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Meta-news: Due South Meta
Jun. 8th, 2018 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mekareAt least I hope it is news to some of you. There is a Tumblr with some interesting Due South meta, which is also incorporating thoughts from truepenny's episode essays from time to time.
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I especially liked this one, which takes Due South as an alternative to writing a superhero story (from December 2017). It's a topic which I have thought about a lot, especially since Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ran in a similar time frame (1993-1997) and also told the story of a genuinely good man.
Excerpt:So, this is mostly about Superman. See, lately there’s this weird assumption that you need to rework his character to make him interesting in the movies. You can’t have a guy with godlike powers helping people just cuz, you need to imbue the character with depth, which usually means a trauma, an internal conflict, a space to grow and change and have an arc. Also you have to make him Batman. All of this may or may not be directly blamed on Zack Snyder, Ayn Rand and misconstrued Joseph Campbell, but let’s leave these guys alone, they’ve had enough already.
What we won’t leave alone is that one Canadian buddy cop show from 20 years back which I love to bits and which presents us with a perfectly functional alternative approach to writing a superhero story.
truepenny's episode essays from time to time. I especially liked this one, which takes Due South as an alternative to writing a superhero story (from December 2017). It's a topic which I have thought about a lot, especially since Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ran in a similar time frame (1993-1997) and also told the story of a genuinely good man.
Excerpt:So, this is mostly about Superman. See, lately there’s this weird assumption that you need to rework his character to make him interesting in the movies. You can’t have a guy with godlike powers helping people just cuz, you need to imbue the character with depth, which usually means a trauma, an internal conflict, a space to grow and change and have an arc. Also you have to make him Batman. All of this may or may not be directly blamed on Zack Snyder, Ayn Rand and misconstrued Joseph Campbell, but let’s leave these guys alone, they’ve had enough already.
What we won’t leave alone is that one Canadian buddy cop show from 20 years back which I love to bits and which presents us with a perfectly functional alternative approach to writing a superhero story.
