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Post by WildKnight on Apr 18, 2012 11:58:33 GMT -5
I don't have a problem with the possibility of resolution through diplomacy... I have a problem with the actuality of a major plot arc being resolved that way, yes.
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Post by Beacon on Apr 18, 2012 23:08:40 GMT -5
I don't think a bunch of damaged teens trusting each other is lazy. If anything its the road less traveled.
Personally I think the “lazy” writing choice is a paint-by-numbers plot where …
Superboy has a “very special episode” where he beats his addiction to the shield patches.
Miss Martian runs away after she is outed as a White Martian. Then she shows up later to save everyone.
Artemis gets jealous of Arsenal (or whatever Roy calls himself this week) and betrays the team to the villains. Then she changes her mind, declares her love for Wally, and dies heroically while saving the day.
Not only is it mind-numbingly predicable but someone will have died so modern-day comic fans can claim its “realistic”.
20% more awesome?
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Post by WildKnight on Apr 18, 2012 23:24:02 GMT -5
I don't care about "realistic" as far as character deaths, but they do give storylines meaning.
There's also a bit of irony to you complaining about "modern day comic book fans" in the exact same post that you're complaining about comic book stories being written the way they've been written for 7 decades.
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Post by takewithfood on Apr 19, 2012 6:19:20 GMT -5
I don't think a bunch of damaged teens trusting each other is lazy. If anything its the road less traveled. Personally I think the “lazy” writing choice is a paint-by-numbers plot where … Superboy has a “very special episode” where he beats his addiction to the shield patches. Miss Martian runs away after she is outed as a White Martian. Then she shows up later to save everyone. Artemis gets jealous of Arsenal (or whatever Roy calls himself this week) and betrays the team to the villains. Then she changes her mind, declares her love for Wally, and dies heroically while saving the day. Not only is it mind-numbingly predicable but someone will have died so modern-day comic fans can claim its “realistic”. You hit the nail on the head so hard with this. I've read a lot of fan forums in search of information about the show, and the really dedicated fans are heavily into spoilers and speculation. I'm pretty sure I've seen these almost exactly these predictions many times, because they write themselves. Shockingly, I disagree, and I started writing several paragraphs explaining how and why, but I ran out of care again. ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Apr 19, 2012 6:28:04 GMT -5
Shockingly, I disagree, and I started writing several paragraphs explaining how and why, but I ran out of care again. ~TWF You don't disagree, you just want to disagree WITH ME. Nobody would be defending this crap if it weren't me pointing out that it is, in fact, crap. Not even the Bronies can actually think that episode was not poorly written.
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Post by takewithfood on Apr 19, 2012 8:14:28 GMT -5
You don't disagree, you just want to disagree WITH ME. That's pretty rude. Do you really think that? ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Apr 19, 2012 8:35:02 GMT -5
You don't disagree, you just want to disagree WITH ME. That's pretty rude. Do you really think that? ~TWF I would think it more arrogant (paranoid?) than rude... But seriously. I can't wrap my mind around defending that episode. I just can't. What's odd to me is that this particular thread was started because I saw an episode of this show (at random) that I liked and was curious about, and everyone else seemed to hate it.
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Post by Black Sam on Apr 19, 2012 9:37:32 GMT -5
Overall I like the show. I thought that last episode blew goat cheese (with all due respect to Goats!) It was terribly rushed, poorly written -- definitely felt like it was slapped together by editors or something. I didn't mind the conclusion, just the way they brought it together. It felt like a thread people had stopped posting in and the GM, in an effort to save the game, did a half-baked instant wrap-up so he could move on to the next thread...plus he wanted his GF to drop into the game so he slipped her in at the very end there...
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Post by takewithfood on Apr 19, 2012 11:00:14 GMT -5
Well I think I, and the many people who happen to agree with me, have made our positions and our reasons pretty clear, WK. We have opinions that differ in some ways from yours. ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Apr 19, 2012 11:06:47 GMT -5
I really don't, actually...
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Post by takewithfood on Apr 19, 2012 11:28:09 GMT -5
Well I couldn't find one that says "YOU COULD DEAL WITH IT, HOWEVER THIS IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION OPEN TO YOU!" I decided to make do.
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Apr 19, 2012 11:32:22 GMT -5
Well I couldn't find one that says "YOU COULD DEAL WITH IT, HOWEVER THIS IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION OPEN TO YOU!" I decided to make do. ~TWF Laziness. That's just laziness. Also, toddler Korra had quite the pot belly.
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Post by takewithfood on Apr 19, 2012 13:01:54 GMT -5
Seriously: ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Apr 19, 2012 13:11:41 GMT -5
Young Avatars get a steady diet of beer(?)
Do we have a thread for this show?
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Post by takewithfood on Apr 19, 2012 14:26:14 GMT -5
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