Why is pop culture so obsessed with space and astronauts all of a sudden?

[JakeWIlls92]

It seems like in the past two years space has become all the rage.

Not just TV too.








Has Elon Musk bribed some parts of Hollywood? Has SpaceX reignited interest in space travel? Has Earth gotten so bad that society is looking at space as a place to escape?

Either way I am not complaining. I remember back in the 2010-2014 period when there was little to no interest in space and sci fi. In the early 2010s passionate sci fi fans were quite vocal about the absence of anything with space travel on TV.

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What happened to society in the early 2010s?

It seems like the 2008 financial crisis caused much of society to struggle to get by and to this day a lot still struggle so many people have the right to be cynical for the future but there seems to be a good portion of society that is perfectly happy with the status quo. Big house in a safe suburban neighborhood, a family, vacations to Disney World and the Bahamas every year, etc. That is the upper Middle Class. That is the reality show demographic. Life on Earth is good enough already, so why dream of a "Star Trek" like future?

 

[Unkotare]

Space is not new.

 

[Resnic]

So?

Hollywood is always about hot topic cycles. A while back it was all natural disaster movies in the late 90s and early 2000s. The core, volcano, Dante's peak, deep impact, geostorm, and a bunch of others.

Movies always go through phases where they all create like minded movies for a little while.

Space related stuff has always been a constant though, it's never stopped having something out there. Whether it be a horror movie like life with Ryan Reynolds, or the martian, or that boring ass movie with George Clooney floating around on space, and so on.