Saturday, September 11, 2004
The Plot of “Crisis on Infinite Earths”
The main plot of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" is that a blob of antimatter is destroying one parallel universe after another. Heroes from different earths join together to save the remaining five earths. At the end, only one earth survives, as it was meant to be.
The story explains how there was a boo boo during the creation of the world, and instead of a single universe, there were many created. This was the birth to the multi-universe. That explains why there is a Superman from the thirties, one from the fifties, one from today. That is why Superman and the gang never seem to age. They actually do age, but middle-age Superman lives in another earth.
The coolest part of the whole story is how the plot kills most of these superheroes. Finally, your fantasy of killing lame heores becomes true.
The story explains how there was a boo boo during the creation of the world, and instead of a single universe, there were many created. This was the birth to the multi-universe. That explains why there is a Superman from the thirties, one from the fifties, one from today. That is why Superman and the gang never seem to age. They actually do age, but middle-age Superman lives in another earth.
The coolest part of the whole story is how the plot kills most of these superheroes. Finally, your fantasy of killing lame heores becomes true.
Friday, September 10, 2004
The Coolest Concepts in Sci-Fi Series have the Lamest Origins
I like to read how creative people got their ideas. I like to read how my favorite shows were made. If you are like me, you enjoy this kind of thing. If you are not, DON’T DO IT!
You will discover that those great ideas and concepts that you loved were created for some mundane reason. Even worse, that the author is a moron. Well, maybe not a moron, but he is not as great as you once thought he was.
Take the teletransporters from Stark Trek. The coolest things. They made the other sci-fi series of the time look pathetic. I thought that Roddenberry was a visionary. Later I learned that he thought of it because he was too cheap to make a shuttle ship. The teletransporters saved him money.
In Star Wars, I thought that the smear under the floating desert vehicle of Luke Skywalker was some kind of magnetic field. Kewl! Instead, it was vaseline trying to hide the wheels of the car. Lucas hated this trick and "fixed" it on this later editing of the movies. More on Lucas later.
You will discover that those great ideas and concepts that you loved were created for some mundane reason. Even worse, that the author is a moron. Well, maybe not a moron, but he is not as great as you once thought he was.
Take the teletransporters from Stark Trek. The coolest things. They made the other sci-fi series of the time look pathetic. I thought that Roddenberry was a visionary. Later I learned that he thought of it because he was too cheap to make a shuttle ship. The teletransporters saved him money.
In Star Wars, I thought that the smear under the floating desert vehicle of Luke Skywalker was some kind of magnetic field. Kewl! Instead, it was vaseline trying to hide the wheels of the car. Lucas hated this trick and "fixed" it on this later editing of the movies. More on Lucas later.
Did I Major in Comic Books?
This post begins a number of short pieces about heroes. I am reading the 1980s classic "Crisis on Infinite Earths." The plot is about how the different parallel dimensions of the universe die, one by one, until there is only one single universe left. I will discuss more of this classic hokey plot line later.
This is one of the first times that I am reading super-hero comics after ten years of not reading them. In the mean time, I graduated from college with a degree in Classical Civilizations. I studied quite a bit about Greek and Roman mythology. Actually, there is no way that one can escape Greek or Roman mythology when one is studying their history and poetry.
What I realized was that the meat of Greco-Roman mythology is a lot like comic books that have too many words and no pictures. It’s fun. I had a lot of fun reading about dudes who married their moms, fathers who kill their daughters so that they can bring back the slut wife of his brother, and horny gods who rape virgins.
What a great major!
This is one of the first times that I am reading super-hero comics after ten years of not reading them. In the mean time, I graduated from college with a degree in Classical Civilizations. I studied quite a bit about Greek and Roman mythology. Actually, there is no way that one can escape Greek or Roman mythology when one is studying their history and poetry.
What I realized was that the meat of Greco-Roman mythology is a lot like comic books that have too many words and no pictures. It’s fun. I had a lot of fun reading about dudes who married their moms, fathers who kill their daughters so that they can bring back the slut wife of his brother, and horny gods who rape virgins.
What a great major!
