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what they don’t tell you about online relationships is how easy it is to ruin them by simply having nothing to say. i like you so much but i don’t know how to hang out with you in silence. i don’t know how to text like a person so now you think i hate you. aaaaaaaaa
This is a major issue I've found with online relationships. Ironically, despite actually meeting people IRL being more difficult, hanging out IRL is so much easier, since you can just sit with someone and vibe whereas if you're on the phone then you're just sitting in silence with the magic slab.
Something great about Worm is its deconstruction of the superhero genre has nothing to do with the idea that superheroes would be bad or even worse people then they're portrayed as. It's based around the much more nuanced and truer take that being a good person, even with superpowers, doesn't free you from the larger systemic issues of the society that you're in. The capes are Earth Bet don't stand above their societies as neutral judges, they can't, every team is either deeply ingrained in their society or actively going against it.
Legend is a far better deconstruction of superman then Omniman or Homerlander, because Legend is as morally upstanding a person as Superman as a vacuum. He probably would be a good person if his universe was as simple as Superman's. What makes Legend a complex character, and someone whose definitely far from pure good, is that he still lives in a society, and chooses to be part of some of the morally worst institutions in that society. Choosing to be the nicest cop imaginable doesn't change the fact that he's a cop. The fact that he's legitimately a kind person who wants what's best for people in a vacuum doesn't change the fact that being part of the institutions he's part of causes harm and limits his ability to do good. You can be someone who genuinely wants to do good and who still does harm because of the system you're trying to do good in.
Superman isn't impossible because nobody so powerful could be so good. He's impossible because nobody can be so powerful, even with those physical powers, they cannot stand apart from society.
i see people gassing up The Incredibles to this day but no one wants to admit the entire thing is just Harrison Bergeron through the lens of US Suburbia
the most oppressed minority of all: people who are better and more capable of everyone else (me)
like genuinely the big scary line the villain drops is "when everyone's super no one will be". that's supposed to be terrifying and evil and dangerous. the ideological threat of the movie is the protagonists no longer being Special and Better Than Everyone.
It's a really fun spy-fi romp mashed up with the cape genre, and because it's good at what it does it nails the ideological knurl of american imperialism and exceptionalism at the core of both these genres. One of the better examples of why it's always extremely misguided to dismiss fascists as incapable of making good art.
It's an extremely competently executed piece of propaganda.
