This is why I roll my eyes every time I see some smug person write a post or make a comment about how they are above the "proship and anti discourse", or they are "an adult with a job".
Well, how old do you think Bryan Fuller is in this image???
People don't realize that this 'proship/anti discourse' also exists in the industry. How many times have we heard about creators wanting to write/do something, but the studio interferes?
I try not to talk about my personal/professional life, but this is what happened to me [and the reason why I---as a full grown adult---rant and rave all the time about the proship/anti 'discourse']: I went to an art college (I know; huge regret).
We had to write a small script and turn it into a storyboard.
We submitted our stories.
I was called to the dean's office where my storyboard class teacher was waiting. I was given an ultimatum: Change your story, or get expelled without option of readmittance.
The story in question was about God and Lucifer having a homosexual relationship, they get into a lover's quarrel, and God throws Lucifer out of His Kingdom (the irony of the situation I was in lmao).
I was particularly "young and dumb" then, so I chose to change my story to something wholesome.
I am still mad at myself about it years later. I wish I had fought. I wish I had gotten thrown out of His Kingdom in order to be true to myself and tell the story I wanted to tell. I wish I didn't submit to appeasing some conservative assholes.
After I graduated, I went to a film school and continued education. I had that same script with me and told the story to a teacher I became close with. She asked to see the script and worked with me to make a full-length project.
That school was great. They were constantly saying, "But how can you make it worse for the characters?" They encouraged upping the ante, artistic freedom, while simultaneously educating how you *will* run into challenges getting certain things produced and passed by executives thanks to residual Hays Code garbage.
That is why, even as an old ass adult, I will never shut the fuck up about being anti-censorship.
You're an adult with a job so you don't care about proship/anti discourse? You think it is all just children screaming about nonsense? Fine.
Go to your 9-to-5. Come home exhausted and sit down to watch your favorite movie or play your favorite video game to relax. Get excited for the sequels.
Then get disappointed when those sequels suck because they lack any and all substance, character development, conflict, and engaging plots.
