I have been all through the academic world, and I assure you that aside from their actual academic work, they are just as petty and terrible as the rest of the world. Sometimes worse, because of the power dynamics involved in their world.
Edlund is the creator. Trust him to know what he’s doing.
It’s Ben Edlunds creation and he is writing and producing. I trust where he’ll go with it.
You know, one might see some of this if one watches his episodes of Angel. It did often tip over into a “darker,” “more grounded” Tick. Two words - “Smile Time.”
For whatever it’s worth, “Hot Fuzz” was pretty dark and grounded. I’m going to keep on hoping.
Edlund could do what Snyder seems to think is impossible. He can write dark brutal stories with humor and heart.
I’d be worried if it wasn’t Edlund making the statement, and if I thought all he has ever done was The Tick. Edlund has a real talent for integrating the strange and whimsical into dark and grounded worlds. Supernatural: Wishful Thinking, and Angel: Smile Time are pretty good examples of his ability to be dark,…
I have faith in Edlund.
Why did everybody saw Joker in his performance? Personally I saw Riddler. His posturing about how he is smarter than everyone else fits with Riddler more.
Soooooo good.
That said, when she joins the battle against Doomsday she instantly becomes the shining light of the movie. Maybe it’s because she’s not weight down with all the other dumb baggage of the title heroes, or maybe she just got lucky, but Wonder Woman is completely badass without ever venturing into that “heartless…
It’s like we gotta hear how his parents died and how much money he has and how much gadgets he has.
If he’s so amazing, how come his parents are still dead?
Why can’t we just lose Snyder? He’s clearly going to do what he wants, how he wants, steaming merrily onward despite failures, criticism, or logic. Honestly, the last decent film he directed was 300, and that wasn’t without issues.
Paul Dini, he already created a shared animated DCU so we know he can do it.
Except that adhering to the status quo gives us yet another white-bread culturally-appropriating boring Mighty Whitey narrative, and changing it gives us an interesting look at an American Born Chinese reconnecting with his cultural heritage.
You also completely missed the point of the article. The point isn’t the white people can’t be good at martial arts, it’s that the story trope of “White Dude goes to foreign land and becomes better at martial arts than any of the natives” is a racist trope that could have been rectified.
Did we read the same article? Did you not FINISH reading the article? Or are you trolling Rob? I didn’t get the sense that Iron Fist should be Asian because of martial arts, but that he should be Asian because he learns/masters martial arts in K’un L’un and defeats Shou-Lun.
I mean, it would be nice to have more Asian actors on the screen, but can Hollywood please give them roles that doesn’t have anything to do with martial arts or exotic mysticism?
Last week, white actor Finn Jones (best known as Loras Tyrell on Game of Thrones) was cast as Danny Rand, the white…