I also had a more favourable reaction to the trailer. I love Selina, she's pretty much the reason I got into comics in the first place, and I like that she owns her sexualisation. Sure she's drawn by men for men, but unlike the Selina of the past, she's not prepared to give everything up for the love/lust of Batman anymore. She plays by her rules, walks all over the men, and does so with complete smugness about the effect she has.
So in one way, yes the trailer is ridiculous: complete fanservice and total hyper-sexualisation. But on the other, Catwoman is the one woman character in comics I can see pulling this off without it damaging her characterisation. Sex is one of her weapons, and she chooses to use it without (usually) suffering any consequences. To me, her attitude exudes power and control, and a disregard for what society says she should do (ie be a "good girl").
See, I would be able to agree with that if the entire focus of the trailer hadn't been her sexiness. I do really like Catwoman/Selina, but this trailer, to me, is nothing more than blatant fanservice. It's the intensity of the "male gaze" that makes me uncomfortable with it.
IDK, I can see where you're coming from but I don't agree with it. I've read the same arguments in relation to Isabela in Dragon Age 2, and I still prefer using the Isabela-pants mod.
For me it's more that Selina puts her sexuality front and centre, it's her main weapon but also a show of complete ownership over her own body and self. Basically, if you put any other woman in that trailer I'd have major problems with it, but Selina knows the reaction she has and flaunts it to her advantage. It's for the male gaze, like the rest of comics, but she takes that gaze and whacks the perpetrators - no man can control her (nowadays!).
Any other woman, including the likes of Red Sonja, and it wouldn't work. And it wouldn't work if they'd put Selina in a Halle Berry Catwoman type costume. But this for me, really does work - the power and strength, I find Catwoman really empowering I guess.
Definitely a major problem when every other woman is portrayed the same way however.
I am looking forward to more news about Skywards Sword, AC: Revelations, Tomb Raider, the (potential?) upcoming new Nintendo console and anything else that is new, interesting and unexpected.
I am really really really really really excited for Skyrim, the AC game, and...the new Star Trek game =X Among like everything else though, tbh. I get excited just that there's so much gaming news at one time and then kinda sort it all out and decide what interested me most after the fact.
deleted and reposted so I could use a better icon alethea79June 5 2011, 16:51:40 UTC
Slightly OT, but I'm annoyed that E3 is now closed to any media/news site that doesn't get over 3K hits per month. My site has always been able to get in, but this year we can't even send one person because we fall short of 3K/month. We aren't the only ones either and a lot of smaller sites are being shut out. It sucks. I think they did this to keep out small-time penny-ante casual bloggers but they managed to shut out small legitimate media outlets as well. E3 was the best way for small sites to score great interviews and get hands-on impressions at the show, which lead to drawing in new visitors and helping the site grow. Instead, they just gave us all a big "fuck you." :(
TL;DR: E3 gave all small gaming sites the finger, so I'm not that excited about it this year aside from seeing the ME3 trailer/demo.
Re: deleted and reposted so I could use a better icon alethea79June 6 2011, 00:33:40 UTC
Indeed. Someone from a larger site wrote an editorial explaining why this was such a huge mistake, but I don't remember where it is or who wrote it. It was a pretty good piece. Small-time devs go to E3 to gain exposure for their projects, so why not small-time media outlets?
I've been to E3 three times: 2004, 2005, and 2008. I've seen it go from a fancy tradeshow to an overblown hyped-up orgy of pounding music and jiggling booth babes to a quiet set of business conferences with no hype and then back to a fancy tradeshow. When I went in 2008, it was just about right. I'm not at all happy with it anymore and it's become such a farce. :/
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So in one way, yes the trailer is ridiculous: complete fanservice and total hyper-sexualisation. But on the other, Catwoman is the one woman character in comics I can see pulling this off without it damaging her characterisation. Sex is one of her weapons, and she chooses to use it without (usually) suffering any consequences. To me, her attitude exudes power and control, and a disregard for what society says she should do (ie be a "good girl").
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IDK, I can see where you're coming from but I don't agree with it. I've read the same arguments in relation to Isabela in Dragon Age 2, and I still prefer using the Isabela-pants mod.
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Any other woman, including the likes of Red Sonja, and it wouldn't work. And it wouldn't work if they'd put Selina in a Halle Berry Catwoman type costume. But this for me, really does work - the power and strength, I find Catwoman really empowering I guess.
Definitely a major problem when every other woman is portrayed the same way however.
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And I'm curious for CCP's Dust514 announcement thingy.
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TL;DR: E3 gave all small gaming sites the finger, so I'm not that excited about it this year aside from seeing the ME3 trailer/demo.
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I've been to E3 three times: 2004, 2005, and 2008. I've seen it go from a fancy tradeshow to an overblown hyped-up orgy of pounding music and jiggling booth babes to a quiet set of business conferences with no hype and then back to a fancy tradeshow. When I went in 2008, it was just about right. I'm not at all happy with it anymore and it's become such a farce. :/
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Just to play devil's advocate here... isn't there something in that?
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