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You are missing causality.
Why does the writing suck? The writing sucks because they were so focused on empowering a female lead that they skipped over the character development part and went straight to the end of the development arc.
They didn't want her to look weak. So...she was great at everything.
That's woke.
Why did the Little Mermaid suck? Because for some stupid reason they replaced yet another white character with a black one. They are rumored to be doing this again with Hercules.
Cleopatra sucked. Nobody wanted to watch it. Why? Because it's ridiculous. And by nature of "ma diversity and representation" you managed to piss off the entire country of Egypt.
The female Ghostbusters was woke because they thought it would be fresh and exciting to simply gender swap the players. Poorly written? Sure. But then they thought they had an easy win simply due to the gender swap.
Ripley was suppose to be a man. Was written as a man. And it wasn't until casting happened that they decided to gender swap. But literally none of her lines were changed to accommodate that swap. No queef jokes needed to remind us that we are so brave and so bold in making the hero of Alien a female.
You may be right in that there are "plenty of entertaining shows with female leads" but I haven't watched them. I'm currently watching Gen V. It's "ok" but it can fuck right off with the transgender sub plot. Not interested and my brain shuts off when I'm being sold on the virtue of gender dysphoria.
Bottom line here? Forced representation and girl power are the problem. The poor writing is downstream of that.
You think JJ Abrams is driven by a "feminist agenda"? the guy who had Kirk oogling Carol Marcus in her undies?
Theres a difference between looking to try and sell substandard content on the back of politics and actually being driven by said politics.
Someone like James Cameron who Sherdog loves, there is a film maker who is actually "woke", who genuinely seems to care about feminism and anti capitalism and made films with some genuine bite to them like Aliens.
Seems that the anti Woke crowd are very selective in what they consider woke, it only seems to be stuff of poor quality thats easier to criticize, stuff which generally only uses politics in a cynical fashion for marketing rather than actually having much substance to it.