Have you ever seen Gargoyles? Now there was a good cartoon, though the angst factor was through the roof sometimes. =]
Marvel in the 80s was GOOD. You were quite right to stop there. It seemed to get better for a few precious years and then it PLUMMETED into shite. *sigh*
I'm sort of enjoying DC, though writers Brad Meltzer and Bill Willingham both needs to be shot... =] I'm rapidly getting tired of JLA, but JSA has a lot of wonderfully quirky characters and a sense of humanity to it. Checkmate actually deals with superhuman politics in a believable fashion (and I love the fact that Checkmate is working on a UN charter and has to make sure not to annoy the security council too much - that's what bugs me about most superheroes, they're not freaking accountable to anyone). And of course I adore the Atom... =]
You have NO idea how happy I am to have avoided Buffy all my life. I feel so lucky. Also clever enough to smell a rat a parsec away. :P:P:P
Aw, Buffy was really great for the first three and a half seasons. It's just that it ran for seven seasons... ^_^;;
The main idea with the series was always that there was the ordinary world, which had the kind of problems and opportunities that you'd expect, and then there was the supernatural world, which was a sort of larger-than-life reflection of it. The series started falling apart when the writers started forgetting about introducing mundane plotlines and concerns for the characters - after that, it was just about fighting one pointless monster after another, with no resonance to anything the audience could relate to. Still, it was very good before that. :)
I Hyper Agree with that and annotate: Needing things cause grief to everyone.
Hmm, I guess you're right. I've never been as horrible to people as I've been when I thought I needed something from them. ^_^;
There might be something to Buddhism and so forth, saying that want is the root of all suffering. I think it sounds kind of dull to want nothing, but maybe there's some kind of loophole in Buddhism too, saying that it's okay to want stuff as long as you don't mind if you don't get it. I should look into it.
I kind of like the idea that life is just a big game - and the best part is that you can choose your own objectives and criteria for winning. And it's fun if you win, but even if you lose, it's not like it's going to matter once the game is over. =]
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Marvel in the 80s was GOOD. You were quite right to stop there. It seemed to get better for a few precious years and then it PLUMMETED into shite. *sigh*
I'm sort of enjoying DC, though writers Brad Meltzer and Bill Willingham both needs to be shot... =] I'm rapidly getting tired of JLA, but JSA has a lot of wonderfully quirky characters and a sense of humanity to it. Checkmate actually deals with superhuman politics in a believable fashion (and I love the fact that Checkmate is working on a UN charter and has to make sure not to annoy the security council too much - that's what bugs me about most superheroes, they're not freaking accountable to anyone). And of course I adore the Atom... =]
You have NO idea how happy I am to have avoided Buffy all my life. I feel so lucky. Also clever enough to smell a rat a parsec away. :P:P:P
Aw, Buffy was really great for the first three and a half seasons. It's just that it ran for seven seasons... ^_^;;
The main idea with the series was always that there was the ordinary world, which had the kind of problems and opportunities that you'd expect, and then there was the supernatural world, which was a sort of larger-than-life reflection of it. The series started falling apart when the writers started forgetting about introducing mundane plotlines and concerns for the characters - after that, it was just about fighting one pointless monster after another, with no resonance to anything the audience could relate to. Still, it was very good before that. :)
I Hyper Agree with that and annotate: Needing things cause grief to everyone.
Hmm, I guess you're right. I've never been as horrible to people as I've been when I thought I needed something from them. ^_^;
There might be something to Buddhism and so forth, saying that want is the root of all suffering. I think it sounds kind of dull to want nothing, but maybe there's some kind of loophole in Buddhism too, saying that it's okay to want stuff as long as you don't mind if you don't get it. I should look into it.
I kind of like the idea that life is just a big game - and the best part is that you can choose your own objectives and criteria for winning. And it's fun if you win, but even if you lose, it's not like it's going to matter once the game is over. =]