So recently I’ve noticed what seems to me to be an uptick in the amount of serious-seeming griping about the quality of various movies, TV shows and books, which are generally acclaimed as being entertaining, and in some cases are award winning.
But nevertheless, you get people seriously bitching about the latest episode of *The Orville *as if it was some sort of serious science-fiction show with a crack team of writers and producers. It’s not… it’s a comedic science fiction drama that’s somewhere between Star Trek and a sitcom, and it’s kind of breaking new ground in that regard; most sci-fi shows aren’t nearly so comedy oriented, even if there are occasional jokes.
Or all the kerfluffle about “Bohemian Rhapsody”. It’s not historically accurate in places, but it’s entertaining. It has excellent performances, great costuming, etc… and it’s probably a more fun use of your two hours and fifteen minutes than most other stuff.
Or we get people who seem to have dramatically unrealistic expectations for others’ behavior. Not in the don’t commit major crimes and have integrity way, but who seem to think that anyone in Germany who didn’t actively protest the Nazi regime was somehow complicit. That seems like an awfully high bar. Or that everyone’s primary motivator should be the elimination of racial/sexual injustice, and everything else is secondary or we’re all racists and bigots.
Are these people suffering unrealistic expectations and are overly critical, or do they just like to bitch on the internet? I’m a little baffled; I don’t quite approach the world with the intent to pick it apart like this.