Post by defiant1 on Nov 11, 2010 21:16:00 GMT -5
Shooter dialog often makes references that shows he isn't some moron who picked up a pen. Yes, he can toss in a cheesy line now and then or pander to a 15 year old's fantasies with sexual dialog, but for the most part I can't even compare him to most other comic book writers. He simply rambles about stuff most other comic writers are too ignorant to understand.
Mark Waid and Grant Morrison have used the latest science theories in their stories and Waid has openly said that he is a huge science geek.
I remember hearing the word nanotechnology in the Spawn movie and I wondered if the guy who wrote the script even had a clue what he was talking about or if he had just tossed out a word he'd read in a comic book. I'm betting on the latter of the two options.
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Your point? I first heard about nanotechnolgy from Star Trek: The Next Generation not a comic book.
Star Trek:TNG is a basic drama script handed over to a bunch of techno-geeks that tweak the dialog and add technical buzz words to explain what they are able to do. It is a FAR cry from the original series that actually tried to inject science research and scientific concepts into a story. You cited a prime example of what I detest about the literature passing off as science fiction these days. ST:TNG is just a Space Soap Opera.
McFarlane using the word "nanotechnology" in his movie is no different than what ST:TNG did. With Bloodshot, they actually went a hell of a lot further and actually tried to conceive of future possibilities. If you look at the script Shooter wrote for the recent Solar story, you can tell he's read up about the subject matter and is familiar with cutting edge science. I'm not really pleased with the way he dumbed it all down by having a hack sci-fiction writer create spandex superheroes and whores. Regardless, there is a backbone to his writing that goes deeper than what most writers are putting out there. Perhaps you are right about Morrison & Waid. Evidently they never write a comic title that interests me. The only Waid story that sticks out in my mind his the horribly disjointed Kingdom Come title. It was horribly illogical and I regret wasting my time on it. H. G. Wells is remembered today because he took cutting edge science of the day and projected forward with it rather than cloning some idea that was already in literature.
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