YouTuber Greg Owen has identified the core problem plaguing modern television in his viral video “The 7 Deadly Sins of Millennial Writing.” Owen’s analysis, using Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as his primary example, explains why contemporary shows feel exhausting, emotionally hollow, and instantly forgettable.
It's a malady that stretches way past Hollywood. Shallow rules, substance drools. Conversations in threads like this one are quite refreshing. The audience knows how bad it is. The showrunners haven't a clue.
Excellent article. I dislike it when characters in pre-modern settings use late 20th Century or 21st Century slang. I once started reading a fantasy short story in a Medieval setting where a guardsman said “Cool it!”, a phrase I associate with the 1960s Counter Culture. Totally knocked me out of immersion and I put the story down.
One red flag for me is “Daddy Issues”. I always look at how a writer treats fathers and other male authority figures. Whenever you see Daddy Issues, you can assume the writer has loaded lots of other emotional baggage into the story as well.
Great video! Also see an absolute banger of a video about this same thing:
https://youtu.be/8ynCVmw5AWk?si=B6xP05h6hPHiOmEj
This was the one where I fully realized that Hollywood was well and truly in a death spiral.
I think his analysis pretty much nails it. Audience apathy is what's going to finally end this train ride.
It's a malady that stretches way past Hollywood. Shallow rules, substance drools. Conversations in threads like this one are quite refreshing. The audience knows how bad it is. The showrunners haven't a clue.
Excellent article. I dislike it when characters in pre-modern settings use late 20th Century or 21st Century slang. I once started reading a fantasy short story in a Medieval setting where a guardsman said “Cool it!”, a phrase I associate with the 1960s Counter Culture. Totally knocked me out of immersion and I put the story down.
One red flag for me is “Daddy Issues”. I always look at how a writer treats fathers and other male authority figures. Whenever you see Daddy Issues, you can assume the writer has loaded lots of other emotional baggage into the story as well.
Oh- so it’s THEIR fault?
I don't know? Someone is throwing money at these creators of slop. What is the agenda behind it? Depth must be destroyed by shallowness.