And then have the balls to castigate the viewer base who grew up with it and their grievances of the perversion of their nostalgia
Absolutely, but that goes for any vice (which is why vice is bad).
Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. - St. Augustine
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