Bats v Supes

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I don't troll or bait.

You don't bait me?



I consider your baiting me central to our dynamic. I didn't realize how one-sided it was.

I think I finally understand what it must have been like to date me in the early aughts. 'S bleak, man.

[Dalty]

Nope. I just know if I ask a question I will get an interesting, thought provoking and entertaining answer which I will enjoy reading. Same for Mal and everyone else here. If I was baiting then that question would start with "Your mother...."

Or does it not work like AICN?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Unfortunately, any answer you get from me is likely to get edited twenty times after you've already read it and moved on. Typing while Jubboiter is still awake leads to sloppy and unfocused writing. I've already edited my post something like six times.

I think I may finally be done. It's not because I'm happy with the writing. It's because I'm worn out, Jubboiter's finally down for her nap, and I want to finish the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode I started five hours ago.

[Dalty]

If she's having a nap, you should have a nap too. Daddy Daughter rule.

[Dalty]

Notwithstanding the whole 'not napping' thing.

[Dalty]

I had to add that because as I posted it I realised I told an insomniac to go take a nap and was worried it might be up there with telling a person with depression to cheer the fuck up or a person with anxiety to calm down, and I felt bad.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I don't usually take offense to stuff.

[Dalty]

I still felt bad. And get some sleep, you non-sleeping eeejit!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Maybe tonight.

[Dalty]

I do epic lullaby.

Also, chloroform.

[Mal Shot First]

Maybe tonight.

Now who's baiting?

[Mal Shot First]

(It worked.)

[Dalty]

Is that a roofy?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It goes between the roofy and the tonguey.

[neglet]

You people are weird.

And I also thought the "Watchmen" adaptation was meh. Watchable, but too Snydery.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

That's a pretty good way to put it, negs. If the property being adapted meant less to me, it's likely the movie would barely register. It's hard to say. Watchmen has been a part of me since the eighties. If I were going into the movie clean, I'd probably watch it, be annoyed by the Snyderisms, and come away from it thinking there were some interesting things in it here and there.

[Mal Shot First]

You know, an analogy occurred to me yesterday after discussing the merits of Snyder's Watchmen adaptation (or his comic book adaptations in general). Snyder's method of adapting is like Seth Brundle's transporter machine from The Fly - with precisely the same problem. Snyder disassembles the source text into its constituent pieces and then reassembles it in a different medium. Much like Brundle's bland/synthetic steak, however, Snyder's result of the transportation/adaptation process, while succeeding in recreating the appearance of the original, simply lacks the essence that made the original what it was. Snyder gives us his stripped down interpretation of the steak rather than the steak as steak (the "steak-in-itself," if you will).

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

(Or, as Kant would put it, "Steak an sich." Or, as Heidegger would put it, "Steaksein.")

[Jubbers]

As Dupree would say, the steak's "steakness."

[Dalty]

If he's fucking with steak, he's gone too far!

[Master Skywalker]

You know, an analogy occurred to me yesterday after discussing the merits of Snyder's Watchmen adaptation (or his comic book adaptations in general). Snyder's method of adapting is like Seth Brundle's transporter machine from The Fly - with precisely the same problem. Snyder disassembles the source text into its constituent pieces and then reassembles it in a different medium. Much like Brundle's bland/synthetic steak, however, Snyder's result of the transportation/adaptation process, while succeeding in recreating the appearance of the original, simply lacks the essence that made the original what it was. Snyder gives us his stripped down interpretation of the steak rather than the steak as steak (the "steak-in-itself," if you will).

I've never seen anyone compare Snyder's film methodology to The Fly before, but it works for me.

I like the cut of your jib, MSF.

[Dalty]

"Teleported Steak" is now a thing!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Tastes like chicken.

[Dalty]

Inside out chicken?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Brundlefly chicken.