Gizmodo’s James Whitbrook has yet more to vent on Paramount+‘s cancelation and erasure of Prodigy.
I hadn’t considered the cancelation from the perspective of systemic misogyny, which Whitbrook effectively is carating.
However, given that Janeway was surely chosen as the legacy captain for Prodigy because Voyager had proven itself to be an effective gateway for younger and new viewers on Netflix, Whitbrook’s inference Paramount views her less important to the franchise than Picard is biting.
Paramount wouldn’t dare treat what it’s done for Patrick Stewart and Jean-Luc Picard as a tax break. Casting aside everything that Prodigy stood for, and in the process doing the same to Mulgrew and Janeway’s legacy, is a cruel twist on what is already a cruel fate for the show.
I feel like Paramount always saw Voyager as a family show. That’s why they were so irked when they wanted to make it darker.
@Tired8281 @StillPaisleyCat I dunno about that! The only reason the Borg plot wasn’t a few-episode one-off was because 7/9 was providing some T&A the franchise…basically lacked entirely given it’s sausage party crew and Neelix macking on Ocampas in a way that was totally weird and creepy.
@Tired8281 @StillPaisleyCat Let’s not kid ourselves. The late 90s were pretty problematic in a lot of ways that Voyager basically leaned into while also passively calling out.