With the middle of the year having settle earlier this week ( July 2nd for the curious ) , it ’s time to take line of descent , look back and wonder : What has 2009 instruct us so far ?
Here are five pieces of wisdom that we ’ve gleaned from the last six month ( and handful of daytime ):
President Obama Is The Greatest Hero Of All
As his many comic book appearances have demonstrated , there ’s no end to our current president ’s ability to salvage the earthly concern from any writing style of menace . Amazing Spider - Man has him oppose supervillains , Youngblood shows him carrying massive laserguns to dart turncoat soldiers taking over the White House , Drafted gives us an exotic - invasion - battlin ’ Barack and Barack The Barbarian brings everything back down to brand and black magic basic . He ’s like a modern - day Arnold Schwarzenegger – and enough to make us wonder just how the comic industry would ’ve dealt with John McCain winning the election alternatively .
Threats To Humanity Are Getting Weaker
Last class , it was the Large Hadron Collider and the hypothesis that it would rend beingness asunder when someone throw the switch , and this year , it was … Swine Flu . It ca n’t just be me , can it ? I mean , Swine Flu … Does n’t that seem like a step down from the technological “ Our Quest For Knowledge May destruct Us All ” conceptual genius that imperil us last class ? Even ring it “ the H1N1 Influenza Virus ” still sound kind of shit . Okay , so there ’s no luck of “ hardon ” spoonerisms , but still : Pandemics ? Have n’t we done that already ? I ’m holding out hope thatsewer monsterswill lighten up the remaining calendar month of the year , however .
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The BBC Should Stop Making Us Feel Old
Yes , we know that it ’s just one of those floating homilies that you have a go at it that you ’re get quondam when the police officer and doctors start look untested , but selecting a twelve yr honest-to-goodness to be the new Doctor Who really does n’t make us feel very unspoilt about ourselves nonetheless . I have it off that we get going with the oldest of the Doctors and have progressively gotten younger since then – well , roughly – but between David Tennant and Matt Smith , I ’m convinced that we ’ll have our first pre - adolescent Timelord by 2015 . And then , the next one will be a little baby , just like in 2001 : A Space Odyssey .
Joss Whedon Can refuse The Laws Of Nature
If nothing else , the renewal of Dollhouse leaven that he can hold up the laws of television . I would n’t put money on him being ineffectual to fly if he really wanted to .
Fuck Dystopia
Terminator Salvation and Watchmen – two downbeat moving-picture show offering Zea mays everta versions of pessimistic scene of humanity ( “ at long last , man ’s greed and laziness will lead us to become disconnected from our fellow man and operate by the machine and mechanisms that we created to alleviate our day-by-day macrocosm – but does n’t this deadening - motion action sequence await live ? ” ) – both failed to touch expected value at the box authority , while Star Trek ’s hopeful , colorful interpretation of a time to come that may be too electron lens - flarey to be cuddly but is nonetheless positivist surpassed arithmetic mean . eradicator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles also died a slow death on television . The obvious conclusion ? No - one wants to their entertainment to end with the lesson “ We ’re all screwed . ” The Dark Knight ’s glossy hopelessness was so last twelvemonth , people . We had n’t experienced so much of the economic downswing and/or the hopetrain of Obama back then . We were all so much more innocent and desperate to be ill-use by our movies . ( Along the same line of work – Size affair : Terminator , featuring human - sized robots , fails to become a hitting . Transformers : retaliation of The Fallen , sport giant golem , break box office records . I intend you’re able to see what I ’m enunciate here . See also : Robot On Robot Action Is More Acceptable Than Robot On Batman Action and Megan Fox Is Hotter Than Moon Bloodgood . Sorry , But There It Is . )
bolster with this new knowledge , we look forward to what the rest of the year can teach us – presuming , of track , that the cloaca ogre do n’t decide to team up with Joss Whedon and end the existence before then . Pray for us .
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