Re: Madoka Magika Fan-manga project of mine
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:03 am
Your new evil witch shit girls are not Madoka standard. I'm sorry, but the shit that you've come up with is barely a decent tribute to the concept of deals with the devil and their consequences, which I'm informed by both Alex and a number of reviews is a central theme to the series.
Sonic wouldn't blow other people's shit up for the hell of it if he didn't have to. He's a good guy in the series, and of Eggman or Robotnik or whoever the fuck it is wasn't threatening the Earth, freedom or the production of Krispy Kremes, he would find something less destructive and not vandalism-like to do. It's exciting, I don't question that, but it is a necessary task whose excitement is a bonus.
Have you ever heard of fridge logic? It's where an idea hits you as you think about something that probably isn't too implicative. Casual dismemberment is the wrong side of the uncanny valley for the majority of humanity, and of those for whom it isn't, most are generally in prison. It isn't cute. To most people on the planet, it's disturbing. I don't give a shit about how she uses it in battle, I don't care that it is possible to kill her because of some gemstone, or that she can't feel pain. That crap is fucking bizarre. The headless horseman myth was scary because it a) happened when you were helpless and b) the guy had no fucking head. It's not cute. It just. Fucking. Isn't. Join normal people and normal society once you've let go of the idea that being able to take your head off or limbs from your body without dying is cute.
The difference between this and My Life As A Teenage Robot is that in the eyes of the audience, a robot being "dismembered", or rather disassembled, is more acceptable than a human being dismembered. Dismembered Robots fall on a rather happier slope in the uncanny valley that a dismembered human being, magical or not, does not enjoy.
Sonic wouldn't blow other people's shit up for the hell of it if he didn't have to. He's a good guy in the series, and of Eggman or Robotnik or whoever the fuck it is wasn't threatening the Earth, freedom or the production of Krispy Kremes, he would find something less destructive and not vandalism-like to do. It's exciting, I don't question that, but it is a necessary task whose excitement is a bonus.
Have you ever heard of fridge logic? It's where an idea hits you as you think about something that probably isn't too implicative. Casual dismemberment is the wrong side of the uncanny valley for the majority of humanity, and of those for whom it isn't, most are generally in prison. It isn't cute. To most people on the planet, it's disturbing. I don't give a shit about how she uses it in battle, I don't care that it is possible to kill her because of some gemstone, or that she can't feel pain. That crap is fucking bizarre. The headless horseman myth was scary because it a) happened when you were helpless and b) the guy had no fucking head. It's not cute. It just. Fucking. Isn't. Join normal people and normal society once you've let go of the idea that being able to take your head off or limbs from your body without dying is cute.
The difference between this and My Life As A Teenage Robot is that in the eyes of the audience, a robot being "dismembered", or rather disassembled, is more acceptable than a human being dismembered. Dismembered Robots fall on a rather happier slope in the uncanny valley that a dismembered human being, magical or not, does not enjoy.