Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification. “Theme park rides” is a good description.
I’m interested to see how James Gunn handles Superman. One of the points is supposed to be that Superman isn’t the world’s first superhero. Others have been around for at least a few years; hopefully more. I wonder how that will affect the “feel” of the integration! You’ve given me something else to look for!
i’m almost convinced that it’s impossible to make interesting stories with superman as the main character, just because the entire crux of the character is that he can’t integrate. he’s like dr. manhattan, or godzilla, or unicron; just too powerful to work as a protagonist, but very interesting to write a world around.
uncritically building a superman story will always necessarily have to hand-wave some random reason for why he can’t just vaporise the antagonist on the spot, and it’s always the same hand-wave.
like, the iron giant is not about the iron giant. that’s why it’s good.
Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification. “Theme park rides” is a good description.
I’m interested to see how James Gunn handles Superman. One of the points is supposed to be that Superman isn’t the world’s first superhero. Others have been around for at least a few years; hopefully more. I wonder how that will affect the “feel” of the integration! You’ve given me something else to look for!
i’m almost convinced that it’s impossible to make interesting stories with superman as the main character, just because the entire crux of the character is that he can’t integrate. he’s like dr. manhattan, or godzilla, or unicron; just too powerful to work as a protagonist, but very interesting to write a world around.
uncritically building a superman story will always necessarily have to hand-wave some random reason for why he can’t just vaporise the antagonist on the spot, and it’s always the same hand-wave.
like, the iron giant is not about the iron giant. that’s why it’s good.
The Iron Giant is a great example - both because of the comparison, and because I love that film!