Hello , folks ! Your postman is account for duty . This hebdomad we have interrogation about why DC should put all of its shows , flick , and comics into a exclusive multiverse , why Deadpool rules when other gas constant - rated “ superhero ” movies drool , why Finn had no trouble murdering the heck out of his fellow Stormtroopers , and more .
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Luke P. :
You said you want to give life advice , so here you go .
I ’m a accumulator — action chassis and statues primarily — and I was in a relationship that recently ended . Do n’t ask . But the nice part is that she was used to my hobby and I could display my material everywhere . Now I have a raw place and I want to put my dust back up but I also need to date someone again .
Can I do both ? I do n’t want to hide myself , and I know there are at least a few women out there who would enter a “ dweeb cave ” and have no problems with it . But I ca n’t aid but cogitate bringing even a pretty geeky girl to my apartment and her seeing a lot of Ame - Comi young lady on a bookshelf is break to get me a second engagement , you make out ?
Should I keep my stuff stored until I ’m in a raw kinship ? Should I put them all out and hope to come up someone who does n’t care ? I ’m honestly stuck here , so you ’re as good a answer as any .
I ’m first-rate - excited to get this question , because I have been there . I suddenly found myself unmarried at a time when I had literally push - trap unopened Star Wars forecast to my walls in lieu of art ( which is n’t just obscenely nerdy , but tacky as hell ) . I quickly hail to the conclusion that while I enjoyed my hobby , I would enjoy not dying alone even more . So I direct them down ( mint of less ostentatious displays of geekery remained ) .
Was I being corruptible ? No more than any messy someone who does a topnotch - unclouded before a date comes over . unexampled relationships are tricky , tenuous things , so you do n’t want dump all your hang - ups and quirks on someone on your first date , whether it ’s your partiality for statues of distaff superheroes , or the fact that you run a Happy Days - specific erotic fan fic site .
If collecting is a major part of who you are , you should n’t hide it . If it ’s important to you , then you owe it to yourself and your prospective kinship to be honest . There ’s a line between putting your best self forward and misrepresenting yourself , but only you get it on how few plaything and collectable you may expose without feeling like you ’re pretending to be someone else .
If you ’re care about the sexy nature of your toy redact off prospective date , the same response applies : If you like figures of sexy superheroes , do n’t hide it . But that also does n’t think displaying every individual one and introducing them each to your date by name . To be honest , lots of people ( of both genders ) think this sort of cheesecake is all right — while lot do n’t . If it ’s something you really enjoy , would n’t you rather be in a relationship with someone in the former group ?
And address of being honest : Do n’t ever lie in about it . If your date asks you point blank “ Hey , do you run a Happy Days - specific erotic sports fan fic website ? ” , you tell him / her the trueness . Not just because lying is a rotten thing to do to them , but because it does you no good either . If you never reveal to him / her that you ’re a miniature sports fan , what ’s your plan if the relationship actually works out ? conceal your toy evermore ?
Across the Multiverse
Glitchy :
greeting Postmaster ! I was marvel your thoughts on the DC Cinematic / Television cosmos . At the moment , they mostly seem to be existing severally of each other : The moving picture are their own thing , patently . But on boob tube , Flash / Arrow / LoT and peradventure Supergirl ( depending on how the foretell crosswalk deal it ) exist together , while other show like iZombie and Gotham subsist in their own independent land .
Is DC planning on turning all this into one cock-a-hoop multiverse with everything ? If they are n’t , why not ? The Flash did a great job present the concept of the multiverse so anyone could realize it . Is n’t it manageable ?
Warner Bros./DC could do it . They should do it ! And they dead wo n’t do it .
To be fair , there are a lot of intellect for WB / DC not to . First and frontmost is that the mind of a single multiverse is tough for a mess of people to wind their heads around . And DC does not have a individual multiverse .
Arrow and The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow are separate show in the same universe . Supergirl is part of their multiverse . Constantine the Great is likely in the regular universe , though . But other shows like Gotham have their own universes that are not part of the Arrow / Supergirl multiverse , even though they are both technically DC universes . Then there ’s the DC comics multiverse , which is a all separate multiverse . Most of the cartoons have their own disjoined population , but they are not part of a cock-a-hoop multiverse , although they might have their own footling multiverses inside .
DC has multiple multiverses across all its medium . This shit is hard for me to keep cartroad of , and I more of less get paid to do so . Imagine trying to explain this to your non - nerdy first cousin who just wants to see Batman perforate Superman . Which brings us to the other independent cause DC / WB wo n’t do it — it wo n’t make them money . Connecting the display / cartoon / movies / whatever together is a blast for devotee , but those fans will be watching the shows or buying pic slate whether Grant Gustin Flash meets Ezra Miller Flash or Christian Bale stops by Gotham and asks what the hell is run short on .
