Enter Marvelous flying brick -

Captain Marvel is not a very good or interesting character, in fact I firmly believe she could be replaced by a brick and not much of any consequence would change. Mind you, this is a thing that also hold true for a lot characters when an unskilled or uninterested author write the story. It boils down to the character being an emotional black void, yet being the center of attention, love and admiration. Regardless of how much they deserve it or not. As someone I can not recall put it, if you’re not trying to break the audiences hearth, you are doing it wrong. Which is what Captain Marvel unfortunately failed to do, by being turned into a self insert fan fiction character, fueled by selfish wish fulfillment fantasy. Combine that with a boring power set and the lack of a creative use of her abilities, or any attempt at outwitting the enemy. The way she is portrait is one that is very popular among teenagers and first time authors, usually the kind loathed on fanfiction.net.

She is strong, she can fly, shoot deadly bolts of light, breathe in space and is very, very durable. To top it of she is revered and fared by the Kree since they put a lot of resources into brainwashing her and keeping her power limited. When the mind wipe eventually ends, she just moves on with her life and nothing of interest occurs afterwards. If you look away from the fact that the she stopped hunting Skrull and now they love her. Other than that she is also a very successful female test pilot in a time where such thing is a rarity and naturally the men around her is cracking gender jokes. Eventually she joins up with Nick Fury and eventually helps to establish S.H.I.E.L.D and finds the teseract collection dust. Oh and the alien cat that tags along nicks one of Furys eyes and gives him a device he can use to call her if earth is in peril. An object that would have worked wonder when Ironman nearly died above New York, which makes me wonder, where was she when the hole debacle with Thanos began? I have no idea, nor does the writer and that gives me no reason to care to write anymore about a very mediocre Hollywood experience, written by someone that got paid handsomely, that cant handle criticism and people pointing out plot holes. A long time favorite pastime of us geeks. I mean seriously, watching a movie with friends and cracking jokes and debating the story is half the experience.

What I’m not entirely sure of is how a successful blonde woman with no weakness and few emotions, are going to be a good role model for impressionable kids and marginalized minorities. Especially when the one iteration of her was apparently Muslim, and the one before that was black. Which means I should probably bring up whitewashing but that is another can of maggots and I’ve been rambling for long enough as it is.

As a reference point, this is worm a web serial and how to make a story about heroes interesting, emotional, brilliant and the main character is a girl, oh and her power is to control insects and crustaceans.

https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

Another fairly interesting female hero is Lina Inverse from the Slayers universe, especially the light novels. She is severely and more often than not pay they price for her actions.

Then there is always Skulldyggery Gentle to go by as well. Can’t go wrong with a sorceress having a living skeleton as a mentor.

Zaceron Out!

"She-Ra Review"

Some people I followed on Youtube talked a lot about the new She-Ra show and the public reception, so naturally I got this morbid curiosity to seek out the show to see it for myself. I'm a sucker for animated show and greatly enjoy studying the various techniques used and the imaginative yet silly stories. This is just some of my subjective opinions on She-Ra overall.

She-Ra is a decades old animated show that followed the adventures of said hero, as she fights the evil horde with a colorful team of misfits and comic relief characters, where almost all episodes returned to status quo at the end and nothing changed. And the titular character turned into a tall woman in a short skirt and high heels. Whom is very confident, quite clever and very strong, but at times a bit too perfect. The dialogue was very bad and the scene transitions awkward and jarring, but there was a lot of good ideas and interesting designs to go around. Shows from this period had a very morbid fascination with including cowardly and wacky sidekicks. Enjoyable but dang those sound effects and voices can be really terrible.

The new Netflix She-Ra show re imagines the old show with a bit more body type variation and a much more streamlined plot that follows a red thread. Where a magical sword turns the hero into a powerhouse. This time around She-Ra wears a much more modest costume, which still offers no proper protection, but sports a set of silly shoulder pads. A common common issue with almost all heroic characters, they never wear any sort of armor. One thing that really stood out to me is that the scenery looks fabulous most of the time. It’s very entertaining for the most part, but also painfully annoying at other parts.

Seems like most grownups have died due to a battle that went badly, thus the princesses are in power, even though they technically are queens at this point. The horde trains useless child soldiers and have no proper plans for anything and is very incompetent. The heroes are very good at doing the right thing in a very bad way and puts themselves in stupid situations. If not for the child friendly nature pf the plot, most of the cast would have been dead or dying at this point. Their interaction is lovely and all and brings a lot of life to the show and is less awkward than then the predecessor, it's also painfully cliche, in a way that hurts. Two childhood friends are trained to be soldiers in the hordes army, until Adora finds a magical sword in the forest, which turn her into She-Ra and learn how terrible and evil the horde actually is. Which causes a rift between her at Catra, due to some manipulation and poor communication skills. A major overarching theme is that the heroes suck at talking to other people. Which is a very common issue in much of animated media.

There has been a lot of noise on twitter about the show, various sites carping on fans and a lot of silly arguments to go around. To me it’s always amusing when someone calls the old show bad, but never saw an episode. Or how someone is impressed with the diversity of the new show, even if the old show had some elements of that as well. Even if most characters had that perfect super hero hourglass copy paste figure. I can at least admit that both shows while entertaining in its own right I’m not the target audience and that nostalgia is not a good quality indicator. The other thing I take away from the series is that the outrage mob is dangerously biased, absolutely hilarious and better written than these shows.