Originally Posted by
hellacre
I don't know about other people but when I read books as a child, and teenager I was attracted to the fantastical, mythical etc. I recalled when I saw WW for the first time with Lynda Carter, saw the Super Friends and read about Elves and Fairies, was introduced to Jedi and all sorts of powerful characters like wizards, witches, genies, Gods from different Pantheons, I never once thought...boy I want to ground them and I want them be like me and live like me in the mundane world I did. I dreamed of leaping and flying and twirling a light saber and using the force or moving objects with my mind. I never saw the sorceresses or princes or mermaid as lacking in feeling and emotions and not having challenges and needing to grow. Hell I wanted to be like them! I did not want to me in that who doesn't as a kid want to fly or cast spells or speak to animals???! When I read as an adult I can also empathize with different beings. I am not so blinkered and my mind so narrow I cannot work out what is fantasy or reality and that whether a work is fantastical or reality based...I can still connect with characters no matter where they are from. Trying to cut smww down, repress them to fit one mold than allowing them to be epic and expansive is like putting birds in a cage imo and clipping their wings.
Good lord, no one watching Lord of the Rings thinks Elves and Hobbits can't love or have the same emotional journey humans have or Star Wars wants Luke to stay on Tatooine and marry a girl there and raise kids in the desert or depending on the version, he should never have married Mara Jade but only been with someone regular else he could not be a hero. Clark and Diana are as humane as any good being, even not being human, ...it was never about race or power...but their innate goodness and compassion, nurturing and experiences . Humans are not all amazing. They can be truly evil when they want to be yet DC wants to suggest their dna do not hold them back from being great...they can do anything, go to space, rule kingdoms, marry up, inspire aliens, even police them etc but outsiders cannot because of their dna???. It is lazy , myopic writers who do this.