There ’s no welfare , and there ’s a decent chance that you might become off the larger , non - nerd audiences that any show / movie / whatever postulate to succeed . Also , it train workplace across departments and studios and web and god knows what else to make these things happen . Both The Flash and Supergirl are produced by the same multitude , but there were some big meetings and some sizable declaration signed just to make this cameo possible ( and please take down that they ’ve been very clear that Supergirl is not part of the actual Arrow - poesy , but is another totally separate universe like Earth-2 ) . And recollect , Warner Bros. is a hierarchy with the moving picture at the top . The movie White House are n’t pass to do anything that could possibly intervene with their main money - making superhero franchises . This is how we get a Batman show without Batman in it and a Supergirl show where Superman is a shadow creature .
But as I sound out up top , there is in reality one uncanny trick that DC / WB could use to create one massive multiverse of every DC comedian , animated cartoon , TV show , movie , everything . quick ?
Just say it is .
Seriously . Just get DC president Diane Nelson , and comedian co - publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee , and a few of the showrunners , and the King of Warner Bros. or whoever in charge of the motion-picture show together , so it feels like it ’s really one monolithic group decisiveness , and literally just say out loudly : “ Uh , yes . Everything DC has ever made is in one giant multiverse . It ’s all canyon . They ’re all connected , although some part of this multiverse are more connected that others . So yes , Arrow from the television receiver show could technically arrive in the independent DC cartoon strip population . Henry Cavill ’s Man of Steel could technically seem in the new Justice League Action . He wo n’t , because he ’s a living person and that ’s a toon , but in a nerdy , technical way it is potential . Yes , Batman from The Animated Series shares a multiverse with the Wonder Woman telecasting serial publication . The two wo n’t crossover , because of the toon thing , because that ’s not how elongate fourth dimension put to work , and because it ’s dumb . But technically they could . No question ! ”
And that would be that . Fans would be thrilled . Warner Bros. would n’t have to do or O.K. anything additional because of it . Just say it is , simplify the lunacy , and then move on exactly as you have been . Admittedly , there ’d have to be some kind of reshuffling DC ’s comics multiverse which is stuck at 52 . But they boot that shit all the fourth dimension . What ’s one more ? Do n’t they have some kind of Rebirth coming up soon anyway ?
Deep End of the ‘Pool
NotAMonster :
Dear Postman ,
Your retro colleague Charlie Jane Anders in her editorial about the splendid Super , compared Deadpool with Wanted , Kick - Ass and Kingsman . I fit that those movies have smartass “ hoagie ” and conventionalize hyper violence ; and yet I hat all three of those snarky , “ subversive ” picture show , while I lie with Deadpool and Super .
Can you articulate what Deadpool and Super have , under the airfoil , that I responded to so favourably , while I hated those other film so much ? The brusque answer is “ Heart ” , but I ’m hoping you’re able to break it down a little deeper for me .
I have n’t escort Super , so I ca n’t answer for that . I can definitely tell you why I feel Deadpool is superior to Wanted , Kick - Ass , and Kingsman , which all happen to be ground on comic strip / level by Mark Millar . On the Earth’s surface , all four movies are pretty like — a snarky , disrespectful - of - authority “ hero ” with cool powers who fights in spades bad villains with copious amount of profanity and violence .
The first difference is that Ryan Reynolds ’ Deadpool is actually likable , and the hotshot of the other three films are jerks . Yes , Deadpool is an insane maniac , but he still has people he deal for , he can be funny ( if often vulgar ) , and at the final stage of the daytime he ’s basically a good guy , albeit one with a very open attitude to violence . I would theoretically like to hang out with Deadpool . I revel hang out with him when I watched the celluloid . Meanwhile , I have zero desire to string up out with any of the stars of Wanted , Kingsman , or Kick - Ass . They are all either insipid or objectionably pleased with themselves , practically gloating when they get their superhero lives / mightiness .
It also helps that Deadpool is part of the go - Men universe of discourse . It adds a genuineness to him and his pic that the other three stand - alone films do n’t have . As part of a turgid whole , Deadpool effectively gets to be the uncollectible boy of the X - men - verse , and that makes him more interesting and more fun , because we know what “ normal ” X - Men part and story are .
Mainly , I guess it ’s Millar ; he ’s great at the care - fulfilment aspect of being a superhero ( “ Boy , I wish I was a super - spy / torpedo / gunman - magician ! ” ) but his characters are … miss . ( “ Boy , that super - spy / hero / gun - wizard is kind of an motherfucker . ” ) frankly , “ nerve ” is plausibly still the best answer .
