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Subject: Re: SupermanIII (spoiler: dont worry, yo - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 15:03:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 29 15:03:48 1983
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    This a response to both the article quoted below and the one that
said, basically, "War Games is science fiction, so that means it
doesn't have to make sense."

            I thought that the most bogus part of the whole
        movie was that guy in the funny blue suit and red cape
        who kept leaping tall buildings in a single bound.
        Everthing else that you complained about was minor
        compared to that.  The whole idea of comics is to
        create an unreal world where anything can happen.
        Lighten up a little and suspend your disbeliefs.

    I am a devoted science fiction and fantasy reader, and there is
very little that people can say about those fields that irks me more
than the sentiments above.  If there is no internal consistency, there
is no tension, and therefore no plot.  If problems are solved by
changing the rules as you go along, how can you get involved with the
story?  Fantasy and science fiction require the creation of new sets
of rules, not a freedom from any set of rules whatsoever.  In the
recent Superman movies, they ignore this and keep adding new powers to
Superman as needed, utterly destroying any possibility of involvement
with his problems.

    The principle of "suspension of disbelief" applies to accepting
the news set of rules, not turning your whole mind off for the
duration.

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