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Love in Zion National: A National Park Romance (2023)
Absolute Nonsense and an Insult
Other people have already mentioned how the movie butchered indigenous culture and history, so I won't really get into that part. I don't know enough details myself to really speak on it, especially because my own work in anthropology was focused on the East Coast US.
Instead I'll focus on what I know: anthropology, history, and curation. This movie shows a curator with years of training, explicitly saying years of study on the specific population in question, but doesn't know even the most well known details, let alone the lesser known details of the culture that a curator would need to know to be effective.
As one of many examples, not knowing what the Three Sisters are. Anyone who has studied general anthropology in the US is going to know what the Three Sisters are. Hell, anyone who has studied agriculture in the US is likely to know too.
Really. Between showcasing a supposedly formally trained expert as a complete idiot (maybe just because they're trying to depict white people, even ones with extensive formal training, as ignorant fools) and then showing that the writers are themselves ignorant on tribal history... Who wrote this garbage and how did it make its way through any vetting?
The Orville: A Happy Refrain (2019)
Best robot romance episode of pretty much any scifi show
Star Trek has done a number of episodes involving romance with artificial lifeforms. Data's relationship with Tasha Yar (spoilers?) was pretty much an afterthought. The Doctor had a lot of relationships, but they were pretty much exclusively depressing.
In this one episode, you see an extreme amount of ups and downs and it was so damn funny, while also showcasing the confusing nature of human romance. It also reminds me somewhat of Data becoming aware of friendship: "As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent."
Need I say more? Maybe, and I might write a full review of this episode.