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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-28 11:21:00

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char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: darwyn cooke, title: new frontier

New Frontier: Diana and Clark have an arguement

I have to say that I really do like Wonder Woman's portrayal in this mini series, from her belief in America as an ideal (an ideal that becomes kind of embarassing to the US government when she points out their foreign policy contradicts it, and ultimately results in her being unofficially thrown out of the country), to her being taller than Superman and her costume.

I do like the costume, it both seems to be practical and somewhat "Ancient Greekish" if you get what I mean. Though I do wonder where she got the blue leather for her skirt...

Uh oh,

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runespoor7
2009-07-28 09:27 pm UTC (link)

Saying "there are no rules here" as a justification for anything you did is incredibly nasty and cowardly. The implications are: "sure, I do wrong things - everytone does!" Is that supposed to be an excuse for not making and enforcing rules? Isn't that what that war was supposed to be about? And calling that the American way -- aklsdjsdkn, please, no more straw. (anti-straw?)

Writer, that pseudo logic is despicable in the real world, and here it just looks like using a character as a mouthpiece.

For the record, I'm jut condemning the speech, not Diana's actions.

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	aaron_bourque 2009-07-28 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	As point of order, neither character is meant to be correct here. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; it's writing 110: at the beginning of the story, everyone is wrong. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	runespoor7 2009-07-28 11:04 pm UTC (link)
	I hope so, but it still strikes me as really really really heavy characterization of the "character = mouthpiece" school of ~~failure~~ symbolism. (Which I get is part of the point.) And the way each is written to be wrong is fundamentally unfair. Compare Diana's 'eloquent speechifying' to Clark's incompetence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-07-29 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Well, yes. In this story, Clark isn't a speechifyer yet. He gets that later. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	colonel_green 2009-07-30 01:54 am UTC (link)
	You'd never know that by the fans' reaction to it; they all cheer Diana on as she espouses murdering POWs. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-07-30 05:58 am UTC (link)
	Well there's your problem: those men were never prisoners of war. They were torturers, rapists, slavers and likely murders who were deserving of none of the protections enjoyed by honest soldiers. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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