“Everything woke turns to s**t.,” in the profound words of President Donald Trump. However, my question about woke is, what’s the endgame?
When it comes to entertainment, everything about woke breeds failure. It’s only success , a near perfect track record of cringe when it comes to storylines in film and television. Nowhere has this been more true than Disney.
Once the pinnacle of family entertainment, the House of Mouse has become exhibit A of woke underachievement. The latest example of this ideological zeal , Star Wars: The Acolyte.
This show is a woke mess, featuring a coven of space witches without any males in the mix. Ala, the immaculate conception, two of the lesbian witches miraculously give birth to the twin protagonists of this story though the power of the Force, or rather the thread which , until this show, was never a part of Star Wars lore.
And what has happened to masculine heroes in the Star Wars universe? The weak beta males in this show serve only to elevate the girl bosses through their incompetence .
Don’t take my word about the stink factor of this latest Disney Plus (D+) outing . Just check its Rotten Tomatoes score.
Ignore the critics’s score because they’re a bunch of shills. Pay attention to the audience score of just 14 percent. That’s a fail, and in years past, a disaster.
But now? It’s the audience’s fault because they’re a bunch of racisssts , sexists and bigots for not understanding the show.
Disney is ruining once reliable intellectual properties (IPs) Marvel, Star Wars and Dr. Who by inserting woke tropes such as the all powerful female protagonist, race-swapping, white male villains and the LGBTQ-whatever agenda . This, of course, preceded by preemptive personal attacks on the core fan base to generate interest in the program and distract from the abysmal writing and character development in these shows.
The same goes for Amazon Prime’s The Boys, a tv show deconstructing superheroes. In its 4th season, the attacks on conservatives, Christian faith and President Donald Trump have lost any subtlety.
Showrunner Eric Kripke makes no bones about equating Homelander, an evil Superman parody , to Trump.
“[Homelander has] always been a Trump analogue for me. I’ll admit to being a little more bald this season than I have in past seasons. But the world is getting more coarse and less elegant. The urgency of our team’s writing reflects that,” Kripke told Rolling Stone during a recent interview. “We’re angrier and more scared as the years go on, so that is just being reflected in our writing. But part of it is where Homelander’s story naturally goes. He has this really combustible mix of complete weakness and insecurity, and just horrible power and ambition, and it’s just such a deadly combo. Of course he would feel victimized that people are angry that he dated a Nazi. All he ever wants is to be the most powerful person he can be, even though he’s completely inadequate in his abilities to handle it.”
Kripke’s just freaked out because Trump is resonating with even more Americans than in his first term. If you’ve never watched this depraved and gory show, just about every supe is a degenerate. Homelander , the most powerful superhero in world of The Boys, is also the main villain.
A super-powered man-child, Homelander is the antithesis of Superman. He wears the American flag, but hates the country. He lies, schemes and kills without remorse. Although he views humans with the utmost contempt, the public believes him to be the protector of America and its values. Kripke , through the Homelander character ,is attempting to gaslight viewers of The Boys that Trump is a similar sociopath.
Conservatives, who watched the show from its inaugural season have picked up on Kripke’s blatant mission to demonize Trump and MAGA ( Make America Great Again) within the show and are turning away from the series in droves. Again check out the audience score on the right of this Rotten Tomatoes screenshot.
This woke tactic may have worked in 2020, but certainly not in 2024. Sure, some Americans bought into the anti-Trump rhetoric during his first term. However, they are living through the America -destroying Biden polices such as mass illegal immigration, massive inflation and the jailing of political enemies.
Americans know something is terribly wrong because they are able to compare/contrast with Trump’s first term where inflation was negligible, unemployment for minorities was at an all -time low, illegal border crossing were the lowest in decades and America was becoming energy independent and an energy exporter. Most notably, Trump did not criminalize his political enemies.
Wokeness has nothing to do with magnanimity, optimism or even building a great country. It has everything to do hatred, pessimism and division.
Hollywood used to produce heroic tales that inspired audiences. Heroic tales can never come from woke politics .
Whereas classic heroism involves a protagonist standing against evil or impossible odds, wokeness takes that concept and makes evil incarnate the white male patriarchy, Christianity, America, and of course, capitalism. Since this is the reality, what does this tell you about the writers, directors and showrunners producing this propaganda?
It tells you these are angry, bitter people who have an agenda to create division in the minds of their viewers while alienating the core fanbase of the IP’s they are destroying. It also appears the practitioners of this commie agenda are intent on destroying the inspiration of the heroic archetype.
Is this the woke endgame in entertainment: destroying the very idea of classic American heroism and therefore, eliminating any escapism for the viewer? It sure seems so. Woke certainly isn’t about turning a profit, for how can a company make money if its goal is alienating the majority fan base of a once treasured IP? What do you think?
I’ll leave you with Trump’s own words. Language warning! Cued to 1:25.
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