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After a period of different distractions in both my work and private life I am back! Hoping to throw myself back into RP and to help create some wonderful and memorable tales.
I am a dedicated and reliable RPer with a fondness for sci-fi, character study, fantasy and intrigue. I generally go for RPs that are in the casual to advanced ranges and have no problem posting a paragraph or two. I am easy to write with and am not precious about making edits or changes to a post to accommodate others. I don't have a preference as far as writing for a particular gender/sexuality/morality goes but I generally find writing child characters quite difficult.
I do my best to be available to post at most times but work nights for extended shifts so have to work around that. I won't abandon a story though and am usually very punctual at replying to messages so feel free to get in touch!
I am a dedicated and reliable RPer with a fondness for sci-fi, character study, fantasy and intrigue. I generally go for RPs that are in the casual to advanced ranges and have no problem posting a paragraph or two. I am easy to write with and am not precious about making edits or changes to a post to accommodate others. I don't have a preference as far as writing for a particular gender/sexuality/morality goes but I generally find writing child characters quite difficult.
I do my best to be available to post at most times but work nights for extended shifts so have to work around that. I won't abandon a story though and am usually very punctual at replying to messages so feel free to get in touch!
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Superman never destroys a building. Every building that is destroyed is because Zod or one of his lackeys threw him through it. Superman saved THE ENTIRE WORLD btw. People get killed in the comics all the time, read Justice League Origin in the new 52 and tell me there weren't casualties. That had the entire league. You mean to tell me nobody died in the Avengers movies? yeah right.
I'm not gonna comment on the New 52 Justice League because I think it has similar problems and sacrifices too much to make characters look 'cool'.
But the Avengers devote minutes of screentime to the Avengers saving people. That's what I needed from MoS, some kind of thought about the people in danger rather than Mortal Kombat style brawling, the slight glower he gives Pete Ross in ihop doesn't count. Avengers 2 spends about half an hour clearing civilians from the battlefield before they actually go for the big villain.
Except those spacesuits sure didn't block their powers when they were blowing up Smallville did they? Nope, they were fully powered in those suits.
You know what, fair point, I'd forgotten that. I got distracted by all the advertisements and logos that were being smashed to pieces. :P
The problem with everyone's view of Superman is that he is infallible. When he is written that way is when he is written badly. I LOVE THIS CHARACTER but at the end of the day he is just a kid from Kansas who happens to have incredible powers. That is how he sees himself. This shows that even Superman is prone to mistakes and human nature. Take him out of the equation, what would you have done in that situation?
That would be fine if he was written as the Kansas kid with abilities. He isn't, he's written as Space Jesus. They spend the whole film saying: 'you're gonna do great things, you're the chosen one, you can SAVE THEM ALL'...and he doesn't. Not even remotely. It's a good job Metropolis is a big city, if it was the size of Smallville...oh wait, that got destroyed anyway...
No sense that he failed? The entire plot of BvS is dealing with the fact that he failed. They were setting this up. Lex casting and Doomsday appearance aside I think they had a good plan of what they are doing. Did you want another thirty minutes of the movie showing him mope around?
I can't watch BvS while I'm watching MoS. The way that Man of Steel ended, Superman trading quips with the military and turning up as Clark Kent in the Daily Planet (which is a career path we never saw him even consider in the movie btw), gives us the impression that the events that have occurred have all ended well enough for everyone who matters. Say it was a standalone movie, they'd have just sidestepped an utter calamity the likes of which we've never seen because they want a cutesy finish. I honestly think that if there hadn't been fuss kicked up about it, we wouldn't have a BvS focusing on the events of MoS the way it is.
I don't need to see him mope, I just need to see Clark acknowledge that this wasn't ok and he will do better next time.
Also, just read this next bit :P
And think about it, what else was he going to do? The phantom zone projectors were all destroyed. You can't hold Zod in a prison.
Except they totally could, put Zod in one of his space suits that block out the Earth's atmosphere (because that's what gives Kryptonians powers now...nice spacewalk Clark) and put him in a straitjacket. There, problem solved!
I'm personally a fan of Man of Steel. I prefer it to the Christopher Reeves movies and I'm a very big Superman fanboy. Yeah sure Supes wasn't as hopeful and wasn't able to save every single person in Metropolis but that was literally his first fight against a super villain in his entire life. And the criticism over supes killing Zod is a little dumb because Reeves killed him too.
The idea of Superman killing doesn't bother me when it's done well but, as I saw it, they didn't have any build up to the act and, this is my problem, it was unnecessary. Clark had Zod in a headlock, there were at least 3 ways I could think of that he could have saved the innocent bystanders without killing anyone.
Equally, the body count wouldn't bother me if they brought it up. You had a scene of Superman and Lois making out in ground zero, after the big fight it just goes to Superman and the military, my problem was that there was no sense that he'd failed.
For the record, sorry about the long post, I just never get to have this conversation with anyone haha.
@Eddie Brock
Do you listen to Fatman on Batman by any chance? :P
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Is it bad my mind immediately went to Adam West there?
Nothing is ever bad with Adam West!
@Morden Man
I re-watched Man of Steel recently myself. As a sci-fi movie I don't mind it but there was just a sense of aggression to it that just wasn't necessary.
For BvS I'm just hoping they don't do too much BatGod.
I re-watched Man of Steel recently myself. As a sci-fi movie I don't mind it but there was just a sense of aggression to it that just wasn't necessary.
For BvS I'm just hoping they don't do too much BatGod.
It looks like it's going to be a very busy film. I enjoyed Age of Ultron but I did feel slightly like I got motion sickness halfway through because how quickly everything moved and how many characters there were. I'm starting to think Batman vs Superman will suffer from the same thing. Batman vs Superman is enough of an event in and of itself but introducing Wonder Woman and Doomsday on top of that? Good luck making that stick.
That and the infamous R Rating. I'm not a fan of Man of Steel for many reasons but a big one is that they take it too seriously for me. I get why but Batman falls apart when taken too seriously (nuclear bomb in Gotham anyone?) and Superman...I love Superman and think Henry Cavill is a fine actor...but he was never allowed to be Superman outside of maybe two scenes in Man of Steel...
Yeah, I'm not too thrilled about it either. I'm willing to give the man a chance but so far I'm not convinced from what I've seen in the trailers.
It COULD be incredible...am I much more likely to watch the next season of Daredevil before I go see BVS? Definitely.
Oh? What's that? Morden Man's been buried under a storm of emoticon faces? Tough break...
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