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Post by tabby on Dec 3, 2021 11:25:08 GMT -5
Right that is me sorted for tv viewing for the week - thank you devogirl!!!
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Post by Taurean on Dec 3, 2021 21:35:35 GMT -5
I'm embarrassed to admit I never got over my teenage Marvel fan identity, I just never read any DC comics I've always been more of a Marvel fan, I only read DC when there is a writer I like. These days I read mostly Image comics though. I've enjoyed the MCU so far, even though it's bordering on saturation. But I will be very excited if/when they announce an X-Men movie.
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Post by cristina on Dec 5, 2021 0:36:34 GMT -5
Awesome
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Post by devogirl on May 19, 2022 8:48:57 GMT -5
Thanks to myrrh for sharing this awesome video. Super excited for Echo to get her own series but I think we still have to wait a year before it's out.
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Post by devogirl on May 19, 2022 21:17:36 GMT -5
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Post by myrrh on May 20, 2022 20:56:28 GMT -5
Re: the above video about Hawkeye. He points out that disabled superheroes usually have a power that either offsets or weaponizes their disability. The firsts step for any minority group's representation in media is their minority status is a gimmick, and since superheroes are built around a gimmick, it makes perfect sense we have Daredevil or Dr. Strange. The next step of representation is for the minority-ness of the character to have nothing to do with their casting, right? (I can't think of a whole lot of examples of this, but Walter Jr. was a good one.)
So, that video has led to some shower thoughts of trying to come up with a disabled superhero whose power has jack all to do with their disability. (It seems like maybe this might apply to Echo?) I don't know much about superheroes or comics so I didn't come up with anything too creative, but it's been fun to think about. What if someone had super strength and was bulletproof, and they also didn't have arms? There's a lady I see online who uses her feet for everything, and it's not hard to imagine her doing crimefighty stuff in a catsuit. How about a guy who has limitless energy, he can stay awake forever and speedread and climb a mountain without so much as breaking a sweat.... but he's got CP and uses a mobility aid.
What if their power was a bit of a pain in the ass when combined with their disability? There was a discussion on here a few weeks ago about a group of PWD exploring what it would be like to go into space, and one of the things that was brought up was how a blind person would orient themselves in zero G. The solution trialed by the crew was to have a small sound-emitting device on the "floor," and all the blind participants reported having no trouble orienting themselves. Had it not been for that podcast, I never would have thought about how crazy it would be for a blind person to have flying as a superpower. I remember learning how to tell which way is "up" after getting buried in snow from an avalanche, because it's apparently very disorienting to not have any visual cues when you could be rotated about all the axes. I have every confidence that anyone could develop a sense of gravity while flying, sighted or not, but it would be a hell of a learning curve. Same thing goes for a blind person who has the power to phase shift and walk through objects/walls.
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Post by devogirl on May 21, 2022 8:18:50 GMT -5
Actually I think he is being a bit too hard Daredevil. Like in the quote I posted at the beginning of this thread, some disability activists like the fact that he weaponizes his disability. It's not ableism necessarily, but subverting expectations. In the DD comics, it varies wildly according to how well the writer deals with this. The Netflix series did have some bad moments, but it also had a lot that imho were great. The writers did a pretty good job of remembering that Matt really is blind, and his superpowers don't make that totally go away. The amount of detail they put into the set design of his apartment is incredible, although if you watch on a small screen you might miss it. There's also a great scene in season 2 where he sneaks past a security guard who can't imagine a blind guy would be a threat. But I also love the idea of the superhero whose power as nothing to do with their disability. I think this is kind of the case with Echo and Hawkeye. Also the actor who plays Echo is an amputee so they added that to her character even though it wasn't in the comics. It's even more incidental to her powers. I think this was also the case with the Deaf character in Eternals but that was such a terrible movie and her character was so boring that I can't even remember her name. All I remember is that she used ASL which ok, the other characters were speaking English even though supposedly they were living through centuries of Earth history. But there's one scene where she signs "time to go" and clearly the sign is pointing at a wristwatch, even though it's the Bronze Age. Anyway this reminded me, fun fact! Did you know that in the comics Thor was also disabled? In the comics, instead of just arriving from Asgard as a god, Thor has a human alter ego named Donald Blake who walks with a limp. This is pure ableism, as he is meant to be the pathetic opposite of Thor in every way: sequart.org/magazine/1069/the-mighty-thor-the-frail-and-feeble-donald-blake-what-are-we-to-make-of-the-hero-his-alter-ego-in-the-mighty-thor-the-stone-men-from-saturn-from-august-1962/So it's good they didn't bring any of that into the movies. But what if there was some better way to rewrite it? There's your CP hero with a mobility aid, haha.
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Post by Green on May 21, 2022 16:32:48 GMT -5
So, that video has led to some shower thoughts of trying to come up with a disabled superhero whose power has jack all to do with their disability. (It seems like maybe this might apply to Echo?) I don't know much about superheroes or comics so I didn't come up with anything too creative, but it's been fun to think about. What if someone had super strength and was bulletproof, and they also didn't have arms? There's a lady I see online who uses her feet for everything, and it's not hard to imagine her doing crimefighty stuff in a catsuit. How about a guy who has limitless energy, he can stay awake forever and speedread and climb a mountain without so much as breaking a sweat.... but he's got CP and uses a mobility aid. I think that really depends on the disability. I think that's a great idea for something like amputees, to have super strength but still be viewed as disabled in a typical sense. But I'm not sure that you can do something like that with somebody with CP. If somebody could climb a mountain without as much as breaking a sweat, then I don't see why they would need a mobility aid. I'm not sure how you can write that in a believable way. I've thought of story ideas where a person has superpowers for a limited time, but then revert back to their typical disabled status. That could work. But it would still be through "fixing" the disability. For me, "fixing" makes the most sense for portraying disability anyway, the superpower seems best as something that overcomes a weakness. If say, a guy with DMD had an ability to go through walls, that could be interesting, but I would find it more interesting if going through walls added more motivation to find a way to overcome the muscle weakness so that going through walls also becomes easier.
