This hero thing just won’t let me go, it seems. What’s more, it keeps popping up in unexpected places, and forcing me to add to my list. Recently, Karen was doing her periodic exploration of new shows to watch and ended up with a program called Eli Stone. The show really didn’t interest me thatContinue reading “The Nature of a Hero, Part V”
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The Nature of a Hero: Epilogue?
So, I’ve talked a lot in recent posts about these categories that I’ve come up with about the nature of a hero; that is, what defines a hero in popular mythology, fiction, comic books, science fiction, or whatever genre in which they appear. I’ve been working through this to help organize my thoughts for theContinue reading “The Nature of a Hero: Epilogue?”
The Nature of a Hero, Part IV
While I was blogging my way through a week of Avengers retrospectives, leading up to my review of the film last weekend, I realized an aspect of the nature of a hero that I had mentioned in nearly every post, but that I did not, for some reason, recognize as being it’s own component ofContinue reading “The Nature of a Hero, Part IV”
The Nature of a Hero in Captain America
The series of my retrospectives before seeing the Avengers this weekend, along with my marathon geek-fest of movie watching this week, concludes with Captain America: The First Avenger. For a more detailed synopsis, here’s what I wrote after first seeing the movie last summer. We know the story: Steve Rogers wants to be a soldierContinue reading “The Nature of a Hero in Captain America”
The Nature of a Hero in Thor
What happens when a hero abuses his power? Thor is much different from the rest of the Avengers canon. First, the film is more fantastical. Here, we have left the groundings of science and weapons that we’ve known with Iron Man and Black Widow, and even the accidental scientific occurrence that created the Hulk. Here,Continue reading “The Nature of a Hero in Thor”