7. I think way to make sense of this is to see HYRDA as a necessary device in serialized fiction to create retrospective continuity.
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18. Maybe I betray my bias and training as a historian, but this glib move from history to myth is troubling.
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19. As I said, in terms of first movie, Nazis aren't ultimate evil but just pawns of the true bad guys, HYDRA.
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@HeerJeet But of course in Gnosticism, it is knowledge of the falsity of the material world that saves. -
@BrentSirota Good point, I'm going to get to that.
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@HeerJeet Traditional Kirby theme, though; consider good/evil mutants, Eternals vs Deviants, hidden battles of 4th World on Earth. -
@HeerJeet I mean, this essay's about film, but 'hidden battle of good vs evil' & history becoming myth is classic Kirby/super-hero topos.
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