Arrr, I don't know what I'm doin'.
So on Tuesday I'd felt depressed and opted not to go on Tumblr -- not particularly unusual. By Wednesday evening I felt a little better, though had been anxious all day. But that night I was struck by the worst anxiety about going onto the site for some unknown reason; not hyperventilating, but my heart was racing and I felt really scared and my
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It is pretty weird -- I guess they wanted more of a character hook for Sam, so they gave him some of Roscoe's role. If they were dedicated to the 'Tuskeegee airman' schtick for Turbine from the beginning, the Lisa's-boyfriend thing couldn't go to him. And in a sort of way, Roscoe was actually split into three -- Lisa isn't exactly a ghost, but she kind of is, so arguably that's another aspect taken from Roscoe. And this is one of the reasons I'm pissed off, because with everything taken from him, there's no way he can come back in any recognizable form. At least Wally or James or Evan can come back at some point, but if somebody wanted to bring Roscoe back he'd have to be so different as to be unrecognizable, or he'd seem deriative of Turbine and Sam and (arguably) Lisa.
It probably will blow over eventually -- but maybe not until 15 years from now, and maybe only partially. What if DC mostly reverts continuity, but decides to keep Turbine instead of Roscoe? (yes, I refuse to call Turbine that). Or decides that Len is totally better with powers, or James never existed, or whatever. I'm reeeeeeeally skeptical that DC would do a hard revert, just as they didn't do a hard reboot for some things that are popular like the GL and Batbooks. They'll want to keep the aspects they think are good, and we still might not be happy about it. Yeah, I'm a pessimist, but I've been pretty good at predicting the reboot so far :\
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lj apparently does that sometimes, but it's annoying and confusing.
but your draft got there in time, you were over the 10k limit anyway, and all's well :)
i don't think that they know anything about sam either. i thought about that this morning in the shower - no, not like that ;) - and the rogues aren't themselves at ALL. not one of them - besides cold at times - acts like one. with the top is just insult to injury and he has it the worst, but those people aren't rogues. what has sam done other than? "i'm lisa's romoe to her juliet...kinda". what has mick done besides "i'm hot and len sucks"? i've dissociated these people from the rogues in my mind, they're different people.
the problem about the reboot is that in theory it presents a multitude of opportunities for new stories, a whole new start. which as you said, they ignored for gl, batman etc. this reboot isn't a new start as much as "well, i'Ve read a wikipedia summary about this character and i'm too lazy to do research. and i don't want people to tell me i'm unfaithful.....reboot!"
it's just lazy, and the best books that came out of the reboot? could have been done without the reboot.
dc had elseworlds, they could have used that.
you know, i thought way back...in 2009 or so about making a comm called Denialville. Where you could write everything you wanted, as long as it was in denial about character's death, show's cancelment etc.
if traffic to lj wasn't so low, i still might do it.
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Sam has been kind of useless and there isn't much he can do outside the mirrorverse. Pretty much all his dialogue has been stilted lovey-dovey stuff with Lisa or hostility at Len, which is pretty limited. It does kind of make me chuckle though that the book made a production out of 'Lisa and Sam can never be together again!'....and then in the last two issues we see that she can visit the mirrorverse without problem.
Yeah, I like to think of them as people from a different universe. Which is what I'd tried to do from the beginning, but time has made me better at it (fortunately). Though ultimately the less they appear and the less I see of them (in the book or on the Internet), the happier I am. But one thing that annoys the hell out of me is when I image-Google "Roscoe Dillon" -- a ton of New 52 stuff comes up, and it feels like the universe is taunting me :P
Allegedly, the DC writers were told to treat the New 52 as "fanfic", as in 'base your stuff on the existing character but go wild with it and do as you please'. I don't know if it's true, but it's disturbingly plausible and explains a lot. And you're right, the best 52 books could have been done without a reboot.
I don't see why you shouldn't create the comm -- sure, it wouldn't have as many posters as it would have had in LJ's heyday, but you might get some and it could be interesting. I've been wanting to try kick-starting the Rogues comm again, but the only problem is that I have zero interest in talking about the current book and I'm not sure what we'd talk about. Any ideas?
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For Citizen Cold, that was fine, everyone knew it wouldn't last and it was meant to show how broken this world was. But can you really do a comic - presumably planning to do it for a longer time - when your character has been reduced to a one-trick pony? Portal to Mirrorworld - end of story.
Allegedly, the DC writers were told to treat the New 52 as "fanfic", as in 'base your stuff on the existing character but go wild with it and do as you please'.
oh, an awesome opportunity to apply knowledge I aquired in university - yes, concerning fanfiction.
What all comic book writers - except original creators - do....is 90% fanfiction.
There's this thing called Archontic Fiction (from the word archive) which means that every written text produces an archive. In there are stored characters, settings, plots - everything that he story contains.
And when you produce archontic fiction, you take parts from the archive, add them to your new story and create a new text.
And thereby feed the new stuff back into the archive.
That's what comic book writers do, that's what fanfiction writers do.
The only difference between them is that fanfiction is free, mostly published on the internet, and not official.
which makes most of new dcu....bad almost-fanfic.
I don't see why you shouldn't create the comm -- sure, it wouldn't have as many posters as it would have had in LJ's heyday, but you might get some and it could be interesting. I've been wanting to try kick-starting the Rogues comm again, but the only problem is that I have zero interest in talking about the current book and I'm not sure what we'd talk about. Any ideas?
but that means work -.-
well, I don't know for the comm. I mean, technically one half of piper/trickster has been dead for years and it's still going on, and the rogues are mostly alive.
I thought that projects should spark some activity - but the bang is already going, and a lot of the participants don't really interact with others or reply to posts...or even comments. Or messages.
In theory, a challenge brought always a lot of activity.
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Johns in particular is obviously writing fanfic -- not that this is necessarily a bad thing, just that he makes it obvious. However, when a company approaches their creative properties with a deliberate plan of making wild changes, the results are often not going to be good. The readers are pissed off by the pointless changes, and when writers just throw things against the wall to see what sticks, you end up with a lot of jgarbage.
True, unfortunatlely....maybe it's a losing proposition. I guess I'll try, if I can think of something.
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