Re: [BNW] Death of a Campaign

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>And don't forget 'The Watchmen' either.  Another great
>government-controlling-the-paranormals setting.
>

That's a little closer to what Matt seems to be aiming for with his "media 
endorsement" thing.  The closest analogy there would be Ozymandis and his 
benefit performance (Issue #7 or 8, I think).

Still, I'm not sure the analogy works because there don't seem to be enough 
heroes to hate.  I must admit, in Watchmen, the rioting that results as a 
result of the heroes (all six of them!) filling in for the police when the 
latter goes on strike seems a little...odd.

I would have to re-read the series, but thinking back, it seems to me that 
the public reacted (or overreacted) to heroes and  _then_ the government 
stepped in to limit vigilante activity with the Keane Act.  (They needed a 
law to deal with 2, maybe 3 heroes - Ozymandis had retired and Comedian and 
Manhattan were sanctioned anyway, leaving Night Owl, Rorschch and a so-so 
Silk Spectre - again, doesn't this strike anyone as a bit extreme?)

This sequence is the exact opposite of BNW, where the governments set out to 
paint the Deltas as evil and _then_ the public bought into it.

> > >I'd have to dig a little deeper to find the section of the background
>that
> > >talks about Delta/media endorsements.  I'm not even sure what book it's
>in.
> > >But it's there, just because it struck us as so odd after all the 
>lengths
> > >gone to to pain Deltas in general (unless you're government or Triumph
> > >lackeys) as having a lousy lot in life.  Unfortunately, I don't have 
>time
>at
> > >the moment.
> >
> > Think about Miller's Batman:  The Dark Knight Returns.
> > The only superhero allowed to operate is the one who has agreed to be
> > completely under government authority.  Everyone else had to retire or
> > disappear - or were retired - because of the "hate and jealousy of the
> > small people".
> >
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> > darious@darious.com
> >
> > Why did the chicken cross the road?
> >
> > Albert Einstein:
> > Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken
> > depends on your frame of reference.
> >
> >
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