JamesEightBitStar said:Its really all a shill, because the bottom line is you don't need to care. The whole Earth-1/Earth-2 thing happened because the writers at DC were geeks and they realized there were inconsistencies in their stories. For some stupid reason comic authors have this idea that their universes must be one big, internally consistent tapestry, so they decided that--rather than just admitting they were goofs and finalizing a truth later (which would be the SMART thing)--they would come up with this convoluted "there's two Earths" theory and try to shoehorn everything into one or the other (for comparisons sake, it would be like trying to explain away Artoo-Detoo's powers of flight by claiming Attack of the Clones took place on Earth-2). It's worth noting that no other type of writer thinks like a comic book writer (thank god!)
Golden Age stories tended to have very straightforward, black and white morality. The hero is right, the villain is an evil jerk who deserves to have a house fall on him, and no questions asked.
Well, in their defense, Arthur C. Clarke was the same way with his 2001 series of novels. When he realized certain plot points simply didn't work in between novels, he simply said that each one took place in its own parallel universe. Which, if you ask me, completely defeats the purpose of making them a series in the first place. On the other end of the respectability spectrum are the Leprechaun films, otherwise known as the single most pointless string of films ever (I refuse to even call them a series). Like the 2001 novels, each Leprachaun film takes place in a universe all its own (you could make an argument that the 1, 2, and 4 exist in the same timeline, but there's nothing to indicate such a relationship), and it gets annoying as Hell after 6 films.
Oh, and does anybody else miss superhero stories like in the Golden Age? Why does everything have to be so complicated? What happened to the days when "this is the bad guy, watch him get his ass kicked" was a respectable form of story-telling? Now, everything has to be "gray" and "thought-provoking". Listen, you dick-faced philosopher-wannabes, an audience shouldn't have to flip a coin to decide which character to root for!
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Sorry about that.