Someone like this Critical Drinker guy fixates on one or two topics and just goes off. He's (again in my opinion), not a critic. He's more akin to an Op Ed, Talking Head type.
That may be true, but you'd need to watch a lot of his vids to say. I've watched a couple dozen and think yes, he does have a small handful of issues he thumps, and doesn't always look at a film in enough detail. The Tomatoes reviewer you posted did a better job doing detailed criticism. However, he ignored the fans and what they were saying, despite he alluded to he was aware of the controversy. I have to agree with him that the bile was way too much, and the infighting between fans was crazy, but he didn't look at the cause and the cause was certainly this new ethical system that calls everything bad as good and everything good as bad. The fighting we saw is and was caused by rival value systems. Pushing one at the expense of the source material was foolish.
Meanwhile all this talk about 'Cancel Culture', did it not occur to you that you're doing exactly the same? Patting yourself on the back because you believe you've done your part in helping cancel the show and defend us all from evil woke culture?
Are you talking about McCarthy and the Red Scare? Yeah we're not quite there yet lol. Again 'people pushing back'? What people? Are you so bold as to make the claim that your views are mainstream and representative of the majority?
I'm not happy to see the show go. As I said, I agreed with virtually everything the reviewer you posted up had to say. I think it is shameful to dishonor the original based upon trendy notions of misogyny, but certainly that's not enough to cancel good work, and I think this was good work.
Lets be clear. In the anime, Faye is wearing a shiny (latex?) bikini/suit, a red sweat jacket she is constantly wrestling with, and stockings that only make it half way up her thighs. She is presented as in
a constant state of undressing without ever getting undressed. Count the scenes she's wrestling with the jacket to no avail. Her curves are intended to elicit the male labedo and form part of her personal power to manipulate men. All of that is gone from this rendition. Literally half Faye's personal power has been shorn from her by the woke mob. In the anime it was fun to watch Spike and Jet gulp back their obvious reactions to Faye and all of that is gone. There's some serious complaint in this. For some reason it is okay to present people fucking in Game of Thrones for no reason, but it is not okay to present a seductress manipulating her crewmates. How did that happen? It happened because the woke mob can't admit seduction as a personal power to be reckoned with. They consider this misogynist. Clearly it is not. It is simply one more aspect of a dystopian future where the way people present themselves knows no bounds. Bear in mind this was written for a Japanese audience that greatly values bounds and uniformity. All their school kids wear uniforms as do their businessmen. Breaking these boundaries presents as dystopian and contrasts against Spike who is in uniform.
Why didn't Chris Struckmann note ANY of this when it was THE CENTRAL ISSUE of all the complaints? Because he is terrified of the woke mob.
CD hit the nail on the head here. It is wokism that caused the stir, the changes from source material and the cancellation. I should note if you don't think we are at the point we were with the Red Scare, you should consider comedians like Dave Chappelle who the woke mob tried to cancel, and Bill Maher, who though certainly a member of the Left, has been at war with wokism for over a year. Other actors and comedians have begun speaking out (John Cleese, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais) and truthfully, it is at the level it was in the 50's. Even Captains of Industry like Elon Musk have been complaining. Note how Kathleen Kennedy strangled the Star Wars trilogy and how Gina Carano was fired, only to be rehired because of fan backlash. Chappelle is really funny and if as a society we cannot accept him, we're back where we were in the 50's.
People don't realize this is a 2,600 year old debate. Since that time in antiquity, values have swung back and forth between individualist and collectivist, between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, between freedom and social planning. If you want the latter in each of these categories you are free to go to China. People who don't value individual liberty, don't value private property ownership, don't value all the vast legacy of Western Civilization are free to leave and try somewhere else. If you have sympathises with "math is racist" and "science is a tool of the white patriarchy" why not go where others are doing it differently? Instead what they're doing is cancelling Chappelle, Carano, and rewriting Faye.
It's key here to note that the US is the longest running democracy in human history. Democracy is a fragile thing, even in its Republic form. In the past when those who value equality over freedom--meaning the equality of outcome folks, the intersectional folks, the complaint department folks--whenever they win the debate their government falls. We are indeed close to that point. All that's needed for the end is USG prints $5T past what they collect and so dilute the dollar through inflation, that the average working class guy will be out in the street swinging at whomever. That's exactly how nations end.
BTW, the Red Scare was a deliberate backlash to Soviet psy-ops in the late 40's and early 50's. That was collectivism creeping into the individualist nations and the backlash was the Scare.
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