I think there was a time when "Comic book superheroes are modern mythology" was a good and useful corrective to a certain kind of kneejerk snobbery toward the subject and I think that time ended well before MCU Phase II, much less Phase III
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Like, it's a different thing with which you have a different relationship I really think it's important to stress that the process by which commercial fiction gets made and the process by which it gets consumed is very different from what is traditionally called mythology
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Yeah - I think what's worth stressing is the question of if there's some distinction between the figure of Spider-man, as he may exist across all media forms, and then the specific canon the movies. It's tougher since he's still copyrighted. This may change when it expires.
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I like that you shared your thoughts on it like this instead of quote tweeting, making fun and egging on the dog pile on someone who just had a take, possible a bad one. Wish more people would do that
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Part of the issue is that mythology is one of those words that means less the more closely you examine it, especially over time. Thor meant something very different to a Norse person in the 9th Century, when he was part of an active religious belief...
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than he did to Snorri in the 13th Century, for whom the stories of the gods were the fodder for commercial skaldic poems that had their own canon and rudimentary system of attribution. Or indeed to the Grimm Brothers or Wagner for whom they were national legends like...
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