Of Jims and Beams
Dan S. :
In Star Trek teleporters are everywhere and a vulgar mode of proceed between ships . Now unless they have somehow change how they theoretically figure out , basically each metre our crew uses it , they are killed and a clon is made at the end item out of topically sourced material . So where do they get the material to build the people on the other remainder ? Are there jumbo vats of the great unwashed goo that sit inside each ship just wait to become the next Picard ? When they teleport down to a satellite , does the ship just carve a chunk out of the filth to make the away team ?
A ship ’s conveyer coverts a person ’s topic into an vitality pattern and beams the energy to wherever it require to go . Now , some multitude reckon the energy pattern to be bare entropy — like a calculator programme broken down to binary 0s and 1s . But I do n’t see why the conveyer belt does n’t actually transmit the vitality itself .
If it does , then just like thing can become energy in the first place , the energy can reform as matter ( in the future tense of Star Trek , he clarified , as every scientist read this had a nous aneurysm at the same sentence ) . The weird part is that the transporter can reconvert the energy back to matter at its intended destination — there does n’t necessarily require to be a specific receiver to wiretap the vigor and reformat it , as we ’ve picture every time someone beams to a planet ’s control surface instead of another ship .
This means no extra topic is need . I reckon you could contend that if your new torso is technically made of the same stuff you pass on with , you are n’t really a Modern clone , and did n’t really die . But at the same time you and your awareness ceased to live as a living being , which is bushed by pretty much any definition .
It ’s an interesting philosophic debate it appears that Starfleet got over very , very quickly .
Finn-ishing Touch
That_stupid_action_master_transformer :
In The Force Awakens , Finn is very upset after see one of his stormtrooper buddies kill but then 5 minutes later he massacres stormtroopers in the steal TIE scrapper with Poe . Did he have a genial break ? Some sort of Stockholm syndrome ? Wo n’t he change over back just as easily ?
I have no doubt that Finn was traumatized by see a fellow Stormtrooper dice , but I cogitate he was at least as appalled by what the cavalryman were doing , namely executing civilian . Watching his co - worker ’s dying was n’t necessarily what made Finn recognize the holiness of all life . It was more “ I do n’t need to decease like this guy , and I peculiarly do n’t desire to die while murdering devoid people . ”
Finn would be in a position to be intimate if other Stormtroopers had similar dubiousness about their mission , but I ’m run short to take a savage supposition and say they did n’t , and that all of Finn ’s fellow soldier were incredible assholes . They were all steal from their families and trained for years to be unquestioning killers for the First Order . Just because Finn was somehow resistant to the programing does n’t intend anyone else was .
This , by the way , bums me out vastly — the idea of Finn being the only kid in the First Order Stormtrooper Academy that retrieve everything he ’s being taught is evil and mad , and him having no way out , no one to even talk to about it . He ’d have spent his plastic years emotionally isolated , and yet he somehow still was capable to didder off literally year of indoctrination at the first existent sight of the atrocities his fellow soldiers were dedicate .
Oh, Gotham
Ncasolo :
I enjoyed season 1 of Gotham . Crazy I know , but season 2 lost me . I still watch it because I had to keep watch once I bulge out watching a story , but by the end of it I just desire it to be over . And then Jim Gordon pulled the trigger . Is this a world where Jim Gordon becomes a vigilante with no moral spine ? Does Bruce grow up to be police chief Wayne ? Was n’t this reckon to secernate the story of Batman before Batman ? Is the show worth watching because we do n’t recognize what will happen or has it turn a loss the plot completely fate to be an hour of awful television ?
Gotham was ostensibly going to be “ the story of Batman before Batman , ” but it has quickly become a mind - boggling Elseworlds tale that I ’m convinced is a hyper - fierce mirror humankind version of Batman ’ 66 . It ’s atrocious . I have intercourse it . I find it deserving watching because 1 ) I do n’t ever know what will happen , but also 2 ) whatever does happen , it will be the least Batman - y thing possible .
And I ’m genuinely excited for it to bring back next Monday , February 29 . As for the future of Gotham , I want Bruce Wayne ’s first task as Batman to be pick up the vigilante serial sea wolf team of Jim Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth . I want Penguin and the Riddler to both take act as Batman ’s inexplicably old Robin , and I want Barbara to be the Joker . As absurd as this sound , I know for a fact you ca n’t out - crazy Gotham .
If you have a doubt , need advice , have a “ what if ” ? scenario , or need answers to anything remotely nerdy , e-mail your friendly post - apocalyptic fake mailman here . And see you next workweek !
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