06
Oct
A very Robbie Heroes rant, Part Deux
- Robbie:
- ok...so here's the real rant. in season 4, the heroes congregate in a carnival. now how stereotypical is that?! so they start living in a carnival so they can live openly and normally. a carnival? that's the metaphor the writers chose to pick!? what about the whole moral of being different isn't bad, it's a gift? no, instead, let's say actually being different means you have to live in a setting typically reserved for people considered freaks.
- Liz:
- hmm even if its not bad, maybe it doesn't get rid of peoples fascination with you, cage-style
- Robbie:
- and you only get there by using a crazy spinny compass
- Liz:
- there's a compass. like pirates of the caribbean?!
- Robbie:
- ooh yea exactly. but spinnier. ah, i hate marginalizing people and the whole show is trying to point out how horrible that is for people. then BAM, carnival. circus. pathetic.
- Liz:
- hahaha. or is it like deep commentary that they can't escape the confines of being different and they can't escape that society will never accept them?
- Robbie:
- yea, that's all true and fine. and they want to just live normally, which they can with others like them (think sweden). but don't choose a carnival to be the vehicle for that. choose a caribbean island. ok, i think i got that rant out of my system