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<blockquote data-quote="hydrogonian" data-source="post: 977625" data-attributes="member: 389">I like the show, but the SJW pressure that the writers are under is apparent after the first season. Consequently, the first season was the best season. I can tell that they are trying to temper its effects as well, sometimes by making light of it and sometimes by keeping the concession brief, but the pressure is still there. In the second season, the show tried hard to inject women characters, two of which made two bad cameo jokes and were never heard from again. One woman, the punk-ish and super-skilled (of course) female engineer, was in for a few episodes and then was let go. The woman who replaced Peter Gregory is a poorly done autistic clone of autistic Peter Gregory (I've never personally met a high functioning autistic woman), and her character was, again, announced to be a logical insertion because she &quot;objectively had the best metrics&quot; or some similar skill based justification that the writers thought fit to announce. Unfortunately, the actor and writers couldn't come up with her own character. Then, in the last episode, they dipped into SJW race politics when the Dravidian looking prosecutor went on a white privilege and social justice rant in front of Bachman and Bighead.The show is by a guy, Mike Judge, who probably started out to mock, if only indirectly, SJWs by mocking a corner of the culture that SJWs like to imagine is their own (in spite of not a small number of coders, IRL, probably being more libertarian like Gilfoyle).In the end, the show is probably a victim of its own success in that SJW / beta types think the show is about and for them, and thus probably direct social pressure toward the show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hydrogonian, post: 977625, member: 389"] I like the show, but the SJW pressure that the writers are under is apparent after the first season. Consequently, the first season was the best season. I can tell that they are trying to temper its effects as well, sometimes by making light of it and sometimes by keeping the concession brief, but the pressure is still there. In the second season, the show tried hard to inject women characters, two of which made two bad cameo jokes and were never heard from again. One woman, the punk-ish and super-skilled (of course) female engineer, was in for a few episodes and then was let go. The woman who replaced Peter Gregory is a poorly done autistic clone of autistic Peter Gregory (I've never personally met a high functioning autistic woman), and her character was, again, announced to be a logical insertion because she "objectively had the best metrics" or some similar skill based justification that the writers thought fit to announce. Unfortunately, the actor and writers couldn't come up with her own character. Then, in the last episode, they dipped into SJW race politics when the Dravidian looking prosecutor went on a white privilege and social justice rant in front of Bachman and Bighead. The show is by a guy, Mike Judge, who probably started out to mock, if only indirectly, SJWs by mocking a corner of the culture that SJWs like to imagine is their own (in spite of not a small number of coders, IRL, probably being more libertarian like Gilfoyle). In the end, the show is probably a victim of its own success in that SJW / beta types think the show is about and for them, and thus probably direct social pressure toward the show. [/QUOTE]

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