I actually see Seth MacFarlane as a (mostly) decent person, with much of the humor in Family Guy being the fault of postmodernism and irony melting American brains. Family Guy makes a lot of trashy jokes, but I think the intent of them is to laugh at American culture rather than whatever stereotypes they’re joking about. I even think he’s kind of moved past it, since he’s essentially just been leveraging Family Guy just to get to make his Star Trek show.
Idk, I’ve learned to set aside people’s more problematic aspects as long as they kick their heels in where it really matters. Standing with the writers every time, even back in 2007 when it caused Family Guy to get entirely dropped by Fox. This isn’t even him just doing it because he had nothing to lose. He almost lost Family Guy over this. I will almost always respect people putting their money where their mouth is.
Also, Family Guy started up over 20 years ago, when MacFarlane was I assume in his 20s. People can do a lot of maturing in that time. I know if you took what I said/did 20 years ago and held that against me…
Actually older Family Guy was much better on social issues than modern FG is sometimes.
Compare Season 2’s episode where Brian is a good loving friend to his gay cousin Jasper to Season 8’s episode where Brian vomits continuously for 30 seconds after he finds out he slept with a trans woman.
It’s good, pirate it. Like many other Star Trek shows, the first season is kinda hit and miss. But it just keeps getting better, and the third season is excellent.
I actually see Seth MacFarlane as a (mostly) decent person, with much of the humor in Family Guy being the fault of postmodernism and irony melting American brains. Family Guy makes a lot of trashy jokes, but I think the intent of them is to laugh at American culture rather than whatever stereotypes they’re joking about. I even think he’s kind of moved past it, since he’s essentially just been leveraging Family Guy just to get to make his Star Trek show.
Idk, I’ve learned to set aside people’s more problematic aspects as long as they kick their heels in where it really matters. Standing with the writers every time, even back in 2007 when it caused Family Guy to get entirely dropped by Fox. This isn’t even him just doing it because he had nothing to lose. He almost lost Family Guy over this. I will almost always respect people putting their money where their mouth is.
Also, Family Guy started up over 20 years ago, when MacFarlane was I assume in his 20s. People can do a lot of maturing in that time. I know if you took what I said/did 20 years ago and held that against me…
Actually older Family Guy was much better on social issues than modern FG is sometimes.
Compare Season 2’s episode where Brian is a good loving friend to his gay cousin Jasper to Season 8’s episode where Brian vomits continuously for 30 seconds after he finds out he slept with a trans woman.
Uhhg, fuk.
The Federation in his Star Trek is called the Union and it allies with robot space Haiti to fight against transphobia.
what the fuck that sounds cool as hell
It’s good, pirate it. Like many other Star Trek shows, the first season is kinda hit and miss. But it just keeps getting better, and the third season is excellent.