r38 They always have trouble writing for the current generation in every era. . .

but so are the troubles that the majority audience wants the familiar rather than the new.

And the industry, itself, is quite resistant to change. . . so, like govt and politics, it enacts on the superficial, cosmetic, surface changes.

It's been emboldened by the industry being able to scream isms when their projects flounder, reflective of the fallout of gamergate and the rise of clickbait journalism... one glaring example is the often huge gap between audience scores and critic scores.

(been analyzing series from the last decade for a little side project with others, still in the process but the gist of it can be broken down for sci-fi/fantasy/mystery/action

boomers for plots, both episodic and long arcs. generic character roles, collectives over individuals, more action oriented, slow character growth as dialogue is focused on immediate tasks or present needs and thus we're only presented with snippits of character lives and histories.

gen x for complex on-going character development. flawed, verbally abrasive in some form, often of antihero/antivillain archetypes. plots have relevance but focus is on character growth towards good or spiraling out.

millennials for dialogue, often excessive verbalization of emotion and thought to the point of neurosis, avoidance through cultural references and often supersedes physical action. primary characters are slightly mary sue/marty stu butmany insecurities about themselves and their relationships to others - They're group oriented yet these neurotic tendencies seem somewhere on the spectrum as each primary is a little too perfect and the only drama they seem to face is with each other. They don't seem to grow as much as level up or level down per episode than overall. They have trouble maintaining long arc plots and their finales tend to be rushed, often attempting a plot twist that doesn't make sense because there was no foreshadowing or in that it renders the entire series redundant with issues that could have been solved in the pilot.

GenZ/Alpha media is still largely created by others but the hallmarks seem to be poorly edited and disjointed stories that fail across the board. It seems too frequently that it was still in the conceptual stage and not fully realized. Every episode tends to be a very special episode with little characters made out of ticky tacky, little characters and they all come out just the same regardless of whatever superficial diversity they're supposed to represent. So, perhaps, it's hardly a wonder outside of western media more of this audience is drawn to korean series instead. Which I've yet to binge for fears of developing diabetes.