I think there’s an important distinction between the two flavors of cringe here. The original “We wrote these characters to be extremely flawed to elicit a ‘cringey’ response to their misadventures, partly to contrast them with the shiny, sci-fi cool of the source material” is much different from the later-resulting “Some subset of loud, obnoxious, misogynistic fans are doing such gross things in the name of the show, the creators have brutally disavowed them”
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