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Seeing this tweet from an official Scooby Doo franchise is dissapointing to say the least.
Either way, here is YOUR reminder that Daphne Blake is....
• A skilled martial artist and surfer
• A television personality/reporter
• A leader
• The glue that holds Mystery Inc. together
Daphne Blake has always been way more than just "The Hot one", So let me ask you...
You know, I’m not saying the older superhero movies by Raimi and Nolan and even Singer were perfect, but I always got the feeling they were treating their comic book source material as literature to be adapted. Raimi’s movies were specifically based on the Lee/Dikto run of Amazing Spider-Man. X2 was based on God Loves, Man Kills. And The Dark Knight Rises is a blend of Knightfall, No Man’s Land, and The Dark Knight Returns. The changes made to the comics were to streamline and simplify sprawling, elaborate storylines into two hour, self-contained movies.
I get the feeling from the new MCU stuff like Black Widow and Eternals that they’re taking the source material, strip-mining it, feeding it into a wood chipper, then using the raw grist like fucking gravel to make the parking lot of what they were going to make anyway. Like MCU Spider-Man. They decided “oh, we’re riffing on teen movies, we’re doing The Breakfast Club with superheroes, let’s make his love interest Ally Sheedy.” And then they called that character ‘MJ’ for no reason. “Oh, let’s give him a dorky best friend, he can be both a schlub and the guy who sits at a computer and tells Spider-Man things over the radio.” And then they call that character Ned Leeds for no reason.
And Eternals seems like more of the same, where they’re taking Jack Kirby—JACK KIRBY—concepts and not engaging with his themes at all, just doing their own thing and naming it after his stuff, even though the characterizations and races and sexualities and even genders are changed. There’s no inspiration taken from the comics, just a vague premise that’s Telephone-gamed into incomprehensibility by studio notes and ‘subversive’ writers.
Man, how depressing to think that fan service these days isn’t recreating an iconic image or line from the comics, like Peter Parker’s costume in the trash or Mary Jane calling him tiger, but instead just—“We named this completely original character Taskmaster and gave her, not him, a lame version of the same costume. Please clap.”
Kevin Smith going from the guy complaining about all the pointless, inaccurate changes that Jon Peters wanted to make to his Superman Lives script that would completely miss the point of the story and make it unfaithful to the source material–to the guy who made Masters of the Universe: Revelations.
You know, I’m not saying the older superhero movies by Raimi and Nolan and even Singer were perfect, but I always got the feeling they were treating their comic book source material as literature to be adapted. Raimi’s movies were specifically based on the Lee/Dikto run of Amazing Spider-Man. X2 was based on God Loves, Man Kills. And The Dark Knight Rises is a blend of Knightfall, No Man’s Land, and The Dark Knight Returns. The changes made to the comics were to streamline and simplify sprawling, elaborate storylines into two hour, self-contained movies.
I get the feeling from the new MCU stuff like Black Widow and Eternals that they’re taking the source material, strip-mining it, feeding it into a wood chipper, then using the raw grist like fucking gravel to make the parking lot of what they were going to make anyway. Like MCU Spider-Man. They decided “oh, we’re riffing on teen movies, we’re doing The Breakfast Club with superheroes, let’s make his love interest Ally Sheedy.” And then they called that character ‘MJ’ for no reason. “Oh, let’s give him a dorky best friend, he can be both a schlub and the guy who sits at a computer and tells Spider-Man things over the radio.” And then they call that character Ned Leeds for no reason.
And Eternals seems like more of the same, where they’re taking Jack Kirby—JACK KIRBY—concepts and not engaging with his themes at all, just doing their own thing and naming it after his stuff, even though the characterizations and races and sexualities and even genders are changed. There’s no inspiration taken from the comics, just a vague premise that’s Telephone-gamed into incomprehensibility by studio notes and ‘subversive’ writers.
Man, how depressing to think that fan service these days isn’t recreating an iconic image or line from the comics, like Peter Parker’s costume in the trash or Mary Jane calling him tiger, but instead just—“We named this completely original character Taskmaster and gave her, not him, a lame version of the same costume. Please clap.”
