Been watching the 1994 Robocop TV series to see how well it has aged since I am avoiding doing my self-directed CCNA and IT learning - hecking yay ADHD and not wanting to get into a new online games! Buuuuttt, there is an issue, I've run out of modern shows to watch and honestly, I'm not mentally prepared to rewatch one of the giant old school classic sci-fi series like Star Trek or Andromeda again, I rewatched voyager for like the 4th time this year and although I love it, I dunno if I can face Deep Space 9 for the 3rd time right now. Maybe I need to start listening to some new podcasts or something? Anyone know something I can bite into like Welcome to Nightvale?
Anyways, the first Robocop TV series; definitely ZERO holds barred copiganda from Robocop, but not a heck of a lot of misbehaviour from the other cops like we see in cop fiction these days. And honestly, its not completely awful, the series hasn't aged too poorly in the 2 decades since I last watched it - despite the dystopian undertones in just about every episode, its still kinda corny and personally, I love the way that the writers of this series completely missed the personal computer revolution that happened in the late 90s/2000s (I kinda thought the same thing too for some reason, 5 years of playing in basic coding and building PCs in the early 90s and somehow I did NOT see mobiles, visual programming or cheap laptops coming haha).
The absolute most striking thing I have seen in here is the amount of time they spend calling corporate entities out for doing shitty things like pollution, insider trading and privatisation - its at levels that I haven't seen in commercial media this century tbh. Like no giant conspiracy with some handsome lead finding a secret insider thing and exposing it to the world, just a heap of 'hey, maybe this doctor should go to jail because he is providing unhealthy organs to the black market for profit and this lady should go to jail for embezzling funds from a privatised welfare scheme she runs'. Very interesting, I actually might plan to watch this again in another 20 years just to see how much has changed!