Comments on: Who Wants to Be a Superhero Update https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/18/who-wants-to-be-a-superhero-update/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/18/who-wants-to-be-a-superhero-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1813 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:17:33 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=255#comment-1813 That’s what tenure is for.

]]> By: Katie Davenport https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/18/who-wants-to-be-a-superhero-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1812 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:02:18 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=255#comment-1812 With all due respect, Professor B…Are you sure you’re allowed to say “mad props”?

]]> By: Joey Headset https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/18/who-wants-to-be-a-superhero-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1811 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:42:47 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=255#comment-1811 “Who Wants to Be Jesus Christ?”

Now THAT’S a show I would watch.

]]> By: rburns9519 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/18/who-wants-to-be-a-superhero-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1810 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:29:41 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=255#comment-1810 I watched about 5 episodes last night – it was my first time watching. I’m not sure that Stan Lee was necessarily married to the goody goody superhero concept but he needed a dialog with the contestants. Why couldn’t Major Victory have embraced his past – citing that he has incorporated the more profane nature of his past in order to do good? Instead of taking off his clothes for gross pleasure he now does it to protect old ladies (though he should get a cape with better traction). Fat Mamma could have argued that she used to go from diet to diet but had an epiphany about personal acceptance and thus gained her super powers through self knowledge. These superheroes are writing their own stories and Stan Lee was just prodding them for consistancy.

It was lame that Creature got pulled for jaywalking – but she should have played up her bad girl ways. Though, as many times as I heard Lee chuckling at MV it was unlikely that he would be the one to go (I particularly like his speech about never taking off his clothes again – unless he’s going to the bathroom).

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