Simon Pegg drew some ire from some Star Trek, Star Wars, and pretty much the nerd community at large recently when an i09 article about a Radio Times had him saying that genre movies and the culture itself has made society “infantilized”.
He said, “Now we’re essentially all consuming very childish things – comic books, superheroes. Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously.””It is a kind of dumbing down, in a way, because it’s taking our focus away from real-world issues…”
Well after a bit of digestion, the Star Trek star and screenwriter responded on his own site this afternoon and explained he he didn’t mean to talk down to sci-fi fans, much less the genre.