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Fuck Project Hail Mary and Andy Weir, he’s an “anti-woke” piece of shit. I’ll never read or watch anything tied to his name.
Never heard anything about that, got some info/links?
https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1s39w4z/andy_weir_author_of_project_hail_mary_does_an/
He’s a “fiscal conservative” who criticises new Star Trek saying it’s “shit” and says his movies do good because he doesn’t do politics.
But most of me Star Trek is shit. I'm a Trek fan, but the post JJ era has been mostly bad.
Not reading the whole article but that pic makes me like him more... SciFi is fiction. An escape from reality. Maybe his books are successful because they help the readers do exactly that.
Disagree pretty hard. SciFi has always been a medium for exploring the philosophical and political. Every description of a future dystopia/utopia is social commentary; every alien race is a commentary on xenophobia or cultural exchange. Hell even his own books explore...
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themes of ecosystem collapse and humanity's response, which can't be anything but a political take in 2026.If you don't want politics in your books SciFi is probably the worst place to look. Someone should tell him to stick to... idk... character driven romance novels or something.
Oh dear god not the book tok crap
That's quite a different thing than being anti-woke, though. It is fair to criticize entertainment media for putting a political message before entertainment (not that I find only shooting and explosions very entertaining, but that is a different matter). It is not like he criticizes left political views themselves. Of course, it is also unreflected of him not to notice politics that persist in his own books, but if I boycott all media with someone involved who voiced an opinion different than my own, I will run out of books and suffocate in a bubble.
Right, I suspect this is voicing a much older consensus about effective storytelling and good art:
Given his filmography, it’s pretty clear Capra didn’t mean that politics should be avoided when telling a story, just that the story should come first. The idea is that any “message” a writer might convey will naturally be embedded in the stories they tell, whereas writers who attempt to construct a story around a particular message tend to fail at delivering either.
Anti-woke is a bold claim for doing a podcast during a press tour and saying he doesn’t do politics.
he did a stupid thing and should be called out for it.
Far from being anti woke, though
What stupid thing?
did an interview in the ccritical drinker podcast and gave them the perfect soundbites when he shat on the current generation star trek