It is wild to see the entitlement of some segments of the fanbase. These people would shit and piss their pants if they were comic book fans.
Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
If I’m not the target audience it’s bad. No one else should enjoy the franchise I like in a way I don’t want to
Is such a bizarrely stupid stance to take.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 4 days ago
data1701d@startrek.website 4 days ago
I think it’s less “I’m not the target audience” and more if you’re going to do a Star Trek [insert genre/target audience] show, do it right.
It’s certainly possible to create an intelligent pre-school show that isn’t painful for adults to watch. Take Bluey, for instance. Toddlers love that show, but it also has a cult following among the adults that watch it with their kids, and the style doesn’t look like every single other kids television series on the air.
In comparison, Scouts has a cheap-looking generic style I’ve seen before, and the plots we’ve seem are absolutely brain-dead and superficial. Sure, maybe we don’t need the kids to talk at length about the subspace plasma inverter matrix manifolds or whatever, but that doesn’t mean the show can’t be more than just bright colors and barely coherent plots. It just doesn’t do any justice whatsoever to what Star Trek is.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.