Yeah.
Kelsey Grammar's Beast feels like an evolution (pun intended!) of the cartoon version.
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Yeah.
Kelsey Grammar's Beast feels like an evolution (pun intended!) of the cartoon version.
I think there are X-men characters who are popular with the general audiences (or at least known to them) which haven't really gotten the spotlight in previous cartoons.
Colossus for instance....
Okay, just to be clear, this is not an anti-X-men '97 thread at all. I'm as excited as everyone here about the impending return of the classic show and I hope it gets at least a few seasons under its...
Yeah honestly, the whole point of this show is to throwback to a bygone era of the X-men franchise.
In fact, as fascinated as I would be to see them reimagine 21st century characters and plotlines...
But that's kinda the point. The TAS was based largely on the Claremont era (albeit with the 90's lineup). Emma being an X-man, and her relationship with Cyclops, are far more 'modern' concepts.
I think part of the challenge is that Pre-Crisis you didn't have a whole lot of complex characterisation in comic-books. So if we were to contrast the personalities of Pre-Crisis Superman and...
Not underselling the other works at all. But Batman is what brought Nolan the mainstream recognition, and the critical and commercial success that paved the way for a string of successes - Inception...
True.
I must say that I'm tired of this idea that any franchise that has historically been seen as progressive, or having a bit more socio-political depth than the average mainstream media...
Yeah.
People forget how genre-bending Batman's real 'Year One' was - apart from the usual murder mysteries and organized crime, you had vampires, bioterrorism, a would-be dictator with a giant...
You're onto something there with Xavier's background. I think if we're getting a reboot, and we're focusing on the same characters, then it makes sense to at least explore aspects of their...
Sadly, that's not the world we live in.
I mean, sure, people do get bent out of shape over race-bending/gender-bending secondary characters. Again, as I said, there's a deeper socio-political context to it beyond "comic book accuracy" that...
Spot on!
That said, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds did indulge in a bit of racebending with the casting of former Enterprise Captain April - depicted as a white man in the 70's cartoon and now cast...
True.
Mind you, the counter to that then becomes "Oh people don't really care about these legacy/spin-off characters...they only care about the originals so you need to change the originals for...
When it comes to the issue of race/ethnicity/gender/sexual orientation etc. well, the fact is, that these are pretty politically charged decisions - whether intended to be or not - especially in our...
Didn't this kinda happen during IC?
Kal-L took a much more black-and-white approach to the world.
I wonder if that's leftover from the original plan they apparently had for BND - a somewhat 'harder' reboot which would have seen the undoing of Gwen's death and literally all Spider-Man continuity...
I know this might technically be off-topic here, but I feel that we as a Batman fandom have a special ownership of Christopher Nolan given that he made his name directing a trilogy about our favorite...
Nah, one of the preview images shows a poster of the World's Fair 1956 above Bruce's bedroom as a kid.
My guess is that the main timeline will be 60's-80's (or maybe just focused on the 60's),...
I agree. I think his idea was that he realized the need to maintain some kind of permanent status quo with the characters which kept them in their recognizable (and 'brandable') forms, while still...
Whether Superman starts out as a 'vigilante' Champion of the Oppressed, or a Boy Scout and law-abiding hero, depends on whether or not the Kents are alive when he puts on the suit the first time.
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Yeah, its tricky. Especially with Marvel, where they've more or less had the same unbroken continuity since 1962 (arguably since 1939).
But time has inevitably passed in the Marvel Universe, even...
True.
Mind you, Stan Lee did propose the "illusion of change" approach to Marvel continuity...which has since mutated into brand-enforced stagnancy.
But Stan also conceived of the Marvel...
Totally agree!
And that's the point I've been making all along...USM may or may not see a direct adaptation, but it'll certainly help contribute to popularizing forward momentum in Peter Parker's...
I dunno about USM, but I do feel there's a higher than average chance the next iteration of Peter Parker on-screen will be an adult.