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Originally Posted by KellyC
Remember Captain Planet? That had quite a run.
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Too true. Too true.
I always thought TBS kept Captain Planet on because they just didn't have anything else to put in the timeslot. I mean, how many more times a day can you run old episodes of Saved by the Bell?
The article was interesting, but still reeks of.... I don't know what it is exactly. It seems like the ol' boy fell in love with the original Aquaman and that's that. Nothing that could ever be done with Aquaman is going to be good enough unless he's sporting the bright orange shirt, green tights and blonde Adonis good looks.
Case in point...
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I was once asked what I would do if I wrote Aquaman. The answer was simple. He would be King, I said, and never not King. I would make him love his wife with all the passion of the seven seas. I would make him shave with a sharp clamshell and cut his hair with a scuba knife, and I would send him on adventures seasoned with the imagination and mystery of the ocean, but most importantly I would make him command the @#$% fish.
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So, as long as he superhero blando, all is right with the world?
The only way...the only way that Aquaman is going to be successful is if you downplay his superhero powers. Certainly not get rid of them, but keep them on the back burner and use them sparingly (not that that would be hard...talk to fish?!?). Super powers do not a super story make. Does that make sense? The beauty of Batman is not that he's a high flying vigilante dressed up in a cape (although that's pretty cool
), it's the fact that he's just as screwed up as the rest of us. He's got his inner demons. Superman wouldn't be Superman if he didn't want to be Clark Kent so badly.
Is that a bit clearer?
Big Television is just following the trend. Spiderman 1, 2 and 3 in the works, Sin City, a new Batman movie, a sequel in the works, a new Superman movie and a successful series on the WB. To be perfectly honest, I imagine Aquaman was the 'biggest' comic/cartoon character they could grab without causing a whole lot of trouble.