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⌈ Secret Post #779 ⌋

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[Watchmen]

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[Dungeons & Dragons cartoon]

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[The Twilight Zone, "People Are Alike All Over"]

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[Bones]

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[Breakfast Television Toronto]

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[Hetalia, Home Improvement, Fried Green Tomatoes]

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[Azumanga Daioh]

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TPTB, The Powers That Be. It may be more of a TV fandom thing, basically those in charge. It can mean the writers/producers/etc but it can also mean the network folk too.

Those in charge, basically. Nabbed from the Buffy fandom (maybe?) and in wide spread use since. TV tropes probably has a thing on it.

As for that comic? *snickers* That IS bad (in a good way), probably why half the Smallville fics I've ever read (though not a great number, not a big fan since it started to go downhill in S2) are Clark/Bruce.

And I'm the same with my fandoms *g* I think most dedicated fans are!

Ah, I thought it was something like that.

Bruce and Clark are pretty... yeah. Just - yeah. The name of the comic is Superman/Batman. And that's not even exaggerating the comic that much.

Smallville just has some epic Clark/Lex, though. But I've only seen Season One and a few episodes of season two.

Oh yeah, same here. I think it would have been great to let Lex take a different route than usual, risky yes, but great. There was a very real possibility that he could have denied his traditional destiny and remained good but oh no, they had to go do the 'best friends, experiments, descent into darkness oh my, foe!' thing.

*headbangs*

Not the only reason the show went down hill though.

The problem with Smallville is they deviated from the comics so much that they clutched at what they didn't deviate from, if that makes sense.

Ah well. At least I can get the comics references.

From what I've heard there were early versions where Clark and Lex knew each other in childhood and got along or something. So it's not THAT unfaithful but I take your meaning.

Still, I wish that's how it went. And that they wouldn't make Lana so bloody full of tears and sobbing and emo.

Well, that's true. Lex was a Superboy fanboy, and had an entire room devoted entirely for him. Then it blew up, Lex lost his hair and hated Superboy forever.

...Yeah. But technically that's not canon; in fact, the most recent story (Superman: Birthright, very good, by the way) with Lex and Clark being friends in Smallville was only written after the idea proved so popular in Smallville.

Look! You made me go off again.

Less emo, more fun would be better for a lot of characters.

It's not cannon? I'm guessing cannon works differently in comic fandoms then?

A lot of comics have been around since the late thirties and forties, so after all that time, things change. In the eighties, DC had this event, Crisis on Infinite Earths that was basically supposed to reboot the entire universe to make it more streamlined and understandable... which worked for a few years. So anything pre-crisis was up in the air. The old Superboy adventures were no longer canon and stuff like that.

Then they discovered they liked rebooting canon and did it every few years. :/

Plus, they go through writers so fast that if a writer doesn't like something, they can retcon it by saying it never happened or was because of a "clone, robot or imaginary story", or sometimes they just ignore it. And then the next writer might say that it really wasn't a robot at all. And sometimes they'll try to say that everything that was ever in a comic starring that character is canon no matter how contradictory, absurd or confusing that makes it.

The only way you can get through it is roll with it. Or complain a lot.

LOL

Sounds like Doctor Who's cannon on steroids, and that's hard to do. It's been around 45 years as TV shows (form most of it) books by various groups, audio dramas, some comics and it ends up somewhat like that. Though not as bad and no re-start per se, really. Ummm...

But yes, sounds pretty hectic. But it'd be more accurate to say that it IS canon, but it's canon in a reality that has now been wiped out and thus a kind of canon AU?

Yeah, that works.

It's easier when you look at them as individual arcs or stories.

But if you ever get confused by the canon of superhero-based tv shows, that's because they don't have a very good role model. See also: Heroes.

*snickers*

Oh Heroes. The first season was genius. After that it kind of... it isn't bad but it isn't genius anymore, it couldn't keep it and got too.... comicy in a bad way I suppose.

Yeah, first season took all the good things from comics, and then... yeah. It's okay right now, but it got pretty bad. It went all confusing and Summers' Family Tree-y (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummersFamilyTree). (WARNING: TVTropes link)

I heard about that, and that sort of thing doesn't sell a show to me. Too much exposure to Eastenders growing up, dear Valen.

Wel except fro this one Harry Potter fic where Harry is Snape's father which is just crack.

TV tropes is a drug, a very addicting drug. You listen to the musical example of this trope? Oh Q.

LUKE I AM YOUR FATHER'S BROTHER'S CLONE FROM AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE. ALSO I AM YOUR SISTER.

Musical example?

Transgender Jedi micro-organism spawned incestuous gay uncle yay!

And here (:http://www.subliminalmessages.com/settlement_71a.htm").

Subliminal messages?

media is full of them

Heh. Fair enough.

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