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Post by myrrh on May 21, 2022 17:54:36 GMT -5
I think that really depends on the disability. I think that's a great idea for something like amputees, to have super strength but still be viewed as disabled in a typical sense. But I'm not sure that you can do something like that with somebody with CP. If somebody could climb a mountain without as much as breaking a sweat, then I don't see why they would need a mobility aid. I'm not sure how you can write that in a believable way. Unlimited energy isn't the same thing as being able to move efficiently, that's all I'm going for. I've known plenty of people who could walk but needed aides for things besides strength. Balance, range of motion, muscle control, those are all physical limitations that would interact with the physically enhancing superpower. I've thought of story ideas where a person has superpowers for a limited time, but then revert back to their typical disabled status. That could work. But it would still be through "fixing" the disability. For me, "fixing" makes the most sense for portraying disability anyway, the superpower seems best as something that overcomes a weakness. If say, a guy with DMD had an ability to go through walls, that could be interesting, but I would find it more interesting if going through walls added more motivation to find a way to overcome the muscle weakness so that going through walls also becomes easier. This reminds me of Animorphs! The team had recruited some disabled kids in some of the player books. Morphing has a time limit, so these kids would be able to turn into healthy animals for an hour or two, then would have to return to their normal body when time was up. One of the things about the power was that you'd always be fully healed when you morphed or demorphed, so this resulted the kids with injury-acquired disabilities becoming magically healed after they got their powers. Secrecy was a big thing though, so they had to go on pretending they still had a SCI.
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Post by devogirl on Jul 27, 2022 1:47:19 GMT -5
It's happening! There will be a new Daredevil series on Disney+, starring Charlie Cox and it will be 18 episodes 😍 Not until 2024 but still super exciting!! And we will see DD in the new She-Hulk series next month. And also apparently in the next animated Spider-Man movie. Can't wait!
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Post by Celaena on Jul 28, 2022 22:37:42 GMT -5
I think that really depends on the disability. I think that's a great idea for something like amputees, to have super strength but still be viewed as disabled in a typical sense. But I'm not sure that you can do something like that with somebody with CP. If somebody could climb a mountain without as much as breaking a sweat, then I don't see why they would need a mobility aid. I'm not sure how you can write that in a believable way. Unlimited energy isn't the same thing as being able to move efficiently, that's all I'm going for. I've known plenty of people who could walk but needed aides for things besides strength. Balance, range of motion, muscle control, those are all physical limitations that would interact with the physically enhancing superpower. I've thought of story ideas where a person has superpowers for a limited time, but then revert back to their typical disabled status. That could work. But it would still be through "fixing" the disability. For me, "fixing" makes the most sense for portraying disability anyway, the superpower seems best as something that overcomes a weakness. If say, a guy with DMD had an ability to go through walls, that could be interesting, but I would find it more interesting if going through walls added more motivation to find a way to overcome the muscle weakness so that going through walls also becomes easier. This reminds me of Animorphs! The team had recruited some disabled kids in some of the player books. Morphing has a time limit, so these kids would be able to turn into healthy animals for an hour or two, then would have to return to their normal body when time was up. One of the things about the power was that you'd always be fully healed when you morphed or demorphed, so this resulted the kids with injury-acquired disabilities becoming magically healed after they got their powers. Secrecy was a big thing though, so they had to go on pretending they still had a SCI. Which Animorphs book was this? Because small child me would have coveted it.
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Post by devogirl on Sept 12, 2022 7:35:10 GMT -5
Charlie Cox appearing in She Hulk on Disney+! So excited!! I've been loving this series anyway. He hasn't showed up yet though. Will it be this week?
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Post by zachta on Sept 18, 2022 18:06:27 GMT -5
I love this! 🤣
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Post by devogirl on Oct 6, 2022 21:54:55 GMT -5
OMG it finally happened!!! After teasing us for weeks, Daredevil finally appeared on She-Hulk, and not just for a few seconds. Basically the whole episode. And he's much more like in the comics, funny and sexy. The whole episode was just like a comics issue, so satisfying. Even if you haven't been watching the whole series, you can easily drop in for that one. But I've been loving the whole series anyway, very worth watching and a welcome break from the grimdark super violence of the Netflix series.
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Post by devogirl on Mar 27, 2023 3:38:03 GMT -5
Living legend Donnie Yen is in John Wick 4 as a blind assassin, his second time playing a blind martial arts master after appearing in Star Wars: Rogue One. There's an interesting interview with the director and a clip here:
It was Donnie Yen's idea himself to play a blind character in Star Wars, and he had a lot of input in John Wick 4 also, not sure about that one detail though. I guess he really likes the Zatoichi archetype, haha. Speaking of which, there's a pretty good article on all the Zatoichi-inspired films here:
I will probably skip John Wick 4 (too violent for me) but he's so good in Star Wars. As much as I enjoyed Andor, I'm still sad that Chirrut Imwe didn't get his own Disney+ show. It would have been so good!
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