not interesting.... but weird.
ghostbusters has undergone a gender bender, iron man is now replaced by 15 year old black girl, thor is now a woman and the list just seems to go on.
why is it that established brands seem to pander to the SJW crowd? is it the money or fear of reprisals? the strange thing is that i don't think it would be reprisals for if that were the case, they would have changed the characters a long time ago.
the ghostbusters one for most of the part seems to be just for the fun of it. the new lady ghostbusters seem less of an experiment than it is a movie that's there just to have fun. the trailers don't look pretty but i'd be looking more at the writing and casting if i was looking for faults. so, its intentionally silly.
whereas with the comics industry things are getting rather weird. i'm apathetic to the whole notion that thor must be a woman or that iron man must be a black teenage girl. all i'm looking for is the real reason behind the sudden change. you don't simply take a character who has been established as such for more than 10 years and suddenly make a huge change. i mean there is a reason that when you have superman, after that you have super girl and super boy. i agree with the camp that says you should make a new stand alone character to represent different parts of society, be they queer, different ethnicity, social status and blablabla.
black heroes. you have so many to choose from. static shock is among one of the chief black heroes i have heard of. cyborg as well. if you must have a female black super hero, storm from the X-men. i'll put it this way. comics have been expanding and expanding their hero and villain roster for so long that you can have a library full of hero bios and history and it'll still need more room to expand. the point of the matter though is you could have created a new character or brought in another character. this is a reverse form of white washing it seems. no matter how many times it is done and no matter which character it is done to, people will never be happy about it. perhaps the SJWs will be happy about it. but then again, if we're talking about taste, they probably don't have any.
but back to the question though. why do it? iron man is still in the picture. and the title is still iron man. how do you reconcile the fact that the titular character is pushed aside for a new character who is of a completely different gender? it doesn't feel like progress. it doesn't feel socially acceptable either. why do writers go out of their way to purposefully change something that had worked previously to something that will antagonize your supporters?
i understand experimentation, but is it? have they really exhausted tony stark's story to the point they have to replace him? i sincerely doubt that. i highly doubt its for the money either.
all i can say is this though. i've ploughed through wikias on marvel and DC characters before. i have also heard horror stories about character reboots so bad that the writers who came after had to reboot the whole thing proper. maybe this is the case we're seeing now? maybe we're seeing writers who take to the helm and using their own.... initiative they've decided to come up with something bad but have not realized it yet? i mean this must be the case because Rob Liefield is still working as a comic book artist isn't it? i strongly feel that all we are seeing now is the creation of a bad part of comic book history, an infamous time where the writers against all logic chose to do what was supposedly right in their mind and in a grand, futile gesture, helped to bury a beloved comic book character.
i'd like to think we're all at a fortune teller's den and we just keep drawing the death tarot. sure, it is pretty much what it means. Death means dying but the meaning behind the card if i'm not wrong is not an end to something. well... depending on your outlook it is something's life dying but it is a transformative process to say the least. only in death can something else be born. i just hope to still be around when that something nice and new is born though.
ghostbusters has undergone a gender bender, iron man is now replaced by 15 year old black girl, thor is now a woman and the list just seems to go on.
why is it that established brands seem to pander to the SJW crowd? is it the money or fear of reprisals? the strange thing is that i don't think it would be reprisals for if that were the case, they would have changed the characters a long time ago.
the ghostbusters one for most of the part seems to be just for the fun of it. the new lady ghostbusters seem less of an experiment than it is a movie that's there just to have fun. the trailers don't look pretty but i'd be looking more at the writing and casting if i was looking for faults. so, its intentionally silly.
whereas with the comics industry things are getting rather weird. i'm apathetic to the whole notion that thor must be a woman or that iron man must be a black teenage girl. all i'm looking for is the real reason behind the sudden change. you don't simply take a character who has been established as such for more than 10 years and suddenly make a huge change. i mean there is a reason that when you have superman, after that you have super girl and super boy. i agree with the camp that says you should make a new stand alone character to represent different parts of society, be they queer, different ethnicity, social status and blablabla.
black heroes. you have so many to choose from. static shock is among one of the chief black heroes i have heard of. cyborg as well. if you must have a female black super hero, storm from the X-men. i'll put it this way. comics have been expanding and expanding their hero and villain roster for so long that you can have a library full of hero bios and history and it'll still need more room to expand. the point of the matter though is you could have created a new character or brought in another character. this is a reverse form of white washing it seems. no matter how many times it is done and no matter which character it is done to, people will never be happy about it. perhaps the SJWs will be happy about it. but then again, if we're talking about taste, they probably don't have any.
but back to the question though. why do it? iron man is still in the picture. and the title is still iron man. how do you reconcile the fact that the titular character is pushed aside for a new character who is of a completely different gender? it doesn't feel like progress. it doesn't feel socially acceptable either. why do writers go out of their way to purposefully change something that had worked previously to something that will antagonize your supporters?
i understand experimentation, but is it? have they really exhausted tony stark's story to the point they have to replace him? i sincerely doubt that. i highly doubt its for the money either.
all i can say is this though. i've ploughed through wikias on marvel and DC characters before. i have also heard horror stories about character reboots so bad that the writers who came after had to reboot the whole thing proper. maybe this is the case we're seeing now? maybe we're seeing writers who take to the helm and using their own.... initiative they've decided to come up with something bad but have not realized it yet? i mean this must be the case because Rob Liefield is still working as a comic book artist isn't it? i strongly feel that all we are seeing now is the creation of a bad part of comic book history, an infamous time where the writers against all logic chose to do what was supposedly right in their mind and in a grand, futile gesture, helped to bury a beloved comic book character.
i'd like to think we're all at a fortune teller's den and we just keep drawing the death tarot. sure, it is pretty much what it means. Death means dying but the meaning behind the card if i'm not wrong is not an end to something. well... depending on your outlook it is something's life dying but it is a transformative process to say the least. only in death can something else be born. i just hope to still be around when that something nice and new is born though.
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