I was listening to a movie podcast the other day, and the hosts were blathering on about how much they love the new Star Wars movies, specifically Episodes 7 and 8. This was before Episode 9 came out in theaters - I haven't heard the hosts nerding out about Star Wars much since then.
It was strange, though. I remember not -disliking- Episodes 7 and 8. They weren't the complete, raging, clown-show-on-fire shit hurricanes of the prequel trilogies. But as time goes on, my memory insists that there was nothing there, in the Disney films. They were marionette shows, signifying nothing.
The podcast hosts, for instance, raved on about how much they like the little old yellow alien lady. I can't remember her name, and basically I refuse to believe that she has one. Her planet was bland and irrelevant. She had slightly less character than a stop sign. Her contribution to the plot could have been delivered by a fortune cookie.
I feel much the same about Poe and Flynn. Finn? It doesn't matter. In my memory, they are Generic Character Substitute Products.
(There was some kind of core, some kind of prima materia lurking in the prequels, which is what made them so frustrating and fascinating. Lucas couldn't seem to figure out how to dig down into the story's core, or else actively opposed doing so.)
So my question becomes: Are the podcast hosts idiots about particular things? This happens to all of us, but especially to movie critics.
Actually, in some cases, they are. A couple of years ago, I believe when Galaxy's Edge first opened, someone said the quiet part out loud and blew the lid off the whole thing. I think it was people from pop culture rag Collider, who were doing a Star Wars-specific spin-off podcast that did nothing but tongue-bathe Disney Star Wars. If you've ever seen the Red Letter Media skit "Nerd Crew", it was basically like that, only more obnoxious. Well, one of the hosts was butt hurt because they weren't invited to the opening of Galaxy's Edge on Disney's dime despite doing "so much for them" and he basically did everything short of admit that they had been getting kick-backs from Disney the entire time, up to and including free passes to the Star Wars movie premiers, free passes to Disney, so on and so forth. So, this idiot goes out there, outs himself, outs Collider, and outs the entire "nerd podcast" scene as, yes, being paid shills.
It instigated a period of digging on the part of 4chan's weaponized autism division but they pretty much uncovered that a lot of these podcast and publications may not be getting paid to promote and praise new content from Star Wars, Marvel, DC, basically any big brand or IP, but they certainly get kick-backs and perks and I'm sure more than a few did get paid. Basically, if the podcast, publication, blog, what have you, is specifically dedicated to a certain IP or brand, has a large following, and especially if they are tied to a larger publication like Collider, Gizmodo, Kotaku, so on and so forth, it's an open secret that they are being showered with free gifts (and a little cash) to lavish whatever they're hawking with excess praise and never say a bad thing about it. Now, this isn't to say they aren't idiots - they are, because they definitely like what they're talking about - but even if they don't think the new Star Wars movies are as perfect as they say, they're basically obligated to not say so to keep the Disney goodie train running. In my research on these topics, I found a lot of very small, independent podcasters, writers, and video content creators who are happy to brown nose Disney for free without any sort of return on investment aside from yapping about their pop culture sloppa of choice, but the bigger names in the pop culture blogosphere are absolutely paid off.
I'm not sure where the Blank Check podcast falls in the podcast ecosystem (their focus is on movies in general, rather than a specific IP), but they also carried a lot of water for the MCU, right up until "The Marvels" forced them to admit the wheels had come off the bus. On the other hand, they have been lukewarm at best about Disney's live action remakes.
So I still can't decide if they're getting paid, or if they're just hardcore blue-pill movie watchers.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
I was listening to a movie podcast the other day, and the hosts were blathering on about how much they love the new Star Wars movies, specifically Episodes 7 and 8. This was before Episode 9 came out in theaters - I haven't heard the hosts nerding out about Star Wars much since then.
It was strange, though. I remember not -disliking- Episodes 7 and 8. They weren't the complete, raging, clown-show-on-fire shit hurricanes of the prequel trilogies. But as time goes on, my memory insists that there was nothing there, in the Disney films. They were marionette shows, signifying nothing.
The podcast hosts, for instance, raved on about how much they like the little old yellow alien lady. I can't remember her name, and basically I refuse to believe that she has one. Her planet was bland and irrelevant. She had slightly less character than a stop sign. Her contribution to the plot could have been delivered by a fortune cookie.
I feel much the same about Poe and Flynn. Finn? It doesn't matter. In my memory, they are Generic Character Substitute Products.
(There was some kind of core, some kind of prima materia lurking in the prequels, which is what made them so frustrating and fascinating. Lucas couldn't seem to figure out how to dig down into the story's core, or else actively opposed doing so.)
So my question becomes: Are the podcast hosts idiots about particular things? This happens to all of us, but especially to movie critics.
Or were they getting paid to hype up the movies?
Actually, in some cases, they are. A couple of years ago, I believe when Galaxy's Edge first opened, someone said the quiet part out loud and blew the lid off the whole thing. I think it was people from pop culture rag Collider, who were doing a Star Wars-specific spin-off podcast that did nothing but tongue-bathe Disney Star Wars. If you've ever seen the Red Letter Media skit "Nerd Crew", it was basically like that, only more obnoxious. Well, one of the hosts was butt hurt because they weren't invited to the opening of Galaxy's Edge on Disney's dime despite doing "so much for them" and he basically did everything short of admit that they had been getting kick-backs from Disney the entire time, up to and including free passes to the Star Wars movie premiers, free passes to Disney, so on and so forth. So, this idiot goes out there, outs himself, outs Collider, and outs the entire "nerd podcast" scene as, yes, being paid shills.
It instigated a period of digging on the part of 4chan's weaponized autism division but they pretty much uncovered that a lot of these podcast and publications may not be getting paid to promote and praise new content from Star Wars, Marvel, DC, basically any big brand or IP, but they certainly get kick-backs and perks and I'm sure more than a few did get paid. Basically, if the podcast, publication, blog, what have you, is specifically dedicated to a certain IP or brand, has a large following, and especially if they are tied to a larger publication like Collider, Gizmodo, Kotaku, so on and so forth, it's an open secret that they are being showered with free gifts (and a little cash) to lavish whatever they're hawking with excess praise and never say a bad thing about it. Now, this isn't to say they aren't idiots - they are, because they definitely like what they're talking about - but even if they don't think the new Star Wars movies are as perfect as they say, they're basically obligated to not say so to keep the Disney goodie train running. In my research on these topics, I found a lot of very small, independent podcasters, writers, and video content creators who are happy to brown nose Disney for free without any sort of return on investment aside from yapping about their pop culture sloppa of choice, but the bigger names in the pop culture blogosphere are absolutely paid off.
None of that surprises me.
I'm not sure where the Blank Check podcast falls in the podcast ecosystem (their focus is on movies in general, rather than a specific IP), but they also carried a lot of water for the MCU, right up until "The Marvels" forced them to admit the wheels had come off the bus. On the other hand, they have been lukewarm at best about Disney's live action remakes.
So I still can't decide if they're getting paid, or if they're just hardcore blue-pill movie watchers.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
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