I think RLM is too subtle in how they hit you over the head with their view that this kind of stuff is mainly cynical marketing tactics from giant studios most of the time and not actual diversity/empowerment/etc. let alone ones that work within the plot/characters/etc. Like they mention, someone calling this an inspiration for seven year old girls, a character who has existed for 70+ years, fuck that, but this version where the Amazonian Goddess charges through the TRENCHES of the Western Front of World War I killing people is
not really that vehicle. Maybe focusing on the director is, but the film is still more for the older fans like most licensed properties of its type.
When they touch on politics or just any general reception of films that gets this counterreaction its mostly in a "okay, yeah it's with girls/has diversity...BUT WHY other than BECAUSE?" And they're mainly pointing out that's not enough to make a film good or justify it, in the case of Ghostbusters and Power Rangers they didn't like it and that stuff added nothing and in Ghostbusters case they throw back to that women being funny thing because there's no reason it can't necessarily work, in the case of Wonder Woman they liked it and it also didn't distract from it except as Mike notes after he looked at the other reactions from people and that's when he hit the disconnect. Jay didn't so he was more positive overall and less thinking about that stuff. And that's usually how this goes, Mike seems to get sucked into the commentary surrounding the films this happens to and complains about it because he sees so much of it as cynical marketing garbage and I think in some ways is seriously trying to figure it out to his determent. Jay is more content to set all that aside.
GAFfers like I quoted seem to have that everything is grand political statement mentality. There must be some greater signal to it than just Mike bitching because that's what he does. Especially if they've already got all the alt-right gamergator detectors running and they've just taken out fifteen suspected alt-righters in three other threads by exposing their post histories.
The funny part is if they completely ignored all of that and just talked about it as a good superhero movie without mentioning any of the SOCIAL COMMENTARY around it's marketing and stuff, they'd get shit on for that too. "How could they completely overlook the fact that this is the first female superhero and treat it like any other movie?!?!?"
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also that episode ending was amazing
