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[oyceter]

londonkds has much the same problems as I did with The Incredibles but expresses it ten times better ;). Here's the original post, with heavy spoilers, along with an interesting discussion in a later post that led me to the conclusion that many comics seem rather tech-phobic in nature, particularly if the human is willingly using technology to modify himself (see also the sand guy in Hellboy). Maybe it ties into a rather SFnal theme of the fear of the unclear lines that divide human from cyborg from robot? And another here with references to "Chosen" in Buffy. And even more on superheroes from scrollgirl. May have missed a few links here and there... feel free to drop a note in comments.

ETA: Not on The Incredibles, but fannishly also writes in the same vein re: human and technological merging here. (now here with added discussion)

ETA2: And now it's an article in the NY Times (use BugMeNot).

ETA3: selenak on Powers and Principalities, a take on superheroes in a realistic world.

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we are weirdly in sync, honey...

[fannishly.livejournal.com]

Hey, I posted earlier today on tech-phobia. And humans modifying themselves. It's oblique and incoherent, but it's there.

Re: we are weirdly in sync, honey...

[oyceter]

Yeah, I just saw! There's this weird time lag in which I read all my comments at work and only read the entries when I get home.

Told my mom about meeting you (actually, I said you overheard me talking about Taiwan in Starbucks, because last time I told her I met someone via the internet, she completely freaked out), and she says she's met you at Sifen's wedding! But that you probably wouldn't remember her, given that she was in a mass of ahyis. LOL.

I'm still amused by the whole everyone-in-Taiwan-knows-each-other thing.

Re: we are weirdly in sync, honey...

[fannishly.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! *hides face*

If she met me at Sifen's wedding, that means that she saw me in the bridesmaid's gown!

I remember now -- there was a whole table at the wedding banquet set aside for the "Hsinchu ahyis," and yes, I did meet them all in a mass. Hee!

Re: we are weirdly in sync, honey...

[oyceter]

Ooo, bridesmaid's gowns.. hopefully not as bad as Buffy's.

Swarms of ahyis. Seriously. One sort of gets used to them after a while, but it definitely freaked the boy out to meet just a few here. Wait till he visits my house *cackles*

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for linking to me! I didn't see your post on the movie, so will go read that now. Interesting discussions that have been stirred up by it, almost makes me want to spend money to go to the theatre ;)

[oyceter]

Hey, no problem ^_^. I'm mostly sitting back, being lazy, and hoping that someone eventually does some giant comparison of The Incredibles, Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and other things like that, so I can read it without having to think it up ;).