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⌈ Secret Post #2979 ⌋

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Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[dethtoll]

I've been reading this weird comic, Wasteland (despite coming out around the same time, it's nothing to do with the game I've been playing, though the shared title is why I started reading) by John Ostrander and Del Close, and I'm struck by two things: One, this is the kind of stuff DC made Vertigo for, and two, man Del Close is OUT THERE.

Anyway the 5th issue had a problem where it printed with the cover for the 6th issue, which is bad because it had a rotating cast of artists and that meant the cover artist's work was nowhere to be seen for that issue... so they reprinted #5 a week later with the proper cover and ran #6 with a blank cover.

They got this in the letter column:



And I just look at the modern-day industry's obsession with variant covers and sob myself to sleep.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

American TV and movies have great writing and special effects and all that jazz, but the people are so boring to look at. Especially the women, who are all painfully thin and plastic surgeryed up to the nines.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

This. It's not until I started watching more tv from outside the US that I realized just how homogeneous people look on US television. It's not just that shows are predominantly white (though they often are), it's that you see the same body type/facial structure over and over again. Women are either tall and skinny or short and skinny, unless they're for comic relief in which case they're permitted to be larger than a size 2. All leading men are tall and square jawed. Very few women who look older than 35, unless they're playing a sassy grandma or something.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Have you noticed how many young male American actors have immobile cheeks? They barely move their lips, and their cheek muscles are sort of frozen place all the freaking time. Same with their foreheads, they've got this constant moody scowl, and they daren't move their eyebrows because apparently their forehead muscles don't work. Is this some sort of strange disabling disease sweeping Hollywood? Does the upcoming generation actually know how to act with their facial expressions at all?

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. Could be "real men don't emote," but could also be botox.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like above anon said. It's hard to say if it's just lack of acting skills or Botox. Acting in the U.S. doesn't seem to involve the face so much, and I'm not sure why. You see amazing talent from the UK, classically trained actors who have a wide range of emotions even without ever seeing their body language. But in the U.S.? Not so much. Which is not to say we don't have ANY good actors, it's just that casting directors prioritize good looks and name recognition over actual skill.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

That's really dumb of them, I'm sorry.

And I thought you were going to say something about Del Close or John Ostrander.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[dethtoll]

Okay maybe it was a bit of a plug for the comic because it's genuinely weird and something DC would never print today.

Old rant. Old, old rant

[feotakahari]

I hate heroic fantasy's obsession with characters who're so wise and powerful they can do literally anything and any character who calls them out on it is portrayed as wrong for it. Erase a child's memories and forcibly rewrite her identity, murder a young man in front of his girlfriend, let an entire species go extinct because they're no longer useful . . . It's all fine and dandy, because they're so wise and good that it would be pointless to question them.

Re: Old rant. Old, old rant

[bigpaw]

Wait what series in particular are those examples from? They sound pretty ridiculous haha.

Re: Old rant. Old, old rant

[feotakahari]

First was something by Jane Lindskold--I remember it involved a girl raised by wolves. Second was some short story in an anthology. Third was Lone Wolf by Joe Dever. (I could write an entire essay about how disenchanted I am with Lone Wolf now that I'm no longer eight years old.)

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[shortysc22]

Oh man, don't get me started on different covers and exclusive editions.

I collect the Harry Potter books because the covers from different countries are fascinating. Some are better than others and some just use the American covers. But I actually have multiple copies of the books in English just because of the cover art.

Meanwhile, I bought Guardians of the Galaxy on bluray from Walmart so I could have the Groot cover.

And Target always has exclusive editions of the Hunger Games movies with bonus features, so I buy from there. Or extra songs on certain CDs (Luke Bryan, Cassadee Pope, Florida Georgia Line, and Taylor Swift, to name a few)

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[comma_chameleon]

Hehe... I have four copies of Good Omens specifically for the variant covers. >.>;

And a lot of my money goes to J-cds because they ALWAYS have variant versions with different songs/or different DVDs.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[shortysc22]

I completely forgot about the K-cds!! They do the same thing where they'll version A&B which is just different covers then they'll "repackage" the album and give it new covers and add more songs! For them, I'll usually buy one and just download the rest of the music.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[comma_chameleon]

Yeah sometimes if it's just one different song on each version or something I'll just pick the cover I like most and then dl the extra song. I don't feel guilty because they're still getting my money. XD

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[elaminator]

Yearly game releases are pretty frustrating. As someone who loves Assassin's Creed and has enjoyed each game I've played, it needs to stop. Spend some more damn time on your games. (I'm about...three games behind including Liberation, and after hearing all the complaints about how buggy Unity is I might just watch a let's play instead of buying it. Unless I can catch it on sale for like...$10.)

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[squeakycat]

As someone whose playing Unity right now - It's actually not that bad. I haven't run into any bugs at all yet, so from what I've seen they've fixed a lot of them.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[elaminator]

Your icon always makes me hungry... Yum.

*cough* Anyway, while I imagine they've fixed most the bugs by now, I would probably end up getting the disc version and be unable to update it. So I'd be stuck with the bugs. If that weren't the case I would def go ahead and buy it.

Are you enjoying it?

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

I love movies. LOVE them. I've written screenplays. I've written one actual feature film that exists and can be watched. Cinema may be my favorite artform, and the writing thereof is of particular interest to me.

So if I ever meet that son of a bitch who wrote Save The Cat! I am going to kick him in the crotch so hard people with his same haircut will fall down.

(For those not as broken as me, that book, and to a lesser extent those like it, is a major reason why movies are all getting disturbingly samey.)

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[dethtoll]

You'd have to dig him up. He's dead.

(Personally I blame Joss Whedon for most of the sameyness of film and many, many other mediums that I enjoy)

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Okay with respect you can't possibly blame this shit on Whedon. I don't like him much, either, but while Whedon might have been influential on certain stylistic elements of popular film, he can't be blamed for the deeper, structural similarities we're talking about. That's ridiculous.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[temporaly]

Generic romance subplots in movies, where the protagonist and love interest seemingly get together because...the audience is supposed to like romance? It's character motivation! Because it just is! I get so much secondhand embarrassment watching couples that exist for that thinly-veiled reason. I get the idea the same could be said of a lot of US TV series, but I don't watch them.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[feotakahari]

Video games, too, and sometimes books. The transition from "female character who exists to have sex with the MMC" sometimes seems like it's only gone as far as "female character who exists to beat up a few henchmen and then have sex with the MMC."

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[temporaly]

Yeah, sadly it does happen in a lot of mediums :/ Movies were the first to come to mind because my emotional reaction tends to be stronger (probably because when I watch movies like that it's usually together with other people), I don't play a lot of video games, and I'm really picky with books that seem like they'd have that.

Re: Shit you wish your favourite medium didn't do

[(Anonymous)]

This is what I hate the most about Korean dramas. There simply always has to be a sappy romance subplot. No matter what genre, there simply has to be. At least one, but more often than not, any halfway decent looking character gets paired up. Ugh.