I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?

  • TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org
    4·
    11 months ago

    TNG had some pretty misogynistic and racist bits, though.

    Lower Decks is a delightful show with the intelligence of TNG and the inclusiveness of Our Flag Means Death.

      • FakeGreekGirlEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        The episode “Code of Honor” was fucking awful. IIRC, even the producers have apologized for that one.

        • NoStressyJessieEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yeah… I suppose it’s been a while since I’ve watched them with my eyes instead of my ears, so I just queued it up. Why did they decide to cast the ligonians like that 👀? I knew it wasn’t a good one, but jeez. Anyway, it’s like the 4th episode of the whole series, and considered the 2nd worst piece of Star Trek in total.

          • FakeGreekGirlEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I read that when the episode was pitched, it was going to be lizard aliens with a society similar to feudal Japan. Somewhere along the line, it turned into… that.

      • NoStressyJessieEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I was waiting to see, because my nostalgia probably blinds me, but I know it’s 80’s Star Trek. If I had to guess in the misogyny, it would probably be that the outfits for women are completely different than the standard issue uniform everyone else wears. In the first episode they had one guy wearing a Skant, then you basically only see them on women a couple times, then the women lose their brains because they gained cleavage, and lose cleavage to gain brains.

        I really don’t have a guess on racism though. As far as I knew, Star Trek was always ahead of the curve on the round of race. William Shatner for all his problems intentionally botched every alternate take of the scene where he kissed Uhara to force them to include the first televised interracial kiss. They even had one episode in OG Star Trek where a race of half back half white people were fighting with the half white half black folks pointing out the absurdity.