AstroV69

I remember back in 2015 there was a comment on a video for a Johnny Cash song that stated “Looks like a game ----- play” after a E3 2015 trailer that revealed Mass Effect Andromeda used a Johnny Cash song. I didn’t know if they were referring to the original trilogy or Andromeda. Andromeda did turn out to be more cringy though. The Andromeda characters felt more like college students than hardened soldiers, mercenaries, and intellectual scientists of the original trilogy. This looks like a generic game with a Marvel style story created by college aged people who are enthusiastic about social issues. While on the other hand this looks like a gritty space war military drama. I’ll admit when I first saw ME1 it looked a bit too cartoony for my tastes but I’d never say anything like that. Then one day I got tired of CoD and picked up a cheap copy of ME1 from a local GameStop after a friend begged me to play it. Since then narrative based games have my preference. ME OT, To The Moon, Valiant Hearts, etc. I ain’t going back to CoD ever again. I don’t know why I had that prejudice against sci fi in the first place. Perhaps American society before the 2010s conditioned people to conform. Society definitely seems more open to geek culture nowadays. I hope that ignoramus is enjoying Baldur's Gate 3 and/or Starfield right now.

Back during the 2000s it seemed like medieval fantasy shows and "Battlestar Galactica" were seen as shows only "People who live in basements" watched. Animation was seen as something that should either be a "kids thing" or raunchy adult comedy. Now we are getting stuff like this! Why wasn't society open minded about TV back then? Was it because CGI was less advanced? Was society more obsessed with Hollywood style materialism?

I wish we had shows like this on TV during the early 2010s. But sadly it seemed like people stopped dreaming of space and the future back during the early 2010s. I remember a speech by Neil Degrasse Tyson circulating throughout the internet at the time. Many sci fi fans were quite vocal about the lack of TV sci fi. https://gizmodo.com/why-we-need-more-space-adventures-5837047 https://www.impossiblepodcasts.com/2012/02/rayguns-and-rocket-ships-can-books-save.html https://ricochet.com/226027/archives/the-death-of-the-space-opera/ https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/06/mind-meld-has-space-opera-lost-its-luster/ https://practicalfreespirit.com/2011/09/06/to-infinity-and-beyond/ What happened? Did society become too materialistic to dream of an interstellar future as evidenced by the reality show boom? Hey life on Earth is good enough already, So why dream of a "Trek" future? Sadly when I was in high school during the mid 2010s I did not know anyone who said they dreamed of becoming an astronaut. I remember during college orientation a student memorably blurted out "I want to be rich!". Or is there only room for one big TV show and that show happened to be "Game of Thrones"? People can only be obsessed with one TV show at a time? I enjoyed both "Game of Thrones" and "The Expanse". I hope society will dream of space travel and the future although I think that is unlikely. I hope the next pop culture TV phenomenon is something with space travel in it.