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I add another to the contemporary list of trends or directed focus. The "multiverse". Seems to show up everywhere, just like "timelines". And to misdirect and confuse or dispel concentration.
It really is amazing just how lacking in soul so many of these trends are. And the propaganda! Sheesh! It's worse than I've ever seen it...just shameless.
Shameless but also gameless. For those with standards.
And all the remakes! Usually don't improve or even add a different angle to originals, except the current banal social garbage.
Faster, faster, faster! More, more, more!
You can see the road markers and bumps when increased corporatism farmed it all out (kinder phrase than I could have used) and spoiled and soured the apple and just ran it all into the ground. And hardly anyone reads with leisure and enjoyment anymore. Just fills gaps to stay preoccupied with all their screen time and other pursuits. And most younger generations doing all their reading on screens...
Blah.
Damn spell check even tries to capitalize apple every time.
The corps have whipped their creative slavies to death at this point trying to change our general reality. It has worked for many, unfortunately. But real creatives know how to bide their time. And If Cliff is right then we'll be having a different reality fairly soon. People are sick of reading propaganda pieces and brain-melting books and stories. I don't blame them for not reading. But one day that will change. And when it does, there will be good new stories. I'm certain of it. And people will breathe a collective sigh of relief and settle in to read once again.
A great representation of all that was Chris Claremont writing the Uncanny X-Men which I grew up reading. Saw documentary on Amazon Prime awhile ago. He tried writing all related comic books as long as he could as they expanded it all out and really milked it. Treated it like his baby. Until he just couldn't do it anymore.
Talked about fun old creative think tanks and work environments before the "where there's a whip, there's a way" crowd took over.
That's a funny song in the old animated Lord of the Rings, btw...
I read a lot of those old X-Men comics. The Dark Phoenix saga was a great example. I know, things have really changed. I was part of a creative studio a long while ago, it was great fun. I miss it actually.
DELIGHTFUL!
😉
I add another to the contemporary list of trends or directed focus. The "multiverse". Seems to show up everywhere, just like "timelines". And to misdirect and confuse or dispel concentration.
The never ending cash cow franchise.
Continuity and consistency are more engaging...
😉
:-D
It really is amazing just how lacking in soul so many of these trends are. And the propaganda! Sheesh! It's worse than I've ever seen it...just shameless.
Shameless but also gameless. For those with standards.
And all the remakes! Usually don't improve or even add a different angle to originals, except the current banal social garbage.
Faster, faster, faster! More, more, more!
You can see the road markers and bumps when increased corporatism farmed it all out (kinder phrase than I could have used) and spoiled and soured the apple and just ran it all into the ground. And hardly anyone reads with leisure and enjoyment anymore. Just fills gaps to stay preoccupied with all their screen time and other pursuits. And most younger generations doing all their reading on screens...
Blah.
Damn spell check even tries to capitalize apple every time.
🤢
The corps have whipped their creative slavies to death at this point trying to change our general reality. It has worked for many, unfortunately. But real creatives know how to bide their time. And If Cliff is right then we'll be having a different reality fairly soon. People are sick of reading propaganda pieces and brain-melting books and stories. I don't blame them for not reading. But one day that will change. And when it does, there will be good new stories. I'm certain of it. And people will breathe a collective sigh of relief and settle in to read once again.
A great representation of all that was Chris Claremont writing the Uncanny X-Men which I grew up reading. Saw documentary on Amazon Prime awhile ago. He tried writing all related comic books as long as he could as they expanded it all out and really milked it. Treated it like his baby. Until he just couldn't do it anymore.
Talked about fun old creative think tanks and work environments before the "where there's a whip, there's a way" crowd took over.
That's a funny song in the old animated Lord of the Rings, btw...
I read a lot of those old X-Men comics. The Dark Phoenix saga was a great example. I know, things have really changed. I was part of a creative studio a long while ago, it was great fun. I miss it actually.
I dig.
Some great ones back in the good old days...
Can't even watch the X movies. Early ones were cheesy but fun, later ones I mostly avoided. Some casting was terrible, a few were decent.
Dark Phoenix was a great storyline. Mutant Massacre as well.
Could never watch DP movie. I loved her in Game of Thrones, but she's no Jean Grey.