Amph Here's Some Money, Go See A Swap Thing: DCU/Elseworlds Discussion

That shouldn't be a problem. Always easier when binging a show rather than waiting a week only to go.."that's it?".

 

The good thing about Arrow's "filler" episodes is that the metastory and island flashbacks are always in the background. So even slow or apparent meaningless episodes are bound to offer a treat or two.

 

Is that because you hate gays, or homoerotic scenes make you uncomfortably aroused?

I'm just trying to get a sense behind the "gay = bad" sentiment you expressed.

 

Its not that gay = bad, its that a middle aged batman hanging out with a teenage boy in tights is pretty awkward. A middle aged man fighting crime with a 30 year old woman in tights isn't as bad.

 

That could be seen just as bad....I don't understand.

 

It has a lot less pederastic implications.

 

Oh, so gays are pedophiles, is that it?

 

If you're Fredric Wertham, it does.

 

You know she's probably going to be a teenager and thus it'll be just as creepy, right? And that, by roughly the same logic, having an older male Robin would be just as not creepy?

 

Try harder

I never said having an older male Robin wouldn't be just as not creepy. Captain America and Bucky had the same thing going on and the movies changed that, and there's nothing gay about Steve and Bucky(not that there would be anything wrong with that, they're consenting adults). But keeping it exactly the same way as the comics would be a problem.

And Jena Malone is way too old to be playing a teenager.

 

Six, you need to stop digging yourself in a hole and just ask to be allowed to back out of the comment entirely.

 

So this?

 

Did you even watch The Winter Soldier? That was totally a Cap/Bucky love story.

 

They can do a Suicide Squad movie but can't do a stand alone intro Wonder Woman movie?

 

In the age of Google being so ignorant is indefensible.

http://comicbook.com/2014/10/15/warner-bros-announces-massive-dc-entertainment-slate-wonder-woma/

 

Bucky was changed in the films to make him a soldier, since it didn't really make since in 616 that a fifteen year old would be allowed to serve willingly. Ultimate Cap did the same thing. That's different from taking twelve year old Dick Grayson or thirteen year old Carrie Kelly out as Robin. Not to mention, how is adoption perverse? Over the last decade, DC has made a point of stating that the Robins were adopted.

 

Yeah, too bad that does nothing to lessen the whole child endangerment thing...

 

Eh, they were going to likely go out and fight crime on their own anyway. Bruce either could have them locked up forever in prison, let them get themselves killed, or train them.

 

Except that this is all VERY recent, and the head of DC filming said she had no idea how they could do a stand alone Wonder Woman film. So again, get off me.

 

So help me if they shelve a Wonder Woman movie...

 

I believe they were announced at the same time.

 

No but your imposed dichotomy made it painfully obvious that you weren't even considering that as a possible option, so now you're backpedaling. And, I might add, not addressing the other facet of the problem via this dodge:

which suggests that you're not as concerned with the possibility of the implications for a female teenaged Robin as you are with a male teenaged Robin (The former, incidentally, has already happened twice in comics, so it's not like it's purely hypothetical). Which, to me at least, reads primarily as your main concern being to read pederasty into the Batman and Robin dynamic either because you're instinctively driven to think "LULZ GAY BATMAN" due to years of cultural conditioning or that you legitimately think the natural conclusion to draw about a man who isn't as firmly entrenched and established in the heterosexual camp as possible adopting a boy is that he feels an inappropriate sexual attraction towards the boy.

In either case, you may want to reevaluate your thinking.

P.S. If you feel the need to use the qualifier "Not that there's anything wrong with that" at any point in a conversation you've screwed up.

 

I find the Wonder Twins way more inappropriate, myself...