"I absolutely love the premise of Homestuck—the whole idea of 4 bastards with super messy lives having to fight their own massive screw-up just because they wanted to play a sandbox game. The only thing I hate is how they handled the characters, relationships, weird fetishes, and bullshit like that...Some situations are just painful to watch and read. Sometimes that exact same nonsense ends up completely ruining a huge chunk of the lore
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The premise of every gritty Batman reboot is basically the same: what if we took this seriously and made it realistic? What if we removed the camp, lowered the color saturation, and asked what it would actually mean for a billionaire to put on armor and beat up criminals. Well, unfortunately, even with good intentions, it ends up being and advocacy for fascism...
Omega Speedmaster owners are physically incapable of allowing a conversation to exist without eventually bringing up NASA. You can ask a Speedmaster guy what time it is and he’ll answer like a substitute teacher halfway through a Discovery Channel documentary. “Well, actually, this was the first watch worn on the moon…”. There it is. Right on schedule. Just give me the time man. The Speedmaster is fascinating because it’s the only luxury watch whose owners genuinely believe they’re preserving…
I watched that video too when it went viral. Laughed, moved on. But today I watched Kristin Cabot's interview with Oprah and man, the internet is horrible.
The old hero was not another kind of being. He was a human being at heroic scale. Achilles, Odysseus, Heracles: greater than you, but made of the same material. Even Captain American, Batman, John Wick. That form of story invites aspiration. The modern superhero more often invites spectatorship and a feeling of inadequacy.
One of the strangest assumptions in modern literalist readings of Scripture is the idea that the Bible should be treated as if it were a single kind of document with a single interpretive key. As if it were a legal contract where every clause must be enforced uniformly, or a scientific paper where every sentence is meant as a precise empirical claim, or a recipe book where the point is simply to follow instructions exactly as written.
Some of the most expensive fantasy ever put on screen felt emptier than the more limited work that came before it. That is not because viewers secretly prefer cheapness. It is because abundance is a terrible substitute for judgment and good storytelling.
Removing tragedy from stories does not protect the audience. It removes one of the oldest ways human beings have practiced feeling fear, pity, and loss inside a form that can be survived.