Entertainment Discourse Is Dead. Supergirl Proves It.

The discourse around the Supergirl movie proves something I’ve been saying for a long time — entertainment discourse is largely dead. And the core problem is that there’s a group of people who believe they have a monopoly on the truth. Maybe in the past they actually did. Those days are over.
Watch how it played out. People in our corner of the internet expressed gripes about the movie’s direction and how it was being promoted. The other side immediately wrote those criticisms off. And now those same people are coming out and voicing the exact same gripes themselves. The criticism was only illegitimate when it came from the “wrong” people.
It boils down to two things. They believe they’re the primary determinant — the ones who get to decide whether a movie or any entertainment piece is good or bad. And they don’t want to share hobbies with people they despise, so they write off everything those people say automatically. That’s why discourse is so broken right now.
This is exactly why I’ve said it a million times — mass appeal is over. You’re never getting it back. There are too many voices, too many trusted reviewers, too many options. No single group gets to dictate how everyone feels about a piece of entertainment anymore. And the harder they cling to that control, the more obvious it becomes that they’ve already lost it.