Like, here's my issue with the superhero discourse. I really don't think there's anything interesting in answering the question "what if Superman was real and he was good?" He's not, and if he were he wouldn't be good (or he'd die of stress within days).
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It's like asking "what if active interventionist God was real"? Well either everything would be perfect or fck him. The world is bad. Any mature fiction has to work from this premise
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And frankly children's fiction should too, because kids shouldn't grow up thinking things are going to be nice This isn't the same as stamping out all hope. Star Wars, the originals, taught me to expect something like the world we live in. It's not a huge ask.
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Philosophers talk about the "problem of evil" because the world is self evidently bad. Stories are about struggle because everyone has some badness they have to overcome. Suffering is a constant. Fiction that seeks to deny this is, truly, immature.
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This is not the same as endorsing the idea that really bad movies about Superman are actually good, but it's worth considering that maybe, no, Superman is not an inspirational character, he's a depressing one, because no one IRL will ever have that sort of power.
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Replying to @scottdagostino @BootlegGirl
That line from back in the day where Amy Pond describes both the Doctor and the space whale as being who they are because they're the last of their kind Having lost everything they ever loved, having nowhere to call home, all that power and nothing to use it for
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At long last, there was nothing left but to be kind
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The same idea Groundhog Day takes us through, that after he's completely burnt out on all the possible pleasures and desires and needs he could possibly have and has completely succumbed to despair only to find out he isn't allowed to die
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At the very end of everything there's no truth except that making people happy makes you happy, at least a little, and that that's just a tiny bit better than making people hurt
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I'm a sucker for those Sunday school style morals but only if it feels like you earned your way there, which Groundhog Day does in a way few movies do (the sheer black comedy of his endless suicide attempt montage)
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