South Park isn’t a direct satire, never/rarely was, it takes small bits & pieces from reality and make another reality/universe. The allegories don’t stack up, never really have (iirc, I might have forgotten stuff over the years). They only have short satiric comments, the satire ends basically before that is woven into a story along with other made-up bits. So rectoplasm on the nose is satire, but everything beyond that is just random story.
They make short jokes on reality as a way to get ideas flowing for the story.
Why should they change now?
The main difference is that (very) lately the arches again centre around random bits from USA politics. It’s what dominates the news/society. And to that they say in the show how everything changed & now they (the kids) now have to pay attention or whatever - something I hear from the few (up to recently apolitical) people I know living over there.
I just hate that they miss the problem with so many things
Do you have any example them telling a good moral on current events? They prob did it at least a few times, but usually not - they just make stuff up for the lolz, not to serve reshape and educate society. A society/individuals expecting that from South Park would be a silly one.
Not straight up juvenile parody.
Trey Parker is too immature himself to make poignant satire
I think we basically agree, I just don’t member when things were that much different & I’m not sure why would I expect more from South Park.
Perhaps you’ve just outgrown SP & it doesn’t suit you anymore, it is a long running show after all.
South Park isn’t a direct satire, never/rarely was, it takes small bits & pieces from reality and make another reality/universe. The allegories don’t stack up, never really have (iirc, I might have forgotten stuff over the years). They only have short satiric comments, the satire ends basically before that is woven into a story along with other made-up bits. So rectoplasm on the nose is satire, but everything beyond that is just random story.
They make short jokes on reality as a way to get ideas flowing for the story.
Why should they change now?
The main difference is that (very) lately the arches again centre around random bits from USA politics. It’s what dominates the news/society. And to that they say in the show how everything changed & now they (the kids) now have to pay attention or whatever - something I hear from the few (up to recently apolitical) people I know living over there.
Do you have any example them telling a good moral on current events? They prob did it at least a few times, but usually not - they just make stuff up for the lolz, not to serve reshape and educate society. A society/individuals expecting that from South Park would be a silly one.
I think we basically agree, I just don’t member when things were that much different & I’m not sure why would I expect more from South Park.
Perhaps you’ve just outgrown SP & it doesn’t suit you anymore, it is a long running show after all.