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Cake day: December 11th, 2024

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  • nothing will come close to the cultural impact that the original had.

    That’s part of the reason why I probably wouldn’t recommend old trek first to somebody. We don’t have the benefit of being able to go back to the cultural moment of the '60s Trek.

    I compare it to how Wizard of Oz is a great movie, but you can’t really experience the transition to color that happened in the movie the same way someone in 1939 did. Plenty of TV shows were still in black and white all the way into the '60s.










  • LGBT people are something like 10-20% of the population.

    It appears to be 5.5% of the population.

    The reason studios put LGBT content in movies and games is that a lot of people in the real world, aka their customers, are LGBT.

    If their population were small, disproportionate representation can still have a positive impact for awareness. That being said, I think a big reason for the representation is the percentage of people in the arts that is LGBT is greater than the general population. It would be tough making content and looking in the eyes of so many creatives while not including characters like them in stories.

    Side note:

    Maybe it’s not too realistic to have a bunch of out queer characters in a drama set in Elizabethan England.

    All the recent period pieces I’ve seen have LGBT characters. I’m going to use this as a moment to advertise My Lady Jane. It’s not an entirely accurate depiction of the story of Lady Jane Grey (for obvious reasons), but it was an entertaining show.