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Should I be so bothered?
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08-31-2021, 12:37 PM
Kendiesel937
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viper2382
You should be bothered. These are our cultural myths. Touchstones that we all know. Star Wars, Gi Joe, Star Trek, Ghost busters etc. What we have now are skin suits. They wear the skin of our cultural myths, that is the brand and names of characters, but what's inside isn't the characters or stories we love. The soul, what really counts, what we loved and admired about that cultural myth has been stripped and what is left is worn as a poor imitation to make money. There's not an established market for say... Slashing Dragon, but call it Snake Eyes and you have an established audience. They put a skin suit of Snake Eyes on a generic martial arts movie to sell the movie to us. What has come before is not acknowledged and has been discarded in favor of a new myth.
There's a deep truth to this. Grant Morrison has an excellent book called Supergods where he talks about the idea of comic characters as modern gods & myths, even entities in their own rights. Obv Neil Gaiman has American Gods which plays with similar themes. People boil it down to "boo-hoo, your funny book character changed!" but it's deeper than that. These are 30, 40, 100 year old characters that have specific, deep meaning to a lot of people. Sure, the average person may just "like" snake eyes cuz he's cool, but there's someone out there who clung to snake eyes as a kid to avoid an abusive childhood or something.
Even on a surface level though... it's offensive from a marketing perspective. You're tricked into consuming something that you wouldn't be interested in if it wasn't dressed up something you're fond of. My argument is always... if your story is good enough, make it on its own. Don't shoehorn it into the skin of something I love just to sell it to me.
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