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Sunday, May 08, 2005
Tapeful Returns (Essay)
My trend for strange titles actually dates back to my old 'Adventures of J & Fra' comic strips I started drawing when I was 11, and continued to infinity (I don't draw them now, but I would. I just don't). Never one to be restrained by paper (you should read some of my Primary School stories, you really should), the strip became a safe haven from normalness and a happy trip into some person's mind, and one of the things I started doing early on was to randomly think up the most bizarre-yet-actually-logical title for episodes. I understood them because I knew what I was thinking when I wrote them; if you wanted to get it, it probably wouldn't be easy.
I'll tell you more about J & Fra someday. I'm here now to say that, being ill, I settled for watching some old video tapes for the past couple of mornings, and one of the ones I viewed was the Batman cartoon series of my youth (I think they've made some fancy futuristic one now, according to Rob) - to be precise, two episodes.
I never watched that show when I was young, but when it happened to be there in the background of my living room, I was always confused by what seemed to be the immenseness of complexity, darkness and indescribable depression that seemed to revolve around it. As Rob has told me before, I've always had a strange knack for finding something, which is actually quite simple, insanely complex. That's usually the case with novels, particularly ones we were forced to read years ago in English, though that might be because I skip-read them (My summary of 'Hill of the Red Fox': some English boy goes to stay with his Scottish cousins because he wants to be Scottish. Unfortunately, someone wants to kill him and it turns out that the Russians are trying to take over Scotland, as well as capture the boy and his cousins. That is my entire understanding of the novel).
Anyway, the show probably wasn't like that, but with the jagged clips I caught every so often, it made it seem like a massive, intricate story. This has nothing to do with what I wanted to say.
Batman always made himself out to look really tough; but from all my memories of the programme, he never once got the better of anybody in a fight of any form. He could arrest them, chase them, do anything; but if it ever came to a one-on-one brawl, it was curtains for him. This point is further emphasised by the insane difficulty of bosses on the SNES' 'Batman and Robin: The Animated Adventures' game. Why?! Why can't he actually overcome someone on his own for once?! Even on the video I saw, he never got anywhere by attacking someone; ever.
If someone can explain to me why Batman always turns out to be so weak in combat, please tell me.
As Rob said to me once, the simplest solution is the one which he never considers: 'Why doesn't he just shoot The Joker?'
My trend for strange titles actually dates back to my old 'Adventures of J & Fra' comic strips I started drawing when I was 11, and continued to infinity (I don't draw them now, but I would. I just don't). Never one to be restrained by paper (you should read some of my Primary School stories, you really should), the strip became a safe haven from normalness and a happy trip into some person's mind, and one of the things I started doing early on was to randomly think up the most bizarre-yet-actually-logical title for episodes. I understood them because I knew what I was thinking when I wrote them; if you wanted to get it, it probably wouldn't be easy.
I'll tell you more about J & Fra someday. I'm here now to say that, being ill, I settled for watching some old video tapes for the past couple of mornings, and one of the ones I viewed was the Batman cartoon series of my youth (I think they've made some fancy futuristic one now, according to Rob) - to be precise, two episodes.
I never watched that show when I was young, but when it happened to be there in the background of my living room, I was always confused by what seemed to be the immenseness of complexity, darkness and indescribable depression that seemed to revolve around it. As Rob has told me before, I've always had a strange knack for finding something, which is actually quite simple, insanely complex. That's usually the case with novels, particularly ones we were forced to read years ago in English, though that might be because I skip-read them (My summary of 'Hill of the Red Fox': some English boy goes to stay with his Scottish cousins because he wants to be Scottish. Unfortunately, someone wants to kill him and it turns out that the Russians are trying to take over Scotland, as well as capture the boy and his cousins. That is my entire understanding of the novel).
Anyway, the show probably wasn't like that, but with the jagged clips I caught every so often, it made it seem like a massive, intricate story. This has nothing to do with what I wanted to say.
Batman always made himself out to look really tough; but from all my memories of the programme, he never once got the better of anybody in a fight of any form. He could arrest them, chase them, do anything; but if it ever came to a one-on-one brawl, it was curtains for him. This point is further emphasised by the insane difficulty of bosses on the SNES' 'Batman and Robin: The Animated Adventures' game. Why?! Why can't he actually overcome someone on his own for once?! Even on the video I saw, he never got anywhere by attacking someone; ever.
If someone can explain to me why Batman always turns out to be so weak in combat, please tell me.
As Rob said to me once, the simplest solution is the one which he never considers: 'Why doesn't he just shoot The Joker?'
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