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Man, what a weird coincidence. I was reading TV Tropes this afternoon, instead of all the other stuff I should have been doing -_-, and somehow ended up on the deconstruction page, which dedicates plenty of space to all the myriad ways all the happy optimistic stuff I grew up with has been deconstructed (what stood out the most to me was the Federation from Star Trek), which was a little depressing but hey I can't expect everyone to enjoy or product only what I like, and then by random whim I happened to go to VG Cats, and they had a new comic up, shocking in and of itself, that actually was about the same thing I was feeling, namely the seeming demise of speculative science fiction.

Weird.

Though I have to admit, I would like to see an attempt at deconstruction all the darker and edgier "realistic" stories that when you look closely probably have as many problems as the cheerful optimistic ones. I'll bet it'll happen in another decade or so, it'll be interesting to see.