love is a place

roxanneritchi:

reasons i am not looking forward to the avengers:

• joss whedon.
• it’s gonna fuck thor’s canon all up. now loki’s a petty supervillain who mysteriously gives a shit about that backwater, earth! someone other than jane has reopened communication and travel between the worlds! if that someone is tony, i will vomit!
• god, the entire fucking internet is going to be boring ass white dude slash all the time, and maybe a few people will ~oh so charitably~ mention one of the ladies now and then, but mostly it’s going to be white dudes fucking each other.
• joss whedon.
• every line of dialogue i have heard or read from this movie is horrible.
• JOSS WHEDON.
• I
• HATE
• JOSS
• WHEDON
• !!!!!!!!!!!!

reasons i am not looking forward to the dark knight rises:

• boring retread of the same shit done in a thousand other movies and a thousand other books and a thousand other comix aka OUR HERO MUST DO MORALLY AMBIGUOUS THINGS EVEN THO HE DOESN’T WANT TO BUT DON’T WORRY THE NARRATIVE WON’T EVER REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS POTENTIALLY WRONG OR GROSS BECAUSE HE WILL BE ABSOLVED AT ALL TURNS
• women are expendable whenever they’re present
• “what’s that? we have the opportunity to illustrate the importance of one of commissioner gordon’s children to him while also making a clever reference to a popular, existing character from the comix in his daughter, barbara gordon, aka the first batgirl and then oracle? LOL NOPE WE’RE GONNA USE HIS SON WHO HAS BEEN REFERENCED ALL OF TWICE IN THE COMIX LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL”
• shitty writing for a shitty universe about how everything is the responsibility of dudes who do terrible things but it’s okay because it’s for your own good
• all the intellectual depth of your average twelve year old’s fancomic about batman beating superman in a fight

brace for follower loss and angry anons in 3

2…

(bolding mine)

Oh yeah, I totally agree. I took an English course on detective fiction, and we studied Batman: The Dark Knight returns (in which everything is the responsibility of old white dudes who do terrible things, etc!!). For me, one of the things about Batman/Bruce Wayne is that he is nuts. His need for justice/vengeance should have been satisfied a long fucking time ago, but it’s like a compulsion for him. And while can be an interesting story… it should by no means be glorified! It kind of ruins his life, in many ways. The American detective is really hard to differentiate from the villains, and that’s part of why Batman fits so neatly into that detective archetype. The responsibility to restore order to society is on his shoulders alone. But for me, the best detective fiction explores why it shouldn’t be that way. The best fiction explores how someone (for example, Dick or Babs or Commissioner Gordon or Alfred) can make Bruce return to himself and realize he doesn’t have to be a martyr or take responsibility for the whole world onto his shoulders and then ~suffer ~manfully about it.

And frankly, for a Batman ‘verse that is supposedly dedicated to ~realism, I frankly don’t buy Christian Bale’s portrayal of ~manful ~suffering. Bo-o-oring. Give me Batfamily, I tell you. Real people, or at least larger-than-life people with real feelings. I would care about that a lot more than creepy Bats bein’ creepy all the time.

(Source: formerlyroxy)