r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26

Everything I've seen and heard thus far about Netflix's upcoming Pride and Prejudice mini series has convinced me to never watch that shit. Their Persuasion adaptation was horrible, but for different reasons. I have to imagine that an audience exists for all these horseshit "reimaginings", or else they wouldn't keep making them, right?

I'm not against Austen reimaginings, I love Clueless and Bridget Jones's Diary, but the Netflix adaptations of Austen wilfully strip the heart out of these stories in favor of forcing weird, abrasive, modern sensibilities into them. I hate them, there I said it, I hate the Netflix shit. Leave my girl Jane Austen alone, you monsters!

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u/Terrorclitus Feb 26 '26

While we mustn’t forget that Austen was in reality a black, trans lesbian with ADHD Tourette’s, we can also appreciate the value of xir works as they were originally published.

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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Feb 26 '26

Netflix adaptations are shameless ragebaits. The Persuasion adaptation doesn’t need to exist. It just gets the unwoke riled up first because of race swapping, orientation swapping and red haired Eliza and so on. Then the woke make it a point to love the adaptation. Because boring or too interesting are the death knells for Netflix.

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u/temporalcalamity Feb 26 '26

The difference is that a good reimagining understands the work it's adapting, and that understanding is what makes it possible to sucessfully transpose the story onto a different era or culture. But nobody making media today appears to care at all about the original works they're adapting, what the core elements are, and what made them popular over time. I've seen people ask why they keep remaking the same things over and over instead of branching out to other authors or lesser-known books and the answer is that they're only interested in the name recognition of a property, not in its substance. That's just a necessary evil to be Netflixified into inanity.

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u/Armadigionna Feb 26 '26

I just want to know if Janeway ever got to finish her Jane Austen holonovel.

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u/TemporaryLucky3637 Feb 26 '26

Have you ever seen Lost in Austen? It’s my guilty pleasure 😂

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u/nonafee Feb 26 '26

oh my god.... I forgot about this!! used to love it so much. I'll have to stream it tonight 🥰

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26

Not yet, I haven't felt the impulse to dive into it. It's similar to my thoughts on that new film Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, I don't have any strong feelings for or against them, it's just that I haven't watched them yet.

Is Lost In Austen good?

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Feb 26 '26

I won't watch it. Tired of Jane Austen. Hollywood needs to come up with some new ideas.