Mar. 29th, 2012

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So that Superman: Earth One write-up I talked about has been published: "Olsen is Superman's bromantic superfriend and Lois wanks in from the sidelines." (Fun fact: I actually do not come up with the titles.) I'm just really disappointed here, since in writing Spider-Man JMS did a lot of work in elevating the Peter/MJ relationship marriage. Here, all that creative energy goes into fucking Jimmy Olsen.

I might've gone a little crazy with the scans, but it's important to get across that that's pretty much the sum total of Lois's involvement in the story. There's a difference between saying that Lois is a background character in a Jimmy Olsen story and showing that most of her dialogue is "What're we gonna do, Jim Olsen?" But here's one insanely writerly scan I left out. From a not-at-all-cliche public sampling of opinions on Superman...



I love that. "How do I show people are nervous about Superman? I know, I'll have someone point out that Nazis also called themselves supermen! JMS, you've done it again!"

And this is more of an inside baseball criticism, but if you're going to have someone responsible for destroying Krypton, shouldn't it be Darkseid? Since he's unofficially a member of Superman's rogue's gallery, you might as well give the two a reason for not liking each other besides "He's the most powerful superhero, he's the most powerful supervillain, fight!" By that rationale, in the Marvel universe, Hulk and Thanos should be arch-enemies.
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Oh, and you know how in a lot of movies, they'll have a scene where a character goes "I got your call, I was right in the middle of practicing for that archery contest..." and you're like "Oh, he's gonna shoot someone with a bow and arrow later." In Hunger Games, they take that TO THE EXTREME.

First, there's a scene where the Tributes are training for the games and Peeta says "Check it, I can camouflage myself, Rambo style. IT'S BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCE FROM DECORATING CAKES." Because obviously they eat a lot of elaborate decorated cakes in a mining community. And, since it's obviously not enough to foreshadow this by showing him decorating a cake, they show him camouflage his arm and hold it against a table like he's cosplaying Nick Nolte in that Hulk movie we don't talk about.

That's just the set-up. Later, in the arena, where everyone is dying because they can't get water or food, Peeta manages to disguise himself as a rock. And you can so tell it's a professional make-up job. I mean, it's one thing for him to do a Rambo thing and cover himself with mud, but this is just...

No one will convince me that it didn't come from a pot-fueled gaming session. Suzanne Collins was playing an RPG, a guy said "Trolloc the Magnificent disguises himself as a rock," the GM says "You can't do that, you don't have a skill in camouflage," "Hey, I have 6D in cake decoration, it's the same thing!"

Suzanne Collins: This is going in the book.

Then she smoked a bowl with Jack Kirby and came up with "Muttations."
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Title: Until Graduation
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,333
Characters/Pairings: Cara/Kahlan
Summary: Kahlan is straight. Kahlan is Richard's girlfriend. Kahlan is president of the College Christian Club. Cara's in love with her.

ExpandKahlan was straight. Straight, straight, straight. Cara kept telling herself that because she wasn't sure Kahlan remembered. )

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