{"id":3320,"date":"2014-10-23T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/23\/batgirlrising-im-in-a-weird-place-right-now\/"},"modified":"2014-10-23T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:42:21","slug":"batgirlrising-im-in-a-weird-place-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/23\/batgirlrising-im-in-a-weird-place-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/batgirlrising.tumblr.com\/post\/100757542853\/im-in-a-weird-place-right-now-as-i-think-a-lot\">batgirlrising<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m in a weird place right now, as I think a lot of us are. The WB\/DC announced slate of films gives us the anticipation of some things we\u2019ve wanted for a long time: a female-led superhero film, specifically a Wonder Woman film, a superhero of color film, a white superhero being played by an actor of color, a straight superhero being played by a queer actor. All this was sort of beyond my wildest dreams just a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>But the DC Universe at large is a shambles right now of terrible storytelling and disrespect for it\u2019s characters. The New 52 has broken my heart repeatedly. Zach Snyder has proven himself an unworthy custodian of the legacy of Superman, let alone Christopher Nolan. If we wait 75 years for a Wonder Woman movie and they give us a desaturated mess of rapist Amazons and Zeus\u2019s illegitimate daughter, I\u2019m going to wish they hadn\u2019t made the film at all. And that\u2019s the honest truth. Diana, Princess of Themyscira deserves fucking better than that. We all do.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of this coin, we have the Marvel universe. Marvel is really nailing good storytelling right now, in every medium. Everyone on the planet adores the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They cast actors who are basically the comic pages come to life, and they don\u2019t waste their talents. But it\u2019s seriously a white boys club. There\u2019s no reason it should be, except for the fact that everyone in charge at Marvel Studios seems to want it that way. It\u2019s depressing as fuck.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just really not as excited about the future of superhero movies as I should be. As I WANT to be. It makes me really sad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>batgirlrising: I\u2019m in a weird place right now, as I think a lot of us are. The WB\/DC announced slate of films gives us the anticipation of some things we\u2019ve wanted for a long time: a female-led superhero film, specifically a Wonder Woman film, a superhero of color film, a white superhero being played by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/23\/batgirlrising-im-in-a-weird-place-right-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}