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Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
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Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.

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PhD, Texas A&M, 2015. Software worker. Data nerd. My views are my own and never represent any employer.

Winona, MN, USA
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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

      Marvel’s current shows aren’t trying to be “morally ambiguous.” They’re trying to be *politically ambiguous*.That’s not at all the same, and please don’t taint the former with the latter It’s clear who the good guys are, with the only q who who isn’t a good guy will switch sides

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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

      Sort of furthermore, think about it like this: very few people are really willing to commit to either writing or reading stories centered on a large number of characters they find to be politically despicable, if that story centers on politics, and if the story feels real

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

      You can almost always tell when someone who’s of an opposing political faction to the author is being caricatured, whether in extremely mundane ways (Wizard Book Lady inserting digs at what she saw as Tony Blair’s incompetence) or more dramatic (alive Tom Clancy’s Democrats)

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    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

      Even when this is done with good intentions and even from someone who is trying to portray someone not all that far off from them, it usually goes wrong

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    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

      Like, Tom Clancy’s “gay Democratic congressman who can sometimes be worked with” is honestly about as understandable and relatable as, say, the Flag Smashers, even though I’m fairly sure Clancy was far further from even a centrist Democrat than Marvel’s writers from the Smashers

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      Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

      John Walker is clearly meant to be a conservative American veteran, but Marvel’s writers, being pretty plainly center to center left, are too far from him to *really* write him convincingly

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        2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

          Anyway, this is why I think a lot of writers avoid bringing up politics. It’s not just “offense,” it’s that if you write about people who are mostly like you in a core way, you’re more likely to capture genuine things about them With different cultures etc. you can research

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        3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19

          But trying to portray someone you find loathsome sympathetically isn’t always worthwhile, and it’s not like you can get a Republican (or Democrat, or Tory, or whatever) “diversity consultant” (so to speak) who isn’t going to want to rewrite the whole thing

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof Apr 19
          Replying to @BootlegGirl

          a bunch of left-of-center writers doing their best to portray a "sympathetic, understandable" conservative veteran, except what they think makes a person sympathetic and understandable is pretty different than what a conservative veteran thinks does

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        3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 19
          Replying to @perdricof

          Right (Not to circle around to a dead horse, but this is one reason I find Orson Scott Card so fascinating - he actually does think like a liberal, and writes people incredibly ideologically different from him largely convincingly, even in his blind spots)

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        2. Jezibel‏ @cymaiden Apr 19
          Replying to @BootlegGirl

          Isn't 616 John Walker much more openly reactionary?

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        3. Kajel‏ @Kajel96536401 Apr 19
          Replying to @cymaiden @BootlegGirl

          Yeah he’s way more jingoistic and openly insensitive to other ppl in the comic. I’m kind of glad they toned that down for the F&TWS and made him more someone who’s scared of ppl getting hurt if he doesn’t act “strong” and has emotional instability.

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        2. Alisha Grauso‏Verified account @AlishaGrauso Apr 19
          Replying to @BootlegGirl

          I don't read him as that at all. I don't see him as having any particular political leanings for a reason. The entire point of the show is moral ambiguity. His issues have nothing to do with his politics, but with toxic masculinity and how the military has broken him.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 19
          Replying to @AlishaGrauso @BootlegGirl

          Okay but realistically someone with his background has like a 70-80% chance of being a lifelong Republican voter

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        2. Social Distancing Since 1971‏ @ThatStevenGrant Apr 20
          Replying to @BootlegGirl

          I'm a bit tired of seeing virtually all veterans positioned as conservatives in these things. There are whole organizations of left-leaning vets, so they're neither non-existent nor of negligible numbers in real life, but on-screen vets range mainly from law'n'order obsessives /1

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        3. Social Distancing Since 1971‏ @ThatStevenGrant Apr 20
          Replying to @ThatStevenGrant @BootlegGirl

          to mass shooters to ultraviolent alt-Reich terrorists...

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