Post by sagg on Oct 30, 2010 16:49:29 GMT -5
I've read about how posters have lamented about SD:MI becoming something of a "soap opera", with our favorite characters having actual lives, and what they go through while solving mysteries. I'd like to compare SD to say, a comic book with heroes.
Take Superman (or any known hero), for example. There was an episode of "Superman, the Animated Series", in which Clark Kent was riding in his car to produce some evidence to clear a wrongly convicted man from the gas chamber, when it suddenly blew up (the person who had done the real crime had discovered what Kent was doing, and had made the bomb). Kent, as Superman of course, would've easily gotten out without a scratch had it not been for what he thought was a witness who had seen him. Everyone thought Kent was dead, and he even had a "funeral". It turns out that the witness really couldn't see without his glasses, and eventually everything turned out alright in the end, with a little help from his friend Lana Lang.
Getting to my point, during that episode, after secretly going home to the Kent farm, Clark told his parents that he'd "go crazy" if he was only Superman all of the time, that he'd have no life outside of Superman. After all, he was Clark Kent before he was Superman. What other life could he have? ;D
Think about what would happen if a comic book was solely based on Supes if he had never been Clark Kent. It would simply read about him saving people and fighting villains, both regular and super-powered ones. We'd never know about what, if any, personal life he'd have, save for perhaps an occasional jaunt to his Fortress of Solitude to rest up for the next fight. Don't get me wrong: Some people here would probably go for that (see Space Ghost, Birdman, the Galaxy Trio), but I'd think it would get a tad stale after a time. (Ironically, "The Brave and the Bold" focuses solely on Batman, and not Bruce Wayne, save for a very good episode with the Spectre and Phantom Stranger on Batman's origin, but since we know about Wayne's private life already, this is negligible.)
You know what I'm getting at, of course.
I have a fondness for Scooby Doo, but simply seeing him and the gang solving mysteries only all of the time, then waiting for the next episode, well, would grow stale after a while. This is why I like SD:MI so much. This series gives the gang a much-needed update. We see they now have homes they go to, with parents that they sometimes get in conflict with (Sound familiar?). They have lives now that we can relate to (somewhat). They have flaws that we can relate to (somewhat). They still solve mysteries, but we can now see behind the scenes what they do, even before, during and after said mysteries. As for the "soap opera" angle, don't we all have "soap opera" lives, just not as um, "exciting" as the real ones on TV (dying as they are), though some of us may try our darnedest to make them come true, it seems?
What do you think? Speculate! Debate! ;D
Take Superman (or any known hero), for example. There was an episode of "Superman, the Animated Series", in which Clark Kent was riding in his car to produce some evidence to clear a wrongly convicted man from the gas chamber, when it suddenly blew up (the person who had done the real crime had discovered what Kent was doing, and had made the bomb). Kent, as Superman of course, would've easily gotten out without a scratch had it not been for what he thought was a witness who had seen him. Everyone thought Kent was dead, and he even had a "funeral". It turns out that the witness really couldn't see without his glasses, and eventually everything turned out alright in the end, with a little help from his friend Lana Lang.
Getting to my point, during that episode, after secretly going home to the Kent farm, Clark told his parents that he'd "go crazy" if he was only Superman all of the time, that he'd have no life outside of Superman. After all, he was Clark Kent before he was Superman. What other life could he have? ;D
Think about what would happen if a comic book was solely based on Supes if he had never been Clark Kent. It would simply read about him saving people and fighting villains, both regular and super-powered ones. We'd never know about what, if any, personal life he'd have, save for perhaps an occasional jaunt to his Fortress of Solitude to rest up for the next fight. Don't get me wrong: Some people here would probably go for that (see Space Ghost, Birdman, the Galaxy Trio), but I'd think it would get a tad stale after a time. (Ironically, "The Brave and the Bold" focuses solely on Batman, and not Bruce Wayne, save for a very good episode with the Spectre and Phantom Stranger on Batman's origin, but since we know about Wayne's private life already, this is negligible.)
You know what I'm getting at, of course.
I have a fondness for Scooby Doo, but simply seeing him and the gang solving mysteries only all of the time, then waiting for the next episode, well, would grow stale after a while. This is why I like SD:MI so much. This series gives the gang a much-needed update. We see they now have homes they go to, with parents that they sometimes get in conflict with (Sound familiar?). They have lives now that we can relate to (somewhat). They have flaws that we can relate to (somewhat). They still solve mysteries, but we can now see behind the scenes what they do, even before, during and after said mysteries. As for the "soap opera" angle, don't we all have "soap opera" lives, just not as um, "exciting" as the real ones on TV (dying as they are), though some of us may try our darnedest to make them come true, it seems? What do you think? Speculate! Debate! ;D
I hope you're obviously feeling better!