Nah, 9/11 killed the detached and enui filled stories from gen x office workers about how boring and fake and easy their lives were like The Matrix (1999) and Fight Club (1999). After that it either got cheesy/didactic/preachy/patriotic like Transformers/AVP/iRobot or Dark and Edgy like The Bourne Trilogy, Dark Knight, Children of Men, etc.
Utopian scifi was long dead at this point, Star Trek was killed with the Soviet Union.
optimistic SF was killed by 9/11
Optimistic SF died with the Soviet Union. Cyberpunk is the only future reality now, atleast for Americans.
We’re not even gonna get cyberpunk, we’re gonna get children of men from global ecological collapses and microplastics and shit. We’re so cooked
That’s the end game for cyberpunk as well. All Cyberpunk worlds I’ve seen are heavily polluted undergoing ecological collapse.
Best case is Wall-E but the fat blob people are very racist
Nah, 9/11 killed the detached and enui filled stories from gen x office workers about how boring and fake and easy their lives were like The Matrix (1999) and Fight Club (1999). After that it either got cheesy/didactic/preachy/patriotic like Transformers/AVP/iRobot or Dark and Edgy like The Bourne Trilogy, Dark Knight, Children of Men, etc.
Utopian scifi was long dead at this point, Star Trek was killed with the Soviet Union.
I dunno, Ds9 is really popular and highly regarded.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine Runtime : January 3, 1993, to June 2, 1999
It was good but not utopian at any point and if i get a dollar for every time i heard “latinum” there i would have more dollars than i ever had.
DS9 is also not utopian or the same tone as the originals
Hollywood has never really liked portraying aliens as benevolent beings.
Arrival was pretty good on this, one of the only I can think of