Wasn’t it a big plot point in the Voyager premiere that the ship’s computers had part-biological self repairing elements? Did they ever do anything with that? Seems like a good thread to tug on if you’re going to shoehorn the Borg into every episode.
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Whenever I’m done with my X-Files lead in timeslot show zine, I should probably tackle Voyager’s.
Legend and Deadly Games and probably some special broadcasts of Homeboys from Outer Space
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Oh and Nowhere Man! That was the best one.
The Vr.5 to Voyager’s X-Files if you will.
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If a question begins…
odds are that the answer to this is “no”
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Gone the way of the crew tensions and Kes being a baby god.
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There are at least two episodes where the gel packs get sick actually. the one I remember really clearly it’s because neelix has been cultivating bacteria in the mess hall to make alien cheese. It’s the first season episode where Tuvok is a dick to all the maquis guys while doing training exercises.
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Ohhhh yes!!!
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I’m currently catching up on season 3 of Stargirl, and it seems to be getting really geoff johns. It’s still goofy as hell, with Luke Wilson as Dad, and the single most heterosexual superhero protagonist in recent memory, but it’s starting to feel likw Geoff Johns is really more than just a supervising producer finally and Im not happy about it.
edit: Mike Berbiglia as the voice of the genie before this season was some brilliant casting, the new VA is not terrible but a real step down.
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Entire theatre audibly groaned at Kanye’s Power playing during an action scene in Black Adam
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had a good 20 year run of making the joke of “they’re running out of superhero ideas what’s next a hypno hustler movie?”
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We still have US 1 the bionic trucker (until Marky Mark gets cast as him)
my entire life i’ve found superheroes baffling at best and aesthetically revolting at worst; we’re all nerds here and have guilty pleasures we can’t explain but i’m just wondering if i’ve always been missing something?
the only time i felt like i was “getting” it was when i saw the corny-on-purpose '60s batman show, which made me think perhaps these properties had begun to take themselves too seriously over time, but when looking into it i read that that was in fact a departure from and mockery of the original tone, so now i’m even more confused
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How do you feel about adventure myths like e.g. the story of Hercules? How do you feel about basic hero’s journey stuff like Star Wars?
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I think you might like Jack Cole’s Plastic Man since it’s purposefully campy and the cartooning is good. To me, the draw is similar to shonen anime. It’s fun to see what weird new bad guys will appear and the wacky ways that heroes will beat them. So many attempts to inject pathos into superheroes fail though because there’s just no meaning to most of the characters’ lives.
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hero stuff i suppose always felt like a template that i sort of had to be told was important rather than something that deeply or immediately resonated. i think i was always intensely visually focused and not the sort of person to project myself onto a character in a story. i like some aspects of Star Wars but when i think about it i’m always thinking about the set or background design rather than anything the characters do.
as a kid i did enjoy light adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix, which i guess seem less self-important and a bit more “observational”? – as in, it feels like the lens i’m looking at the characters through is kind of third-person and impartial – it’s not super important to the enjoyment that i personally think Tintin is really cool or want to be him, just that he’s a character who makes sense in the world and will set off series of events that are entertaining. so maybe brawny/flashy hero designs rub me wrong because i would always sense a latent presumption in how i’m supposed to feel about them.
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How do you feel about Odysseus? The ‘clever hero’ archetype that doesn’t rely on brawn or bravado is certainly a subtype of heroic narratives, and it does exist in superhero stuff though is rare compared to euro adventure comics
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So I’ve read Superhero comics my entire life. It’s a big part of what I do. But I get this. There are just some things that don’t make sense. I guess if you don’t like 60’s Batman I’d say there are superhero things that run the gambit tonally. From jokier Marvel comics (Nextwave), to straight-up bizarre off-color indy superhero comics (SCUD), to macabre tales of death and crime (Punisher), to hopeful (the better parts of Superman), to soap opera (Spider-Man), to crime procedural (most of Batman), and so on.
That being said I have tried and just couldn’t get into ‘nerd’ things like wrestling or tabletop RPGs.
Some things just don’t click and that’s ok.
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i guess i feel like the appeal of superhero stuff is that it’s kind of a mongrel format, there are little bits of old crime and horror comics in there and also fragments of sci fi and older radio pulp stuff but the key is that instead of synthesizing any of it it’s all just kind of lumped together and made even more garish and delirious by having it all capped with the costumes and other assorted bits of genre weirdness (themed cars and pets, etc). once you get past that layer they honestly mostly turn out to be kind of depressingly stodgy feeling in every other respect, it’s only very occasionally that they manage to feel like an escalation beyond their sources by picking up at exactly the point where they start to feel absurd
so i feel like the 60s batman show really is more true to the format than the original rehashes of the shadow or whatever, another superhero thing i like in the same vein is the Flaming Carrot / Mystery Men comics (v little relation to the movie) which have a similar tone of self parody but mix it with kind of a beatnik enjoyment of the idea of just roaming around at night getting into unintelligible adventures. i like the one where he fights frankenstein in an alley for the right to play with an old tin can
otherwise in general the appeal of superhero stuff comes from their moving tales of a fight against impossible odds
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