Did anyone catch the last episode? what are your thoughts? Mine is that the show really took a turn to the right, first it was the season finale against obama winning, then the season premiere that at times felt like a whitewash of the NSA. The old southpark would have never done something like that, but now they are defending an out of control government agency, what happened to the "we are libertarians"? But today's episode was more or less all about poking fund at the healthcare website issues, talk about beating a dead horse, one that every pundit has beaten to a pulp already. I thought the zimmerman episode was a turn back to the middle but after last season and now this one the show really feels like a neocon soapbox rather than the sane middleground it used to be
ain't seen it so i have no idea what you're talking about, but thought it was only polite to reply anyway. but maybe reading too much into le animated tv show?
Dunno. I'm about to watch the new episode, so I'll post my impressions afterwards. I didn't get that feeling from the other episodes, though. EDIT: Just saw the new episode. I didn't like it all that much, but it had some funny parts. I can sort of see what you're saying, but I think you're taking it a little too seriously. I've never seen South Park as being about political or social commentary. It's more like it just takes aspects of things from current events and uses those as jumping-off points for jokes. It's pretty obvious that that episode was making fun of the Obamacare website, you're right about that. But I don't think they were really being serious about it. I saw the Goth Kids episode the other day, and I thought that was pretty funny.
Just have to say how much I hate the "I guess there's something wrong with both sides " and "We make fun of everyone " approach to comedy/parody/satire. It's such a fucking cop-out and barely ever leads to anything funny.
Can't say I've seen any of the recent episodes (not enough time), but about that Obama victory: I thought they said they actually made two episodes and then broadcast the "correct" one once the winner was known? Anyways... SP is usually trolling everyone a lot, so if they got you all worked up about sth they won. I'm sure they still have stuff for right-wingers to get angry about, too, which you might not notice since it happens to kinda-sorta match your views and prejudices. edit: Just watched the latest episode (S17E05). I saw them as making fun of the online system's current implementation being broken, but not of medicare itself. How is that taking sides? (Anyways, that ep reminded me why I stopped watching the series. Maybe the NSA ep one turns out to be decent.)
You see that's the problem for me: is not about which side they are supporting but that they are supporting one side over the other. Good old south park never took any sides
Doesn't toe the democrat line != republican. They aren't even defending an "out of control government agency". The point of the NSA episode was that yes, they are a bunch of cunts spying on people, but at the general populace often does things that endangers their privacy anyway, social networks, right down to just using your phone on loud speaker in public are you giving up your own privacy. I'd hardly call criticising a farce of a launch like obamacare was "going full republican" either.
