RE: [OOC] Steampunk?
02-05-2022, 06:59 AM (This post was last modified: 02-05-2022, 07:00 AM by Labster.)
02-05-2022, 06:59 AM (This post was last modified: 02-05-2022, 07:00 AM by Labster.)
That kind of feels like a choice between whether or not I want mushrooms or anchovies on my pizza. While I recognize that they are both technically foods, I don't want either of them to touch my pizza, because they are gross. They are non-gross to some people, apparently. I'll swallow it if I have to.
The pushback from me is that supers very often make non-super characters redundant. Given the box office returns these days, I may have an unpopular position, but I've never claimed not to be a hipster. But it's not just Superman. I've been disliking Doctor Who since Chris Chibnall took over because they write him/her too much like a superhero, and rely too much on villain races labeled "always chaotic evil". Basically extend the "Superman is boring" argument you heard at the comic shop, and apply it to anyone else in a cape.
On the steampunk side... honestly, it's just Girl Genius I dislike. I used to read it and liked it for several years, and then there was just a point where it just seemed like a bunch of repetitive wacky hijinks with no character development. And worse, it seemed like the uh, what are they called... oh, sparks, yes, the sparks make everyone else suffer so they can have wacky hijinks. And in that sense, it's the same criticism as for the superhero genre.
I haven't read/watched a lot of steampunk, but I think it could be done with:
Wild Wild West
Sakura Wars
Nadia - I once had them on a list I wanted in my own apartment/cast, but that didn't happen
Steel Angel Kurumi - I haven't seen it but I watched the OP and I see a tornado run, so that's in
Maybe:
Princess Principal: don't know anything about this one
Legend: I remember I liked this series and that it starred MacGuyver and Q, but it got canceled early and I honestly can't remember it very well
Murdoch Mysteries: Okay this one is slightly more Edwardian than Victorian, and not all that punk in outlook, but there's plenty of gadgets and inventors and crime and suspicious American spies trying to subvert the poor Canadians. And a lie detector machine with colored liquids in glass tubes (they only use it once in the series because the writers realize it's OP, but it's a work of art)
It really isn't many sources, but think about how many stories you'd actually want to set there. Star Trek would visit a "planet" and only ever go to one place on the surface.
The pushback from me is that supers very often make non-super characters redundant. Given the box office returns these days, I may have an unpopular position, but I've never claimed not to be a hipster. But it's not just Superman. I've been disliking Doctor Who since Chris Chibnall took over because they write him/her too much like a superhero, and rely too much on villain races labeled "always chaotic evil". Basically extend the "Superman is boring" argument you heard at the comic shop, and apply it to anyone else in a cape.
On the steampunk side... honestly, it's just Girl Genius I dislike. I used to read it and liked it for several years, and then there was just a point where it just seemed like a bunch of repetitive wacky hijinks with no character development. And worse, it seemed like the uh, what are they called... oh, sparks, yes, the sparks make everyone else suffer so they can have wacky hijinks. And in that sense, it's the same criticism as for the superhero genre.
I haven't read/watched a lot of steampunk, but I think it could be done with:
Wild Wild West
Sakura Wars
Nadia - I once had them on a list I wanted in my own apartment/cast, but that didn't happen
Steel Angel Kurumi - I haven't seen it but I watched the OP and I see a tornado run, so that's in
Maybe:
Princess Principal: don't know anything about this one
Legend: I remember I liked this series and that it starred MacGuyver and Q, but it got canceled early and I honestly can't remember it very well
Murdoch Mysteries: Okay this one is slightly more Edwardian than Victorian, and not all that punk in outlook, but there's plenty of gadgets and inventors and crime and suspicious American spies trying to subvert the poor Canadians. And a lie detector machine with colored liquids in glass tubes (they only use it once in the series because the writers realize it's OP, but it's a work of art)
It really isn't many sources, but think about how many stories you'd actually want to set there. Star Trek would visit a "planet" and only ever go to one place on the surface.
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