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[trinityvixen]

There should be a law. If you can't do satire, you're not allowed.

darkling1 harped on the last Smallville episode as we watched, and I completely agree: making a bad guy out of a devoted fanboy is not only biting the hand that feeds the damn show, but is just...mean.

Satire works best to skewer the pretensions in society, attacks the upper, superior castes for their hypocrisy, mercilessness, or ignorance. Harping on the geekier fringe is plain bullying. Because asking that movies and television not butcher, cannibalize, rape or otherwise violate source material in the name of the almighty dollar is clearly CRAZY TALK. And anyone who says otherwise is a CRAZY PERSON.

This is the entire theme of my review this week at Pink Raygun. Because the more I thought about it, the more I got offended. Villifying comic book fans on a show that traces the origin of a comic book character? Really, Smallville, that's where you had to go? Right. Time to remind myself--again--why I still watch this show.

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[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

You know you really need to get on WOW one of these days so that we could have this conversation on the first "AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was harping on the "Evil Comicbook Geek Villain" last night over guild chat.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but he doesn't appreciate what BRILLIANT writers can do to the stupid source material! EEEEEEEvil, I tells you, EEEEEEEEEEEEVIL!

I'm really more insulted the more I think about it.