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My Favorite Scifi Serial

The Wokeness
Lets touch on this since it'll be interesting to dive into it through the lens of a 1990s show. You will be greeted with some "girl power" moments in the first few episodes, so you may think this is an angle that will play out often in the series. It is not, and when it is, it is tasteful.

Stargate comes from a time when women were preaching equality, not equity. In that vein, Captain Samantha Carter will play the role of a female integrating into a mostly men-dominated world. The show will touch on it at times. However, get prepared for a different narrative and a different message than you are used too.

SG1 preaches comradery, understanding, trust and bonding between sexes. It also makes fun of Carter at times, exposing a few of her own biases. It's such a refreshing take, yet watching this I feel so sad about how things have turned for the worst.

In a panel she did a long time ago, actress Amanda Tapping also shared some heartwarming thoughts about "strong female characters". When asked about her role, from a modern angry female, she responded along the lines of "You must remember that it is men like Brad Wright who stuck out their necks to help forward our cause". The days when men weren't evil and women didn't hate men, what a throwback.

The Story
SG1 is bar-none the single best scifi serial. Just watch it. Screw Star Trek or Star Wars, this is where it's at ;)

Very hit or miss, high highs, low lows.

This one is going to take a few words to unpack, so bear with me. First off, wokeness.

The Wokeness
The show shovels feminist garbage down your throat every time it can. The main character is truly unlikeable, since in the feminists' 10 commandments, a women shall not be nice. Silo is filled with gender-reversal and so on. Men take a backseat to "strong independent women" etc.

*However*, there is an attempt here to steer off the mary-sue trope. Sometimes it succeeds. The main character has flaws and is once or twice, helped by a man. Heresy! the feminists cry, eyes filled with bitch-tears.

There is a single mention of a gay couple during the show, and crazy enough, I wished they delved deeper. Analyzing how a siloed culture would react to same-sex couples. For ex, on the one hand you might want to encourage making kids... But on the other, limited mouths to feed... Anyhow, a non-propagandist exploration of that topic would've been interesting, if done right.

If you are sensitive to wokeness, this will be too much for you. But it isn't as bad as other shows, there was a visible attempt to tone it down. Pulling it back 1 or 2 notches more would've been perfect for me, allowing me to get immersed and forget that at its core, this is a feminist propaganda piece, not art.

The Show
Silo is at times brilliant, with good acting and twists, but more often than not quite dull and sluggish. I've already talked about the main character being hard to like, others aren't much better either. I'd say you have to really push through the mid-section, to enjoy a superb last 2-3 episodes.

In case you want to suffer through it, the show raises many questions and it *does* answer them. You'll get a great payoff at the end, leaving you satisfied and interested for more. Whether I can survive the wokeness of another season remains to be seen.

In terms of the setting, everything is very surface level. The world and culture remains vastly unexplored, or simply identical to modern life. The show breaks its own internal logic at times, pulling you out of it. Silly scenes also lower the impact of the overall drama.

Visually, the silo is too clean, looks unlived in and artificial. The decors are repetitive copy-past CGI and only serve as a facade. I understand budget constraints, but this show would've done well with more "practical stuff" thrown around on sets. Shadows and darkness aren't utilized well. You never get that sense of mystery, triggering your imagination to dream about how it would be like to live in a silo, or what lies in the hidden spots of this vast underground city.

Overall, this is a toss up. Flip a coin, watch a few episodes and see if it's your jam. You WILL be rewarded by a great ending, but you'll probably hate the main character (by design).

Netflix being Netflix

As every piece of "art" this guys create, there's always forced inclusion, LGBTI+ ludicrous side stories nobody asked for, and other amenities from the always vigilant social warriors. Watchable, if you fast forward the woke parts.

Average 70s show

Woke free overall

Excellent movie, but very mild woke

As another reviewer mentioned, mild SJW Anti-White " Evil Aryan German " "Hans Gruber" content, but great action scenes! This is still better than 99.9999% of movies today!

Horrible

The worst Marvel show ever! Go woke, go broke!

White men are depicted as either bad or mindless robots. It takes a cloned female mind to make the mindless white male robot better. This show’s creator let overboard diversity quotas guide their hiring practice, along with minorities superiority complex agendas.

Basketball people

Not woke at all.

DEI Hires Everywhere

Terrible remake. Gay couple for no reason that is shown half naked in bed as much as possible. No straight white men anywhere. All but one of the cenobites are now female for some reason. Actors that play them are DEI hires, 1 black, 1 asian, 1 'non-binary" nonsense. While pinhead is described as 'modified to the point of appearing genderless" in the original books he is also referred to as the Hell Priest not Priestess clearly implying male so the casting is obviously gender swapping. The new pinhead has no presence and isn't menacing or terrifying at all. Story doesn't hold to the original either and is heavily butchered. None of the characters are likable at all. The fx somehow look cheap and fake and the original 1987 film looked better. Only watch this if you are curious and a huge hellraiser fan that just has to see them all otherwise pass.

Painfully Unfunny.

A group of 4 obnoxious annoying Asian female friends being racist and sexist while pretending everyone else is racist especially white people. Nothing about this is funny. It just tries to be as shocking and crude as possible. These are some of the worst people you can imagine. Was hoping there group would just get hit by a bus and the movie would end. Pass!!

Anti-White Woke

White role reversal. Violent drug dealer is white. 2 thieves that steal from him are white. Incompetent cop is white. Older racist white man is a complete idiot who starts shouting and jumping around that he won a 156 million dollar lottery at night in a rundown convenience store. Moron police officer opens fire while a civilian with his back turned is clearly in the line of fire. The white drug dealer does his best ghetto slang sound like black as possible while the black couple and brown store owner speak perfect English and are well dressed and friendly. Pass!

A few things to keep in mind before this season premieres in Jan 2024

The following only applies to season 4

The season is written and directed by Issa López, who is a bisexual woman and a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and representation in the media34.

The season explores the themes of identity, trauma, and belonging in relation to the LGBTQ+ community, especially in a remote and conservative environment like Alaska. The show also features some LGBTQ+ supporting characters, such as Carol (Jenna Kanell), a queer and gender non-conforming support group member, and Dr. Alice Walker (Fiona Shaw), a transgender psychologist1 .
The season also tackles the issue of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, especially Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, who face higher rates of hate crimes, sexual assault, and murder in Alaska and other parts of the US . The show aims to raise awareness and empathy for the struggles and resilience of the LGBTQ+ community in the Arctic.