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Oct. 26th, 2007 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenThere should be a law. If you can't do satire, you're not allowed.
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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.
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.
