I am not a teen.

  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    So I’ve noticed that there are a lot of streaming movies and TV shows that match a lot of these patterns:

    • IP is announced. Adaptation of extremely popular series with existing fanbase
    • IP is billed as “adult” with “mature themes”
    • Producer/Director goes on a podcast and compares IP to “Game of Thrones” a few weeks before release. Said comparison treats GoT as an ideal to aspire to instead of a cautionary tale.
    • Producer/Director also insults existing fanbase for some reason
    • IP is previewed to critics, gets amazing reviews
    • IP comes out, and gets high streaming numbers day one
    • Writing ends up being terrible
    • Plot ends up being surface level, with all the subtly of the original adaptation cut out. This somehow is true now matter how basic the source material may seem
    • Acting is terrible. There is at least one race swapped character, who they also butcher from a writing perspective
    • VFX is terrible, and expensive scenes are cut out
    • Costumes are terrible to the point where everything looks like shitty cosplay
    • There’s a few violent scenes that are extremely gratuitous. VFX and writing are so bad that it’s comical instead of jarring
    • There are a few random sex scenes thrown in. The sex scenes detract from the pacing of the story, and are blatantly thrown in so producers can brag about them
    • Sex scenes tend to focus on the female form. If men are involved, they all are hairless and look like boy band members
    • If it is a gay sex scene, it blatantly written by women and for women with an extremely limited knowledge of men as a whole
    • In a few days, the Internet erupts with needlessly vitriolic discourse about said IP.
    • A year post release, the show is essentially forgotten.

    In that context it’s no surprise younger people don’t like sex scenes. It’s basically a canary for a low quality show and extreme toxicity.