tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post1835585762159633989..comments2024-03-27T15:06:43.682-07:00Comments on Handi-CAPEable . NEW!: Sonichu Episode 2 Critical Review: The OTP Syndrome, Electric Hedgehog StyleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17773416732192167277noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-55471407369837574132010-11-16T08:27:49.658-08:002010-11-16T08:27:49.658-08:00Just to nitpick, but her name is "Katara"...Just to nitpick, but her name is "Katara", thank you. Sorry; my obsession for doing things "right" got in the way.<br /><br />Anyway, I never quite understand shippers. Why so serious? The way I see it, characters end up with who they end up with. Is it because I'm male that I don't understand them?<br /><br />Oh, and finally, I discovered your blog recently and I like it. Especially the Sonichu analyses, it tells exactly what makes a bad work bad.Weeaboo Emprahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130291856365915088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-607830549822772762010-10-24T06:33:22.688-07:002010-10-24T06:33:22.688-07:00> The relationship began with an affair and was...> The relationship began with an affair and was cemented with a kiss over Jean Grey's corpse, but so what? These are mutant pariahs whose profession has a high mortality rate. They aren't part of the culture that sets the terms for what acceptable love is, they aren't necessarily going to be drawn to conventional notions of relationships, and they're going to seize any chance at happiness they can get. Of course, this is antithetical to fandom logic, but it allows for more story options.<br /><br />I've seen the "these aren't normal people, why should they be bound by normal morality" argument raised to justify superhero pairings like that, but it tends to miss the fact that until they became mutant-seperatists and a bargain-basement version of the Brotherhood, the whole point of the X-Men was that they fight to be accepted as part of human society, and thus surely, being subject to normal human morality is part of that, so making out with your mistress on your wife's grave is as bad an idea as organising death-squads.<br /><br />And having seen the "make one half of an 'OTP' couple be increasingly distant, then kill them off or otherwise get rid of them, while forcing the other together with someone new, who's been there for them all along" too many times in comics, I'd find it hard to credit NXM for being any more of a "deconstruction of the OTP" than any of the other times someone did it just because they wanted to split up a couple they found boring, and the recurring "marriage is bad for you, having an affair will make you a happier person" theme these comics make for is really rather worrying.<br /><br />Also, having largely stopped following the Sonic games after the 3rd one, it's strange seeing how that series just kept on adding more and more superfluous characters no-one really cares about.Evil G:DRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-18998936237870404282010-10-19T23:55:43.798-07:002010-10-19T23:55:43.798-07:00I've never cared about romantic subplots all t...I've never cared about romantic subplots all that much, and while I find some pairings more attractive than others, the soap-opera element has never been what I follow the media for.How To Get Your Ex Backhttp://getyourexbacknowhub.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-17526221853070105032010-10-18T14:24:29.740-07:002010-10-18T14:24:29.740-07:00MH-- Partially yes, and in the modern books, I wou...MH-- Partially yes, and in the modern books, I would break them up amongst many other things needed for a change of pace. But Morrison's story was more about Cyclops finding a life outside of his redhead fixation and boy scout demeanor, and Whedon handled the fallout of Scott's decision quite well. When they were portrayed as dysfunctional, repressed, and private individuals who treated the relationship as their one safe place ( but had their own lives ), it worked. It was once the pair settled into Scott/Jean - All Ethics that it stagnated, with Emma too often written as a more flirtatious version of Jean Grey.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17773416732192167277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-19453049213887982702010-10-18T08:53:28.625-07:002010-10-18T08:53:28.625-07:00You say "organizing death squads" like i...You say "organizing death squads" like it's a bad thing.E. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211698571194443222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-52697451686846873772010-10-18T08:23:45.095-07:002010-10-18T08:23:45.095-07:00Doesn't your interest in the Summers/Frost pai...Doesn't your interest in the Summers/Frost pairing have more to do with your personal baggage - your dislike of "shipping" - than any particular chemistry between the duo? What shared interests do Summers & Frost have, beyond organizing death squads and laying guilt trips on their subordinates?Michael Hoskinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302540308587868138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-52663443505669698252010-10-17T17:04:32.488-07:002010-10-17T17:04:32.488-07:00Nothing I'm especially proud of at the moment....Nothing I'm especially proud of at the moment. ^^; I have an epic in my head that I've been trying to get out onto paper for about five years, but Life keeps happening and I keep re-starting the project after a year of inactivity. I'm starting again this week, having (hopefully) found and fixed all the problems in execution from prior attempts.<br /><br />I also still have a webcomic up from a project a collaborator and I started in my senior year of high school: www.azale.org. It's not particularly polished, and I'd have probably approached it completely differently today.E. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211698571194443222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-47252622826999853452010-10-17T15:20:12.187-07:002010-10-17T15:20:12.187-07:00Good point re: Gwen, modern MJ, and Carlie, E. Wil...Good point re: Gwen, modern MJ, and Carlie, E. Wilson. I didn't know you were a writer as well; is any of your work available online?<br /><br />Also good point from Lindsay re: Scott's feelings for Jean. I liked how Whedon presented Jean, as leaving a permanent impact on Scott's life but not preventing him from living his life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17773416732192167277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-50718880462278853822010-10-17T13:31:21.075-07:002010-10-17T13:31:21.075-07:00I'd always thought that the reason Mary Jane W...I'd always thought that the reason Mary Jane Watson became a more interesting interest for Peter Parker as opposed to Gwen Stacy boiled down to Gwen being conceived as The Girlfriend, and not being given much else to do aside from that. MJ became Peter's partner through an organic and inelegant series of events that, while often handled poorly, felt more like a real relationship in its turmoil. <br /><br />History repeats itself: the most bland media incarnation of MJ is in the films, where she's considered The Girlfriend from the start. The most bland member of the new supporting cast following OMD is Carlie Cooper, who's had The Girlfriend label on her head since day one.<br /><br />And the bigger personal irony is that I've never cared about romantic subplots all that much, and while I find some pairings more attractive than others, the soap-opera element has never been what I follow the media for. In my own work, I don't even bother to introduce a romantic subplot among primary characters, because I already know that I'm bad at writing relationships, and it bores me besides.E. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211698571194443222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169626575812155292.post-66727210127590950292010-10-17T13:24:20.195-07:002010-10-17T13:24:20.195-07:00Nice post!
Your postmodern approach to Sonichu ha...Nice post!<br /><br />Your postmodern approach to Sonichu has been really interesting, and I love what you have to say about "One True Relationship" syndrome.<br /><br />(I really loved what Grant Morrison did with having Scott fall in love with Emma, while never exactly falling *out* of love with Jean --- it's just that Emma was there for him in a way that Jean really hadn't been since she became the Phoenix. Of course, Scott has had other love interests before --- Colleen Wing and Madelyne Pryor come to mind --- but those relationships were more "filling in the gaps while Jean is (temporarily) dead" things, whereas Emma came along while Jean was still alive. I think Emma has pushed Scott's character to evolve in ways that it hasn't for a very long time; not since the *first* time Jean died or the time Scott fell out with Professor X over his proper role as leader of the X-Men).<br /><br />With Harry Potter, I wasn't crazy about Harry/Ginny (at their young ages, an age gap of a few years can translate into seriously creepy power-dynamic issues, when the same gap would be a nonissue once both characters were out of their teens), but I like Hermione/Ron. It works, even though you totally don't expect it to.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860246538349067232noreply@blogger.com