Mastodawn

#QuestionOfTheDay what's a work that started off doing something that's not actually what the work is about or turned out to be but that you wish it had stuck with?

to give examples of what I mean: the anime Street Fighter 2 V started as a travelogue of Ken and Ryu touring different countries to learn different cultures and fighting styles before very quickly becoming Street Fighter 2 and inevitably having M. Bison take over the narrative and be about fighting him and I wish they had stuck with being a travelogue

Another I've heard are ppl who wish the bait and switch of S1 Babylon 5 didn't happen & it stayed as a goofy Trek episode of the week knockoff instead of LotR in space

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Yora 5d ago

@ami_angelwings Star Trek Deep Space Nine immediately comes to mind.

Season 1 and especially season 2 and 3 was very big about the Bajorans trying to rebuild their ruined world while their hearts are still at war, and Cardassians trying to reform and democratize their fascist state. And the Federation being at a loss about what to do with the Maquis.
And by season 5 they fully committed to "throw all of this out, lets make a giant galactic war epic instead!"

Booo...

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Ami Angelwings 5d ago

@yora OH I COMPLETELY AGREE, I'm one of the few who really loved early season DS9 and the politics and stuff and I hated when it became yet another 90s invasion arc (90s really loved their invasion arcs, Yuuzhan Vong, nWo, Dominion, Kromaggs, etc)

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Ami Angelwings 5d ago

@yora it's also funny how DS9 wasn't a response to 9/11 (that was Enterprise) but it feels like it is because they got attacked by an implacable exotic enemy who literally hated them for their freedoms and where the good guys were "forced" by the threat to do bad things to win much like the US framed itself as being forced to torture people etc post 9/11

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Yora

@ami_angelwings Starship Troopers is my favorite movie about the US invasion of Afghanistan from the 90s.

Those attacks did not come out of nowhere. People had seen it brewing for years and didn't have to be strategic analysts to know exactly how it would play out. The cancer was already present in American society, and the military-political machine on auto-pilot.