just like the favorite movies thread
explain what television shows you watch with explinations of why you like those shows
as the thread starter i think i should start
i watch the superman-as-a-teenager show Smallville
on other forums the people that say they watch the show are horny people that think the actors/actressess on the show look sexy
but the reason i watch the show is because the psychological element is done-up in a way that's more realistic than any other superhero show that's ever been done before (except the 90s x-men cartoon, the whole concept of the x-men was a kind of parody of the civil rights movement, the "mutants" represented blacks, professor X reperesented martin luthor king and the eternally re-occuring villian magneto represented malcolm x)
before superheros, comic books were comic-AL
the characters the Shadow, the Phantom, the Spirit, the Rocketeer, the Sub-mariner don't exist any more because those characters were specifically created for ADULTS
then the comics code authority got created for the specific purpose of taking out any sexual element and marketing violence toward children (this was a direct response to the creation of Playboy magazine in 1953)
after creation of the comics code authority, we see the creation of Superman (every superhero character that's still got current comics/tv shows)
the psychological element in smallville is more realistic almost entirely because american tv isn't cencored by religious-fanatics anymore
there is a sexual element present that kind of borders on "soap-opera-ish"
but seperate from the love lives/sex lives of the charachters (including kryptonian clark kent having sex with human females) every episode of the entire 1st season had guest characters with super powers where those episodes showed these "villian" characters as people, we saw them as people, we saw them accuire super-powers, we saw how power corupts and absolute power corupts absolutely, and we were able to see how real people would really act if given super-powers which allowed us to sympothize with the "villian" characters so much more so than anything the superhero genre has ever done before
explain what television shows you watch with explinations of why you like those shows
as the thread starter i think i should start
i watch the superman-as-a-teenager show Smallville
on other forums the people that say they watch the show are horny people that think the actors/actressess on the show look sexy
but the reason i watch the show is because the psychological element is done-up in a way that's more realistic than any other superhero show that's ever been done before (except the 90s x-men cartoon, the whole concept of the x-men was a kind of parody of the civil rights movement, the "mutants" represented blacks, professor X reperesented martin luthor king and the eternally re-occuring villian magneto represented malcolm x)
before superheros, comic books were comic-AL
the characters the Shadow, the Phantom, the Spirit, the Rocketeer, the Sub-mariner don't exist any more because those characters were specifically created for ADULTS
then the comics code authority got created for the specific purpose of taking out any sexual element and marketing violence toward children (this was a direct response to the creation of Playboy magazine in 1953)
after creation of the comics code authority, we see the creation of Superman (every superhero character that's still got current comics/tv shows)
the psychological element in smallville is more realistic almost entirely because american tv isn't cencored by religious-fanatics anymore
there is a sexual element present that kind of borders on "soap-opera-ish"
but seperate from the love lives/sex lives of the charachters (including kryptonian clark kent having sex with human females) every episode of the entire 1st season had guest characters with super powers where those episodes showed these "villian" characters as people, we saw them as people, we saw them accuire super-powers, we saw how power corupts and absolute power corupts absolutely, and we were able to see how real people would really act if given super-powers which allowed us to sympothize with the "villian" characters so much more so than anything the superhero genre has ever done before
