Saturday morning watchmen
Jun. 6th, 2016 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The fictional saturday morning cartoon version of Watchmen was really funny. But it also looked pretty fun. Like actually, maybe a lot of what people responded to in watchmen was the characters, the worldbuilding... things which were good but separate from the "real life superheros would suck" message, and could be incorporated into an annoyingly-up show just as easily as an annoyingly-down show.
Just like you have Batman appearing in heroic, campy, and grimdark versions.
And in some ways, it's making the same parody about how the low collateral damage of of superhero fights used to be unrealistically low, but showing them EVER LOWER, rather than VERY HIGH :)
But also, given how relentless grimdark has become since, "happy watchmen" might be almost as subversive now as the original was :)
The fictional saturday morning cartoon version of Watchmen was really funny. But it also looked pretty fun. Like actually, maybe a lot of what people responded to in watchmen was the characters, the worldbuilding... things which were good but separate from the "real life superheros would suck" message, and could be incorporated into an annoyingly-up show just as easily as an annoyingly-down show.
Just like you have Batman appearing in heroic, campy, and grimdark versions.
And in some ways, it's making the same parody about how the low collateral damage of of superhero fights used to be unrealistically low, but showing them EVER LOWER, rather than VERY HIGH :)
But also, given how relentless grimdark has become since, "happy watchmen" might be almost as subversive now as the original was :)
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Date: 2016-06-06 04:48 pm (UTC)Which, let's face it, kinda is Batman's costume…