“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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THE CBR COMMUNITY STANDARDS & RULES ~ So... what's your excuse now?
Brubaker / Phillips need to move to another genre.
About halfway through Reckless volume 1, I put it down. I've seen these characters and read these tropes before, multiple times, from them. I mean, they're still good comics. But after a decade and half of doomed whiteboy protagonists falling prey to their own human foibles noir, I'm ready for something new. They're a talented duo; make a sci-fi or romance or something. Just anything new.
Well, it's not that there aren't a lot of people making their opinion known and calling him out. There are, but Gina got called out and scores of right wingers and grifters lept to her defense, but most of them have been silent on the Whedon situation. They care about one person getting "cancelled" by so-called "woke" Hollywood, but not the other? I thought CANCEL CULTURE tm was destroying the nation?! My guess is that it's cuz despite him maybe being a jerk or bully he has a former reputation of being a "male feminist" therefore they don't care what happens to him. ( And the truth of it is probably nothing will happen to him. There's a long history of directors who have been abusive on the set and gotten away with it).
I was really referring to how the grifters who love to complain about so-called "woke" Hollywood and CANCEL CULTURE haven't said much about the Whedon situation. We haven't even much of a "The Left Is Eating Itself" in regards to this. Part of me thinks it's cuz Joss is a liberal and they like seeing him get taken down a peg. The other part thinks it's cuz they all copy each other and are waiting for like GeeksandGamers or Ben Shaprio to do the first video, then everyone else will know what talking points to clone.
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
Of course, Whedon has the stink of mistreating his cast and crew, plus there's even a hint of something very inappropriate with a teenage Michelle Tractenberg in the mix, so it's not really apples to apples here. Otherwise, obviously both sides love it when the enemy gets skewered and hate it when their own gets the treatment. I believe they call that human nature.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Indiana Jones is the greatest movie hero to never beat the bad guy by himself, so he's...cool, I guess, but not very lucky. He always needs some literal deus ex machina to win. Usually God himself helps him out, but sometimes it's Shiva or aliens. Even Han was of more material use, both for transport and for heroics, (after all, his intervention let Luke live to blow up the Death Star). Love both characters, but damn, Indy just never won by himself.
Not true, Indiana was very useful to the bad guys in every movie. He found the Ark and Grail for the Nazis, the stones for the Temple thugs and the alien ship for the Commies. Without him, they would have nothing to show.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
You know, it took me a while to realize he always "won" by having some supernatural being or alien intercede. On the plus side for him, though, it sure seems God likes him...
And Shiva. And aliens.