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It seems like as entertainment runs out of novel ideas, they are also running into how their ideas of entertainment generated, or at least gave the impression of generating, the things they now bemoan.
A couple of instances that shed light.
First off, when they happened at the time I celebrated it, and then it was forgotten, and now people are revisiting it like they are discovering it for the first time.
And the 'it' I'm talking about is putting the tradtitional stories in more diverse hands.
The first was Eddie Murphy making movies about successful, often hyper-successful black people without self-congratulation or shining a light. Coming to America, Boomerang, Distinguished Gentleman, and even later family friendly fare like Nutty Professor and Doctor Doolittle, he presented black thriving as the default, black normalcy even nerdiness as normal.
Then Blade with Wesley Snipes as a superhero.
Then Kill Bill with a female as a lone avenging badass.
Now Hollywood 'repurposes' scripts with diversity as the prominent express and blatant intent, and look to celebrate how much progress they've made.
They think that unless they do it purposefully and loudly, the rubes won't get it.
Then second, the thing with misogyny and bigotry and curmudgeonliness being the center of sitcom fare. They like to think that they write these things because that's what the appetite is in the society. But it seems more to me that these traits are simply easier to write in their heuristic of conflict and resolution and story arcs. They never figured out how to generate entertaining fare from people being decent, and they blame the audience for not being receptive to their nonexistent effort to do so.
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