My Wife is in TV Guide - Who Wants To Be A Superhero 2

[Relique du Madde]

I dunno just how big marketability is a factor - I mean, does anyone seriously think the winner will become a serious, long running comic? Probably just a one shot, along with the movie. Which they aren't even trying to be serious with - "Mega Snake"? They just took one of their lousy critter movies, slapped Feedback in it.

I Blame mega snake on Sci-fi channnel's wanting to cash in on Snakes on a Plane.., which would have made sense if it was released last fall..

 

[Glyfair]

I dunno just how big marketability is a factor - I mean, does anyone seriously think the winner will become a serious, long running comic?

Judging by the first comic, I'd say zero. I think the original Champions comic (based on the RPG game) was better done.

 

[trancejeremy]

I Blame mega snake on Sci-fi channnel's wanting to cash in on Snakes on a Plane.., which would have made sense if it was released last fall..

Well, they've also made:

Basilisk: The Serpent King
Boa vs Python
Fire Serpent
Project Viper (not about the car)
Snake King
Snakehead Terror (okay, actually a fish, but )
Python II

I think they just have a thing for snakes.

But my point was, rather than thinking of the winner as actually being a marketable commodity, and making a superhero movie about him/her (like they implied during the first series), they simply stuck him in one of their monster movies (hopefully more than just a cameo as a victim, but that's what it looks like in the trailer)

 

[Villano]

Please, please tell me that Mega Snake is a Feedback movie and not the Feedback movie!

I also read that the Feedback comic was terrible and he didn't even have the superpowers he created (gaining the abilities of video game characters), instead he had generic electric or magnetic powers. Can anyone confim this?

If this is all true, then what's the point? You win a chance for your character to appear in a comic book and not be at all like the character you created, and you get to appear in a cameo in a bad CG, giant animal movie. I feel like quoting Peter Boyle from Everybody Loves Raymond when his wife referred to herself as a "trophy wife". Boyle asked, "What contest in hell did I win?"

*Sigh* Sorry for being so negative. Anyway, back to the show itself:

I didn't really watch the first couple of episodes because I couldn't stand Mr. Mitzvah. And I'm hoping Defuser goes next because, well, he's kind of a jerk.

I'm sad to see Basura go. I was rooting for her (because she's cute ), however, I can't complain since she failed such an obvious test. Now, I'm kinda hoping Parthenon wins (just because I'm curious how Stan would handle his sexual orientation).

The comic covers all look good. I hope the contestants get to keep their's. BTW, are they any sites with all the covers? I'd like to get another look at them.

Anyway, if Hygenia wins, I hope she gets her own movie and isn't stuck in Bionic Head Lice or something.

 

[bento]

Now, I'm kinda hoping Parthenon wins (just because I'm curious how Stan would handle his sexual orientation).

Considering how many characters Stan was part of creating or writing that broke racial and other stereo-types, I don't think there would be that much of a problem.

Back in the early 1970s Stan or Roy Thomas hired black artists and writers to create and contribute to comics like Giant-Man and Power Man, and women artists and writers for Night Nurse, Beware the Claws of the Cat and Shanna of the Jungle. He's progressive like that.

But then again, that whole aspect of Parthenon might get white-washed over just like Feedback's powers.

 

[Villano]

But then again, that whole aspect of Parthenon might get white-washed over just like Feedback's powers.

I can imagine a "boyfriend" reference turning up, but nothing beyond that (like, say, a gay kiss).

 

[trancejeremy]

Please, please tell me that Mega Snake is a Feedback movie and not the Feedback movie!

I also read that the Feedback comic was terrible and he didn't even have the superpowers he created (gaining the abilities of video game characters), instead he had generic electric or magnetic powers. Can anyone confim this?

If this is all true, then what's the point? You win a chance for your character to appear in a comic book and not be at all like the character you created, and you get to appear in a cameo in a bad CG, giant animal movie.

You also get an action figure!

But yeah, it seems like something of a con. And I really think that a proper Feedback movie would have gotten better ratings than "Mega snake".

I guess some of it is that what if the winner turns out to be a regular person, not an actor? (Season 1 was mostly part time actors). Could they handle doing a movie? Although then they could have done an animated feature, I'd guess.

 

[Felon]

Stan's comments are live. No idea if he has a script, but he is interacting with the contestants on a live basis, not taped, and responding to things they say. They do edit things, and the conversations go on longer than what you see of course, but that is what they are saying to each other, and he does appear on the screen in front of them.

That is good intel. Thanks.

 

[Felon]

Considering how many characters Stan was part of creating or writing that broke racial and other stereo-types, I don't think there would be that much of a problem.

Back in the early 1970s Stan or Roy Thomas hired black artists and writers to create and contribute to comics like Giant-Man and Power Man, and women artists and writers for Night Nurse, Beware the Claws of the Cat and Shanna of the Jungle. He's progressive like that.

It's not a matter of being progressive so much as trying to cash in on a new market (though it does admittedly take some of the former quality to move forward with the latter). Power Man certainly did not break stereotypes, after all. He was a jive-talking high-school dropout from the ghetto. It was just part of an attempt to cash in on blaxploitation films. Similarly, his stabs at fem heroes was attempted during the height of the "women's lib" movement. Look at early portrayals of Invisible Girl and the Wasp to see how Stan initially treated female characters.

 

[Felon]

You also get an action figure!

But yeah, it seems like something of a con. And I really think that a proper Feedback movie would have gotten better ratings than "Mega snake".

I guess some of it is that what if the winner turns out to be a regular person, not an actor?

Well, they can be a bad actor in a bad movie, I guess.

This season, it's almost certain that the winner will be an oddball of sorts. I suspect Parthenon's gaiety would be among the easier things to gloss over...particularly if he's just going to wind giant gerbil food.

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