this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
79 points (100.0% liked)
Slop.
864 readers
382 users here now
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No bigotry of any kind, including ironic bigotry.
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target federated instances' admins or moderators.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
From my perspective, you can write yourself into a corner when you're deciding that you're not going to be woke. You'll get some kind of safe Disney mainline Star Wars movie. You'll get some bing bang wahoo without a single quotable line. You're about to make the most stale, phoned in piece of vaporware in the franchise. Your plot has nowhere to go, nothing to deconstruct, no expectation to subvert. You're not James Cameron, YOU can't rehash the same world of blue people and have it be
each time. What? Is Bond just going to be literal advertising for whatever location and watch brand? Turns out the spy was MI6 and rogue again?
Safe is gray is boring is hollow. Woman bond could seduce differently and sneak into places differently. CPTSD Woman Bond could struggle to fight a villain who claims to be searching for a cure her malady. She has to struggle with whether her cause is worthwhile and her friends on the force have been threatening to unionize anyway. We don't know whether M is serious about shutting the whole thing down if they do it.
Boom! Drama, tension, and stakes. Intrigue about who this new Bond is with more pronounced problems that rhyme with what was already there. You don't even have to turn into Mission Impossible where the whole world is at stake and pray that causes more tension.
The interconnected world and observations about it are an incredible base for a fantasy setting. 99% of the time you'll run into something someone screeches about being woke about in a couple sentences doing it though.
Woke Bond would end up like the Tomb Raider remakes where what that character is and does is so un-uniteable with a concept of woke you'd get an "I'm Bond, James Bond, he/him" before he sexually assaults a nonbinary person