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ataraxystar asked:

well did they elect to kill Robin or not?

vintagegeekculture answered:

Yes. My understanding is that it actually was incredibly close, only a few dozen votes. 

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There is something extremely crass and a bit mean spirited about electing to kill an unpopular character by holding a popularity contest. What’s interesting is that Jason Todd’s controversial “lil’ stinker” personality was something that came in out of nowhere and was not how the character was initially introduced.

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There are several really great stories, like the Teen Titans Zendia story arc, where Jason Todd was presented as not very physically impressive or powerful, but quick thinking and resourceful, who takes full advantage of the fact his enemies underestimated and ignored him (this was how he was presented in Moore’s Man Who Has Everything as well - people forget that Jason Todd saved the day in that one). 

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If a character isn’t working, or is widely disliked or controversial, the solution is not to give up, make them a part of a crass stunt. The solution differs from character to character, but it’s important to start with empathy. For instance, one way is to “get the audience on their side” by having them go through setbacks, so empathy gets the audience rooting for them (have their girlfriend or boyfriend leave them, have them lose their job, etc.)

I do dimly recall hearing that Jason Todd came back into the comics in some way. My knowledge of comics has a “cutoff point” so I can’t tell you any more, except that that’s one hell of a trick, considering there was a body. Other people can probably tell you more about that.

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Just one more thought I forgot to add:

I remember having dinner with a friend (who is a somewhat, moderately well known writer) about the character of Jar Jar Binks, and what could be done to “save him” as opposed to killing him off or forgetting about him. You have to remember that this was while the prequels were still going on, and we had no idea how it would all turn out.

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My friend put forward the idea that Jar Jar was secretly evil, a swerve that she stole from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series where it turns out that the goofy, deformed, cowardly court jester who accompanied the heroes all this time actually had been the evil galactic warlord known as the Mule, befriending the heroes in order to spy on them. This has become something of a popular theory online since then, incidentally - maybe because there are a lot of Asimov fans out there. The way she described it, at some point, Jar Jar would drop the pretense of being a fool and demonstrate formidable martial arts skills we never knew he had, kind of like “drunken boxing” where it looks deceptively like lurching clumsily around, and use those unpredictable movements to pound the stuffing out of the Jedi Knights like Jackie Chan in Drunken Master.

I had another idea, one I also stole.

My idea was, at some point in the third act of a Star Wars film, the fate of the galaxy was dependent on a suicide mission where the outcome was all but certain death – flying into a sun or something like that to stop a bomb, and whoever did it would pilot a ship knowing they would absolutely go to near-certain death. Anakin Skywalker, being noble, elects to go, but Jar Jar would stop him, saying, in a moment of rare dignity:

“No. I’ll pilot the shuttle, not you. You see, Padme loves you, and you love her. Obi-Wan is your friend. But me…nobody loves me at all. I don’t have any friends at all. People care if you live or die, but me…no one cares at all if I…” And he lets that thought hang.

If you play the moment right, everyone would see for a minute how lonely and kind of pathetic Jar Jar was, like Pagliacci. If you do it right, everyone in the theater would be crying…over Jar Jar Binks.

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The next time we see Jar Jar, we’d see his frail, dead, lifeless burned out body, hugged by the characters. One of the female characters would weep into his chest and clothes. But at the last minute, a toe would move and he’d smile weakly. The audience would cheer – Jar Jar is alive! Cue the credits and the music. 

From that point on, I think the audience would care about Jar Jar. Not sure if he could be used to sell candy and frisbees, but they’d care about him. If you have empathy, you can get people to like even Jar Jar. 

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In addition to wanting to end swedish teathre tendency to crawl on the floor to express emotions, I also wanna bring the awkward and waaaay to drawn out sex scene in Swedish movies, were okish to ugly actors are nude in a manner you just don’t wanna see

People think swedish sin: actors being fresh, nude and beautiful in movies

Reality: in a social realistic movie, two actors (who irl are a now divorced married couple) have a anxiety filled straight sex scene were no one appears to gain any enjoyment from the sex. Afterwards they look displeased and move on with the plot.

The sex scene is badly lit, the actors mostly look like your average middle age people (just kinda meh), it’s all just very ugly

And we must through this WAY TO MUCH

End this!!

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Also!

Just as liv strömqvist pointed out, back when she made satire comics I actually enjoyed, pointed out:

the very specific kink: “older women with odd dialect is spied on by teenage boys (the main characters), while she baths nude.”

Is a very specific kink that gotten waaaay to much room in Swedish movie history

(exemples:

Populärmusik från vittula

Ondskan

Many more movies I don’t remember)

Swedish movie directors: we, the general movie audience, are not as interested in this specific kink of yours, that you think we are.

Please expand on other kinks than this VERY specific one, in your movies, pleeeease

kaelio

there’s lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it’s very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

- “Tree Goat” (SA)