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[scarfman]

• Mon, 14:58: Man Of Steel is an imaginary story/Elseworld: what if Jonathan Kent was a coward?
• Mon, 22:09: Nobody’s immune to breast cancer. http://t.co/Of3mo3fhRh
• Tue, 08:00: I realized yesterday I can now never go back and do the AKOTAS version of the Sir Urre story. When I... http://t.co/SpZgufsPLH
• Tue, 09:43: Picked the right weekend to get new tires, didn't I, Omaha?

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Okay, we finally found a point of agreement on Man of Steel. I liked the movie overall, but I had SERIOUS ISSUES with the depiction of Jonathan Kent. Even the suggestion that Clark should let people due rather than reveal his secret is, yes, cowardly, even and especially when it's his own life that Clark could be saving.

I don't have nearly as many issues with the way Clark is depicted, exactly, because it made some degree of sense after that kind of paranoid upbringing, and I enjoyed the unusual approach of dropping Clark right into the deep end with adversaries that are his equals before he really had a chance to explore his abilities.

The idea that a Jonathan Kent raised in the modern day would somehow be more jaded and distrustful of authority than one raised at the turn of the LAST century, in the age of robber barons ... that's just self-indulgent post-Boomer wankery, the continued insistence of modern cynics that they have it so much worse and are so much smarter and more "realistic" than any previous generation.

[scarfman]

Yes, but that's what everything else I don't like about Man Of Steel devolves from.