Poetic range

I was thinking about Legends of Tomorrow and the Arrowverse...

... okay, first I was thinking about teaching at Sunnydale High, and then about iambic pentameter, amd then about how Shakespeare endures because his characters are just so human

and that Legends of Tomorrow episode where he started writing about superheroes? That would be like, retro, like old school King Arthur stuff, all those sagas about some super warrior with a super power. Those had been around. Shakespeare wrote about people shaped people. Imitable violence. And one reason the royal stories endure is when your family argues it can feel like the end of the world, like it can bring down kingdoms and end everything, even if family mostly tends to involve less stabbing and poison and so on. So instead of portraying nobles as fundamentally different than thee and I, the stories we keep hold of are just, like, what if they're just us? Us but with all the power. Fucked up families that can start wars.

So if he was writing about superheroes, the powers part might grab the attention, but I reckon he'd write more about how they're people sized people. You know? Like sure they can shake the world, but they're us.

And I was thinking how Legends of Tomorrow, by being completely gonzo and able to have anything happen, has *very* people shaped people. ( Read more... )

So that's my thoughts for the day.
... I have a college trained urge to go looking for sources and making sure I know what I'm talking about, but it is like half one in the morning, I probably do not know what I'm talking about.


But these are the kind of thoughts I'm having lately. Wandering ones, cause it's not like we need to get anywhere.


Maybe I should go watch some episodes or something...