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Comment on Where are the heroes? by bobsandiego

bobsandiego — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:46:08 +0000

Magento is right that jtants should not have to hide, Magento is wrong that the only outcome if conflict and war. His attempt to kill everyone on those ships is a reaction far too out of measaure.
Xavier is right that humanty can coexist with Mutant, but he is worng to insist on patiently waiting in the closet os waiting for them to invite mutant to the lunch counters, equality is never given but only won.
Of course the audience is with Magneto! It’s really really tough to make someone taking vengence on the Nazi’s a bad guy. He could bugger puppies in his spare time and we’d still cheer when he took out a bad of brownshirts.

Comment on Where are the heroes? by Torie

Torie — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:26:21 +0000

@ BSD
It’s true, but I think the audience should be able to at least _conceive_ of Xavier’s vision, instead of spending the whole movie thinking “Man, this Magneto guy is AWESOME and right and that Xavier guy’s a total loser.”

Comment on Where are the heroes? by BSD

BSD — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:22:43 +0000

I chalk it up to Peckinpah’s famous “it is impossible to make an anti-war movie”. Film is not a media well-suited to the triumph of compassion, tolerance, compromise, and humanism over vengeance, hatred, and awesome fighting action. The summer blockbuster format of film, of course, is doubly so unsuited.

Comment on Where are the heroes? by Jon

Jon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:15:04 +0000

Professor Xavier is a jerk.

Comment on It’s been a while, hasn’t it? by bobsandiego

bobsandiego — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:26:57 +0000

If your taste for game play includes vicious attacks on fellow players, Cthulhu 500 is one of our favorite games. Tons of Lovecraft puns, easy game play, and plays fast. More of a beer & Pretzels game Inn Fighting the game of a Bar Brawl in a D7D tavern is silly fun. From Blood and Card Stock games Showbiz Shuffle is a funny game of movie production. (when you have David Duchovny you make a genre film.) Out of Print games so maybe you find them on eBay Isacc Asimov Presents: Star Traders Lots of SF in-jokes as players rush about filling contract throughout the galacy. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Board Game Simple game, but some love it. One player plays a big bad from the TV shows the rst play Buffy and The Sccobies. Biggest defect, little thinking required. I have played this game stupidly on purpose and stil won.

Comment on It’s been a while, hasn’t it? by Torie

Torie — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:40:29 +0000

I only played it once, the night I got it, and we played with four people. I really think the issue was playing the “basic” game, which is extremely dull, especially for the zombie players. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to play around with it this weekend.

Any game recommendations from your game nights?

Comment on It’s been a while, hasn’t it? by bobsandiego

bobsandiego — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:55:31 +0000

We have Last Night On Earth in our board games collection but we don’t play it that often. Not because we dislike it but because we tend to play short fast games on our B&C game nights. (Loser gets to select the next game.)
How mnay people do you genneraly have playing? I might have some suggestions…

Comment on It’s time to put an end to your trek through the stars… by Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:21:34 +0000

@ Torie

I know, RIGHT? And imagine it in Bakula’s most sanctimonious delivery. I was stunned at how bad it was.

Maybe I can skip that episode when I try to finish watching Enterprise… *sigh*

Comment on Trim the sails and roam the sea… by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:02:56 +0000

Interesting points about YA.

My perspective on YA is perhaps unusual among the people I know, because I tend to see it as a new phenomenon — even though obviously I read it through my growing-up phase in the form of Heinlein’s juveniles (and other books, of course) — it just wasn’t (to my knowledge) called YA back then, which is why I’ve always felt a little distrustful of that label as having uncomfortable shades of being a market segmentation as well as a genre.

What’s interesting to me is that in the Heinlein books, earning the respect of adults is often a key theme. They are frequently wise and more knowledgeable than the kids, though they can also be clueless or inattentive; and there’s always a tension between the author’s approval for paternalism and respect for knowledgeable elders vs. general distrust of authority (adults as parents are usually wise unless not being so is a key flaw that defines their character; adults as authority figures are often not to be trusted).

What I’m wondering is if there is a connection between a more self-conscious identification of these as Books For Young People that in some way bears upon the separation between the younger protagonist from the adult world. Is there something in the labeling that, self-consciously or no, influences the content?

Probably not, particularly when speaking in such vague generalities, but it’s kind of an interesting idea. I should think more about YA that I’ve read, really.

Comment on It’s time to put an end to your trek through the stars… by Torie

Torie — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:26:58 +0000

@ Eugene

…

Um, wow.