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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-10-25 07:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #1757 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1757 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 119 secrets from Secret Submission Post #.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

[identity profile] flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
I guess you haven't caught on to the way just about everything in T&B takes something totally unoriginal from the conventions of super hero comics and kind of takes it apart. Everything about Barnaby that makes him seem cliche is to me what also makes him interesting because of the other more unexpected ways he's very much not Bruce Wayne. His Batman-like background is one of the several things about him that's exploited because the viewership of Hero TV find more appeal in that kind of a hero, but in reality he's a textbook Slytherin, a perfectly decent person but still not exactly heroic in his motivations or ideology, and is very good at faking charm but actually a really dry, practical, unsociable kind of person who's generally more interested in robotics than people and would be much happier being something other than a Hero.

This whole show is about how phony the world of celebrity heroes is because it's made for entertainment and profit rather than practicality or true altruism, just like typical super hero fiction is outlandish and unrealistic because it's for entertainment. Without giving away anything about the second half of the season, I'll just say the parallels between Barnaby and Batman have to be intentional and are just a starting point of his character development, because the whole point is that he becomes more and more his own person instead of that image.

(Anonymous) 2011-10-28 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
^^^this