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Starfleet Academy actor Karim Diane lashes out at fans, saying the show is intentionally a "middle finger" toward those who are not interested in identity politics: “I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this: Star Trek has always been woke, and what is the alternative to being woke? Sleep? [Laughs] Cuz I’m not tired. “ “Being a part of this franchise has honestly felt like putting up a big middle finger to every racist, homophobic and sexist idea that tries to limit who gets to belong in the future. And even if we only had one season to share that message? I’d be proud. But we don’t. We have two. Two full seasons. Twenty hours of telling people: hey you, you belong here, and that is something to celebrate.” Is this attitude from the cast and crew why the show is failing?

No actor should be paid 100 million for one role. No one. The fact that Marvel fired its entire visual creative staff to justify this incompetent spending is flat out disgusting behavior.

George R.R. Martin on how film and TV adaptations make the story worse: "Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and “make them their own.”   It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, or… well, anyone. No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and “improve” on it.   “The book is the book, the film is the film,” they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound.  Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though.  Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse." Is he right?