Comments on: So Long and Thanks For All the Spandex https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/24/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-spandex/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: kmunoz https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/24/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-spandex/comment-page-1/#comment-1878 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:46:51 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=261#comment-1878 The “boy scout” angle doesn’t really surprise me. Stan Lee’s public persona has always been as a promoter of the “boy scout” superhero image.

]]> By: lstokes https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/24/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-spandex/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:03:26 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=261#comment-1853 When I first heard the concept, I thought a big part of winning the show would have to involve having a charismatic character who was funny and bad-ass and creative, somebody who people would actually enjoy reading a comic book about.

The show turned out to be more of a “Who Wants To Be A Funny-Looking Boy Scout?” Distressingly didactic, and totally un-reality-show. That said, I’m still watching the finale.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/24/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-spandex/comment-page-1/#comment-1842 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:24:59 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=261#comment-1842 See, I don’t think the show has been very clear in its scripted narrative line–more arbitrarily working to get the selection to points of maximum entertainment value, as reality shows often do. So kicking out Major Victory seems to me bizarre in this sense unless they’re trying to make sure that a final has the two least charismatic characters and therefore something of a suspenseful choice.

]]> By: Jonathan Dresner https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/08/24/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-spandex/comment-page-1/#comment-1841 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:06:19 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=261#comment-1841 I have to ask: what standard would you have used for selection instead? The whole show seems predicated on denying the fundamentally cheesy, as you put it, nature of the genre within the context of the show, while playing on it for viewers (at least those who chose to view it ironically, rather than literally).

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