South-Park releases JOINING THE PANDERVERSE special episode mocking Disney and Kathleen Kennedy's production decisions promoting woke ideology, yet somehow SJW groups comically try and declare it is a critique on the anti-woke crowd.
Production timing limitations aside, some may say the JOINING THE PANDERVERSE is a bit late to discussion on the downfall of Disney, but many of those frustrated with the "modern" Disney appreciate South-Park highlighting what they have been trying to point out for about a decade.
Storyline / themes including mocking how Disney and a large portion of Hollywood for that matter has an obsession with "diverse" race swapping characters in established franchises and Kathleen Kennedy in particular taking "The Force Is Female" approach to everything could be summed up as "Put a chick in it, Make her lame and gay!" Likely due to episode time considerations, the Marvel side of Disney's pandering is only lightly mentioned with gags such as the Panderverse referring to the Marvel Multiverse. Less mentioned, the episode also discusses AI and how classic labor trades are becoming more valuable than near useless fringe college degrees.
At one point in JOINING THE PANDERVERSE Cartman is used to declare perhaps it is "lazy" for the anti-woke crowd to just rag on woke media and somehow leftists use this to essentially declare the whole episode is mocking right "chuds". This of course requires ignoring that 95%+ of the show is blasting woke media and another great example of leftists choosing to see an alternate reality as a coping mechanism.
One great example of this was Cracked.com's article titled:
‘South Park: Joining the Panderverse’ Is Peak ‘Both Sides Are Equally Dumb’ ‘South Park’
Thoughts including:
The conclusion of this conflict comes when Cartman admits to Kennedy, “I guess we created each other.” Kennedy apologizes to Cartman and says, “I’m sorry I was so reckless with the things that you love. It was just lazy.” Cartman tells her, “I guess just wailing on woke stuff all the time is pretty lazy, too.”
There we have it — both sides are equally bad. Balance restored.
And then proceeds backtrack one paragraph away with:
South Park: Joining the Panderverse’s assertion that racist backlash and pandering moviemaking both created and deserve each other minimizes the reality of racism as it relates to entertainment. But, again, this is — and has always been — par for the course for South Park. The ethos of “mock everyone equally” implies that, regardless of the issue tackled, both sides are equally deserving of criticism when that simply can’t be a universal truth.
As expected, Twitter-X included some similar thoughts, even if not the most popular ones:
That Panderverse sPecial was pretty even-handed and even gave Kathleen Kennedy a redemption arc, but the "anti-wokeness" channels are all "South Park ANNIHILATED Disney!" pic.twitter.com/5ILNYxek21
— RadRad (@ConradSzumilas) October 27, 2023
As usual though, one of the best places to find delusional takes is on Reddit, in this case it appears the r/saltierthankrayt group is particuarly butthurt and wishes to craft an alternate reality. After I found about 6 posts of basically the same thing, I decided to stop as my point was already made:
Remember when everyone said the new south park special would mock Disney - saltierthankrayt
South Park also DESTROYED you guys as Cartman and that's a good thing for us - saltierthankrayt
This image needs to be sent to anti-woke chuds every time they make an anti-woke video. - saltierthankrayt
The Irony of South Park's Panderverse - saltierthankrayt
The Right's "Understanding" of Satire is worthy of a lengthy PHD Level Thesis Statement - saltierthankrayt
I think these fandom menacers are completely missing the fact that this special also roasts and makes fun of them too. Cartman flat out said complaing about "woke" stuff all the time is lazy. CARTMAN said that. Let that sink in... - saltierthankrayt
Worth mentioning, Gina Carano whom was especially targeted and wronged by Kathleen Kennedy, has some thoughts on the Panderverse as well:
This is the part where KK demands any YouTubers get censored off of YouTube for sharing and laughing at this hilarious episode, she’ll have YouTube disable the thumbs down option because of the ratio she’ll receive, then she’ll have her publicist ghouls make sure Variety and… https://t.co/CMgASHQBgz
— Gina Carano ? (@ginacarano) October 28, 2023
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