix funds content. Netflix licenses content and has a say on how future content from that IP is produced. They are not just a streaming platform. When you look at every new show as of late you see themes commonly associated with wokeness. Replacing characters with "BIPOC" (I hate this term) when adapting from source material when it clearly seems out of place. Mixing in subtle commentary about immigration, healthcare, "hate" speech, etc. Women are always the strong saviors, men are always the aggressive out of control beasts or they're docile homemakers. You can see it in pretty much every show. Witcher Season 1/2 (immigration, replacing characters, men/women tropes), House of Cards Season 6 (all of the above), Altered Carbon, etc.

jakubmazanec 4y ago
How you read The Witcher book series? The Netflix show didn't make up the themes you mention
- roguecoder 4y ago
  Altered Carbon too: if anything they downplayed its themes of the ridiculousness of bigotry. Unless they were only going to adapt actual fascists like Campbell, it is impossible to create science fiction without questioning the premises our society is based on. That's sort of the whole point of the genre. If one considers science fiction "woke" that says more about the person watching than it does about the company making Hillbilly Elegy and Cobra Kai and The Crown.
  - ceeplusplus 4y ago
    Westworld manages to make it work. Plenty of science fiction films like Interstellar make it work. Hell, Black Mirror's entire point is social commentary yet it doesn't feel woke. > questioning the premises our society is based on There's a difference between doing this in a way that also tells a coherent story and one that just forces themes that don't exist into the story. One of those things is woke and the other one is not.
prawn 4y ago
Wouldn't this just be commercially smart when you're streaming to a broad variety of countries and people? It might look like a Benetton ad to anyone in the West if we're used to shows made primarily for our market, but less so to a lot of the world.

jakubmazanec 4y ago

How you read The Witcher book series? The Netflix show didn't make up the themes you mention

roguecoder 4y ago
Altered Carbon too: if anything they downplayed its themes of the ridiculousness of bigotry. Unless they were only going to adapt actual fascists like Campbell, it is impossible to create science fiction without questioning the premises our society is based on. That's sort of the whole point of the genre. If one considers science fiction "woke" that says more about the person watching than it does about the company making Hillbilly Elegy and Cobra Kai and The Crown.
- ceeplusplus 4y ago
  Westworld manages to make it work. Plenty of science fiction films like Interstellar make it work. Hell, Black Mirror's entire point is social commentary yet it doesn't feel woke. > questioning the premises our society is based on There's a difference between doing this in a way that also tells a coherent story and one that just forces themes that don't exist into the story. One of those things is woke and the other one is not.

prawn 4y ago

Wouldn't this just be commercially smart when you're streaming to a broad variety of countries and people? It might look like a Benetton ad to anyone in the West if we're used to shows made primarily for our market, but less so to a lot of the world.