Comments on: Silent Night https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=silent-night If it ain't woke don't miss it Tue, 02 Jan 2024 06:45:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt S https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-2042 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 06:45:36 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-2042 Joel Kinnaman is outstanding as a red-blooded NASA astronaut in ‘For All Mankind’ on Apple TV.

It’s a science fiction series based on the premise that the Russians were the first to land on the moon in 1969. Ironically, this has the effect of spurring the American efforts, and consequently leads to much greater success in colonising/exploring of space.

I reckon Season 1 is not woke at all, as it is set in the 1960s, but a few woke elements do appear in subsequent series. Not enough to spoil it though.

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]]> By: M.K https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-2040 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:30:03 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-2040 In reply to M.K.

More Altered Carbon Woke points (courtesy of my husband, whose memory is much better than mine)
-Transhumanism / Genderbending
-False Utopia
-Romanticization of Islam
-Queer relationships and normalization of LGBT (pretty sure there’s polygamy/thresome at some point)
-Male Rape via drugging
-Multiple Girl Bosses
-Neo colonalism / Racism messaging
-Anti Male-Gaze and messages regarding sexulization

Overall Altered Carbon makes a stab at tying in all the general woke themes that are present in other cyberpunk shows/media however it lacks all of the counter signaling that shows it’s audience that these things should be viewed as negatives or the media as a cautionary tale. Altered Carbon portrays it’s messaging and themes as sincere and with little cynicism. It is entirely “what you see is what you get”.

Anyway, just figured I’d post the other points we remembered.

]]> By: M.K https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-2039 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:22:18 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-2039 In reply to James Carrick.

For sure, totally fair- maybe just something to keep in mind while linking woke (or woke-ish) media directly from based reviews in the future = ). If I had no experience with Altered Carbon, I would assume it was based since it was linked from a based review.
Regardless thanks for the response, and I am enjoying the site so far.

]]> By: James Carrick https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-2038 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 01:46:37 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-2038 In reply to M.K.

Thank you for your input. When we have available reviews, we link to them. Altered Carbon was released in 2018, and we turn 1 next month. So, our catalog of older films and programs is understandably thin.

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]]> By: M.K https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-2037 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 01:40:16 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-2037 While I agree with you that Joel Kinnamen is underrated, Altered Carbon is highly woke, and maybe instead of referring people directly to the Netflix page, you could refer them to your review of it (if there is one).
Woke points include:
-all the evil and “privileged” people are white
-interracial relationship
-high levels of diversity
-adding neo nazis, just cause.
-black girl-boss who’s also super smart and has the answer to everything
There’s probably more that I’m forgetting, but as a person who loved the imagery and watched it at release while I was significantly less bothered by woke, even at that point I found it too overt. Some people might want a heads up for the contents before watching. I do however fully agree that Kinnamen did a great job and he was the best part of the show by far.
Joel Kinnamen can be found in “The Killing” (also made by Netflix I think) which is considerably less woke (only thing I can think of off hand is the main character is a female cop/detective) and he does an excellent job in it.

]]> By: James Carrick https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-1951 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:50:49 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-1951 In reply to Kent.

I couldn’t find any instances of pop ups but I’ve made some changes that will hopefully help.

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]]> By: b https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-1945 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 01:09:53 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-1945 Well, at least it isn’t woke! Looking forward to a Migration review.

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]]> By: James Carrick https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-1944 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:29:09 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-1944 In reply to Kent.

Hmm. There shouldn’t be any new pop up ads right now. We’ll look into it. If you could provide us a with a screenshot, it would be exceptionally helpful. You can send it to contact@worthitorwoke.com

In the meantime, we invite you to consider our ads-free membership. The first month is free for the monthly membership and annual members get a vacation.https://worthitorwoke.com/membership-account/membership-levels/

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]]> By: Kent https://worthitorwoke.com/silent-night/#comment-1943 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:20:41 +0000 https://worthitorwoke.com/?p=13706#comment-1943 The new pop up ads on this website are ruining the user experience, I find it hard to click on anything

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