Ready Player Two: A Painfully Woke and Unnecessary Sequel
https://pjmedia.com/culture/matt-margolis/2020/11/25/ready-player-two-a-painfully-woke-and-unnecessary-sequel-n1172228
Sequels (almost) always stink.
I’m going to write a book with all straight White people, and the bad guys are all gay non Whites.
>>forcing most of the world’s population to seek escape inside the OASIS, the massive virtual-reality world where most of the action of the story takes place. The protagonist, Wade Watts, habitually deplores religion and capitalism
Like the Fascist “Anti-fascists” who espouse Marxist slogans but never seem to be without their cellphones, laptops, etc. that WOULD NOT EXIST without Capitalism.
Think a virtual reality cyber world just codes itself? Didn’t the chacters buy physical upgrades to their wares?
>> Eventually, he asks her outright to confirm her gender. “Now, spill it. Are you a woman? And by that I mean are you a human female who has never had a sex-change operation?”
>>If published today, Cline would be accused of both homophobia and transphobia by the social justice warriors—and he clearly knows this.
INFORMED CONSENT is a thing. Women say that “consent is sexy”.
So why do homofascists get to bait people and then cry when their rough trade hookups fail? And both men and women have been unknowningly lured by members of the same sex.
It is not consensual and no one should have to be subjected to unwanted advances.
>>In Ready Player Two, he seemed determined to make up for this past wrong by not only including a transgender character but by “enlightening” Wade as well.
Neve read the book but in the movie there is a character who is later revealed to be a “girl” and another who is revealed to be just a 13 year old “boy”. Since they weren’t love interests of any characters it wasn’t a big deal.
>>After this revelation, Wade quickly declares that “Discovering this minor detail didn’t send me spiraling into a sexual-identity crisis, the way it probably would have back when I was younger,” and explains how through his use of the new fully immersive virtual reality technology he had been able to experiment with “all different kinds of sex” and ultimately concluded, “passion was passion and love was love, regardless of who the participants involved were, or what sort of body they were assigned at birth.”
Tell a vegan that their meatless burger was really bloody beef and see how they take it. It’s just meat. it wont’ kill them.
>>There’s even a whole planet and a chapter dedicated to honoring the music of The Artist Formerly Known as Prince—but Cline felt compelled to inform the reader that he doesn’t approve of Prince’s embracing of religion and ultimately not approving of homosexuality late in life by having the characters discuss and criticize this fact. Such disclaimers appear throughout the novel.
The Left HOWLED at Little Richard as he lived his final years out because he had condemned homosexual lifestyles (and had questioned it at numerous points of his life, where he’d started out cruising at bus stations late at night, then performing in drag, then finding success and paying to watch people have sex, throwing it all away to go back to Bible college, then coming back to peform and record and eventually getting into heroin).
Black men apparently aren’t supposed to embrace religion or denounce sexual immorality.
How much is the movie like the book and how appropriate is it to even make a sequel?
Didn’t the lead become emperor of the Microsoft/virtual world at the end of the first one? Didn’t he fall in love with some gal who proved to be his match at problem solving and risk taking? So now he’s been cybersexing with randoms and is still living out his days in a virtual world even though he has a corporation/Wonka Chocolate Factory to run?
I don’t get it.