xhonzi

I know a lot of storytellers tend to find themselves in more "liberal" societies, but I think there are a lot of conservative values inherent to storytelling.  Especially certain genres.

Recently, several superhero things have stuck out to me as very odd.  The Mrs. and I were watching this season of Smallville (Superman's a conservative, right?) and they introduced a "right wing radio host who is on a campaign against [Superman]".  And my first thought, as a conservative with more than his fair share of comics and other superhero paraphernalia around the house, is- Yeah, because conservatives haaaaaaaate superheroes.

I mean, there's all of that "right and wrong" and "with power comes responsibility" and "using violence to solve problems" and "criminals are bad" and "people using violence to solve problems CAN BE THE GOOD GUYS" and "saving innocent people from guilty people" etc...

Maybe it's one of those issues where both sides of the political divide want to claim what's good and desirable from pop culture... but I thought it was sort of a given that the superhero genre had certain tropes that made it more conservative friendly than a lot of other genres ("adult" comedies, for example).

I was reading Green Lantern Blackest Night which also had some liberal jabs at conservatives, and there was something else recently too.

Anyways, have at it.

My son (who's 7.5 now) has long been a Batman TAS fan.  In fact, we have video from his 2nd birthday where he got Season 2.  I remember at the time that we were all excited to give him another season because we'd all been watching Season 1- the same 10 hours of it, several times a week.  My mother-in-law was there and expressed sincere concern that it was not an appropriate gift for a 2 year old... but I countered that he really enjoyed it and was very excited about it.

Watching the homevideo now, it does shock me at how young my son was when he was watching that show...  but he was really into it.

However, he's not into the Fleischer Superman stuff... he's not a serious collector.

Spice.

TV's Frink said:

No need - I've just found John Galt.

Who is John Galt?

Sell enough of your time to buy the $42,000 rooster?

Warbler said:

xhonzi said:

 Bah!  Now it needs to be:

Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was: Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was Should Warbler watch The Exorcist?)(was: Should Warbler watch the Exorcist?)

 

you are missing a ")"

YOU'RE RIGHT!

That makes it:

Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was: Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was: Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was Should Warbler watch The Exorcist?)(was: Should Warbler watch the Exorcist?))

Is that okay with the mods?  Maybe I will make another thread with a poll?

ChainsawAsh said:

Yes, you are being very pedantic, and you keep acting as if his opinion is empirically wrong.  That bothers me.

I'm going to stop speaking for Anchorhead at this point, and let him speak for himself.

And you're acting like it's wrong for him to have the opinion that Anchorhead is wrong.

Hmmmm?

Maybe he didn't listen to it in DTS?

Oh man!  THAT IS TEH BEST!

Single post.*

MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE.  (of the precious variety)

Oh, man... I'll never get taken off of his ignore list if I CAN'T EVEN GET ON IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!

This sucks.

Warbler said:

Moth3r said:

TV's Frink said:

Then you need to update the thread title.

You missed out the colon after "was".

oops, I'll go fix that.

 Bah!  Now it needs to be:

Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was: Warbler has watched The Exorcist(was Should Warbler watch The Exorcist?)(was: Should Warbler watch the Exorcist?)

No, it's MIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!

Oh course there's a problem with the audio on the Superman DVD.... it's in that crappy Dolby Digital and not in glorious DTS!

Sluggo said:

Frink's mom donated food, time and money to a local charity.

And she sells her time and looks for a $42,000 rooster.

Are you wearing pants right now, Frink?

Is it possible that Moth3r or Jay can abuse the powers of knowing his e-mail address and attempt to find out if he's okay?

Warbler said:

I've been taking off the Jedi Temple34's ignore list. 

Welcome to the club, Warb. 

He's back!??!  HERE'S my CHANCE!

You are not a nice person, JTT34!  And you need to reevaluate your feelings toward DTS!  And suck it!

Sorry, we can't all be... French.

Cheep cheep cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Half-par?  Does that make him a birdie? (Assume Par is 2, for some reason)  What kind of birdie?  Maybe a chicken birde?  Cheep cheep cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

Who was pwned?  I don't think I get it...