Bryce said...

[DangerousPuhson]

It's just kinda wrong, like, as a statement. You can absolutely shoehorn any theme/character into any genre. They won't all be as effective as you'd hope, but even Star Trek had perfectly cromulent episodes with Roman gladiators and pinstripe mafiosos. Fantasy can have romance in it. Noire can have sci-fi in it. Pulp adventure can have comedy in it. There exists many functional examples for any of these off-kilter-seeming combinations.

 

[Beoric]

It's the sort of critic who doesn't recognize that Thor: Ragnarok was a buddy movie, or that Logan was basically a Western, because they are "comic book movies."

 

[Beoric]

... but even Star Trek had perfectly cromulent episodes with Roman gladiators and pinstripe mafiosos. Fantasy can have romance in it...

"The City on the Edge of Forever" was a fucking brilliant romantic episode of TOS. "Balance of Terror" was a great naval warfare episode, I get the same vibes that I get from The Hunt for Red October and the Patrick O'Brian books.

 

[The Heretic]

I went and read it for context, and I still don't understand any of the arguments.

Is it an argument?

I'm not sure. The best I can tell is that maybe they are trying to make a point about shoehorning overt political or religious messages into an adventure?

The Heretic

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Bryce, you done gone and fucked up the blog. The Cult of the Sky Titans banner is enlarged to absurd proportions -