Suspension of Disbelief

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10 responses to “Suspension of Disbelief”

1. 

   Naked Bunny with a Whip

   February 15, 2012

   It’s the mundane things that get you. I can watch a Star Trek movie involving teleporters and time travel and world-killing space probes and not be bothered, but Starfleet Command’s leaky roof and rain-smashable windows bug me.

2. 

   Anonymous

   February 15, 2012

   Yeah, usually it’s details that trip me up, too.  I think it’s because if the premise itself is interesting enough, we can overlook the unlikeliness of that and its extensions, but extraneous details touch on another world we know and they’re off the mark, it gets jarring.

3. 

   Naryldor

   February 15, 2012

   It also happens in movies. Any of you Guys remember Mission Impossible 2? There’s a part of the movie that takes place in the city of Seville, Spain, supposedly during Holy Week, people around the world saw how they burn cardboard statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary on the streets and people walk around in typical costumes…

   Well, it’s not like that at all! The movie combined two traditions in one: Holy Week is indeed celebrated in Seville with processions of images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, but they are not made of cardboard but wood, and many of them are priceless carvings dating from seventeenth century and even earlier, I can assure you there are no short term plans to burn them. The part where the burning and walking around in costumes comes from is from the “Fallas” celebrations in Valencia, but they don’t burn religious images but funny cardboard statues (moking politicians, celebrities or whatever…). Anyway, the point is that when I went to the theater to watch the movie, I was ready to accept all the SFX bells and whistles, impossible acrobatics, lousy script, etc in exchange for a good time, but I was like WTF?! when I saw people in Seville wearing typical Valencian costumes and burning cardboard Jesus statues… xD

4. 

   sezaar

   February 15, 2012

   I like the older comics better. But yeah same here when I see a movie, read a book,… it’s the details that bother me.

5. 

   Naryldor

   February 15, 2012

   Annoyingly enough, there’re less martian perspectives/shadows/whatever in modern comics out of which make smart comments, huh? 😛

   That said, modern comics do tend to imagine women with extraordinary flexibility, and are often shown in some, to say the least, curious poses in which both their bottom and breasts are looking towards the reader, all that without breaking their backbones!

6. 

   sezaar

   February 15, 2012

    Yep but they also have a naivety to them that I miss in the few recent ones posted here. I’m no connaisseur when it comes to comics so my reference points aren’t that impressive to begin with… oh well maybe in twenty years these will be classics as well. 🙂

7. 

   Dominoed Daredoll

   February 16, 2012

    http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/
   +
   http://boobsdontworkthatway.tumblr.com/
   =
   D:

8. 

   Dominoed Daredoll

   February 16, 2012

   I recently came across this phenomena under the phrase of, “Readers will swallow a whale, but choke on a minnow.”

9. 

   MarkG

   February 16, 2012

   I’m going for the Marvel No-Prize for an explanation for this:

   On Earth 616, animals have a habit of becoming radioactive and biting people and such. Therefore, for patrons’ protection and the prevention of unwanted mutations, the zoo’s containment system is different from what we have in our world.

   Of course, this is the only instance of this difference showing up but it’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

10. 

    Wizard

    February 23, 2012

     Your theory also suggests an answer to the biggest question this image raised in my mind, namely, “Why on earth is Daredevil beating up lions?”  Obviously he was just concerned that they were about to bite some poor schmuck and mutate him, and 616 New York already has far too many costumed weirdos running around.