Genre gives the chance avoid the trap of political correctness, inevitable in case of realistic stories (as happensin the current batch of political movies - Rendition, Lions for Lambs etc. about torturing the prisoners and sending people to death). Genre stories can tell unpleasant truths more openly.
I’m not sure what you mean by this both in the sense of whether it’s ‘political correctness’ rather than straightforwardly divergent opinions on the efficacy of torture that drives the message of these movies or why genre is more suited to putting the conservative view. Does 24 count as genre (because that series is openly pro-torture)?
The set-up - how would you behave in Hell? - is a sore point for modern America. Because in current political situation liberalism doesn't work. Liberalism is unable to defend the world against terrorism. When it's kill or be killed, you kill. You can't be kind in the world where cruelty is strength. You can't allow the luxury to be noble in the world where the noblesse is regarded as weakness and will kill you and your friends….
…To win you have to be a caveman. To sink to their level. And Angel can. He can be ruthless, cunning, dangerous. He can unleash his inner Angelus.
Angel unleashed his vampire self in the fight with Hamilton and look where it got him and the rest of LA. When it's kill or be killed, you kill and everybody dies. If anything the current direction of the story looks like a condemnation of pro-active aggressive policies against evil (and terrorism) being as they are directly analogous to Angel’s plan to take out the Black Thorn.
It would be neat if the girl Angel saves on the first panel possesses some knowledge or artefact crucial for breaking the barrier. This way "It all started with a girl" would sound deliciously ambivalent in hindsight.
It was all too ambivalent for many people as it was given all the confusion about which girl. I can’t help thinking it would have been neater and more subversive to begin with “It all started with a boy.” It was Connor that got Angel into the whole W& H deal in the first place not any girl.
Angel + Dragon = Drangel Forever!
I could take the dragon better if its introduction had been less detailed. The only way I can see Angel and the dragon figuring out they were on the same side two minutes into a fight involves much signaling of eyes. Sometimes less is more.
no subject
I’m not sure what you mean by this both in the sense of whether it’s ‘political correctness’ rather than straightforwardly divergent opinions on the efficacy of torture that drives the message of these movies or why genre is more suited to putting the conservative view. Does 24 count as genre (because that series is openly pro-torture)?
The set-up - how would you behave in Hell? - is a sore point for modern America. Because in current political situation liberalism doesn't work. Liberalism is unable to defend the world against terrorism. When it's kill or be killed, you kill. You can't be kind in the world where cruelty is strength. You can't allow the luxury to be noble in the world where the noblesse is regarded as weakness and will kill you and your friends….
…To win you have to be a caveman. To sink to their level. And Angel can. He can be ruthless, cunning, dangerous. He can unleash his inner Angelus.
Angel unleashed his vampire self in the fight with Hamilton and look where it got him and the rest of LA. When it's kill or be killed, you kill and everybody dies. If anything the current direction of the story looks like a condemnation of pro-active aggressive policies against evil (and terrorism) being as they are directly analogous to Angel’s plan to take out the Black Thorn.
It would be neat if the girl Angel saves on the first panel possesses some knowledge or artefact crucial for breaking the barrier. This way "It all started with a girl" would sound deliciously ambivalent in hindsight.
It was all too ambivalent for many people as it was given all the confusion about which girl. I can’t help thinking it would have been neater and more subversive to begin with “It all started with a boy.” It was Connor that got Angel into the whole W& H deal in the first place not any girl.
Angel + Dragon = Drangel Forever!
I could take the dragon better if its introduction had been less detailed. The only way I can see Angel and the dragon figuring out they were on the same side two minutes into a fight involves much signaling of eyes. Sometimes less is more.