I see the trailer, I don’t think is the best serie in the world, but I think can be something fun to watch, to nowdays standards that is enough to me really.
I need to watch it to have an opinion, I have the feeling people need to give a chance at least, I did with Voyager despite all the negative critics I saw.
What you think about this?
if you’re posting about diversity being a negative, you’ve totally missed the point of all Star Trek since 1966.
Yea, they definitely fucked the phrasing on that one, but I think their point is it’s negative to focus on diversity over the story.
A good story with a focus on diversity and accepting others? Good!
Diversity for the sake of casting a minority actor in a role that’s otherwise squandered and only shown off as a token? Bad!
The positive interpretation is akin to what Warwick Davis meant in his criticism against Snow White: Don’t use minorities as a token, especially a marketing token. If you’re going to do it, make it mean something so they’re not just a token that can be dismissed at will, or even mocked by haters.
It is, in fact, bad to have diversity for diversity’s sake, as far as producing fiction. At least when diversity itself is already established in media in general. This isn’t the 60’s. You’re NOT progressive for simply putting someone with a different skin color or genetic issue on screen.
I doubt that’s what they meant, partly because it really doesn’t seem to apply to either Disco or Picard. Both had their fair share of issues in the writing, but I wouldn’t say tokenism was among them (unless you count Disco’s bury-your-gays moment, but they course corrected on that).