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Subj: Eccentricities? Isn't your entire country taking tomorrow off for a wedding? Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 08:34:26 pm EDT (Viewed 4 times) | Reply Subj: It all seems very clear to me. Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 08:07:03 pm EDT (Viewed 7 times) | ||||||
Quote: Obviously, Time/Warner feel that they're going to lose the court case with the Shuster/Seigel copyright claim, so they're doing everything they can to sabotage the character before DC loses the right to use him.I would dispute this, but I have read the summaries for "Grounded" on Wikipedia. Quote: More seriously, WHAT THE HELL is wrong with Americans that suddenly they seem to be ashamed of their country? I mean, sure, we Brits enjoy mocking you for your colonial eccentricities, but what's this new spirit of apologetic pandering that makes you forget all the good stuff you've brought to the world. Why is it suddenly wrong to be patriotic? Why are you forcing us Brits to say nice things about you in breach of the usual traditions?I'd like to think its because we have such high expectations of ourselves as a nation that we fixate on the negative. Quote: Why is it bad to belong to a country that values freedom of speech, democracy, self-determination and human rights so much that it fought terrible wars to win them and framed a great constitution to preserve them? Why is it bad to be part of a nation that's fought tyranny at substantial cost in pretty much every major conflict that's really counted in the last century? And why is it bad to be part of a nation that actually questions and re-evaluates its values and practices all the time and learns things like slavery is wrong and segregation is immoral?Nobody roots for Goliath, that's why. Quote: And what stupid politically-correct politically-naive thinking has led to DC's Superman decision? What's wrong with defining the American way as the people who first coined that phase did, meaning democracy and the personal liberties and personal opportunity? Or is Superman not for those now?I believe any thinking DC and David Goyer have done on the subject is more market driven than politically correct. Quote: And speaking as a comics fan, there is NO WAY that a smart savvy journalist like Clark Kent would be dumb enough to make the kind of decision his dumb writers just did. And if he tried Lois would kick his ass all the way to Smallville.You'd like to think so. To me, this is just another example of how DC tends to wussify Superman as a character. Can you imagine Batman renouncing anything to placate a disapproving public? | |||||||
