Alan Moore's thoughts on Heroes

[The Question]

Go onto the Watchmen board and post an article about someone not liking Alan Moore and watch them go ape ****.

So, another group of people behaving irrationally justifies all irrational behavior?

Moore has a point but he really shouldn't be looking into a realistic explanation about an air burst in a show about SUPERHEROES!

He can if he wants to. If he doesn't like the show because he feels that the writers don't put enough effort into it, that's his bag, baby. No reason to get up in a hubbub about it.

 

[chaseter]

No, commenting on television shows on how they are unrealistic while writing outlandish fiction is hypocrisy. Moore is not a god....forbidding any body stand up to his comments

 

[The Question]

No, commenting on television shows on how they are unrealistic while writing outlandish fiction is hypocrisy. Moore is not a god....forbidding any body stand up to his comments

It's not hypocrisy. There are is a school of thought, which includes myself and it seems Alan Moore, that believes that when writing fiction, unless you are doing so as a point relating to a theme in the story, it's generally a sign of good writing that you treat things that don't fall under the unique, internal logic of your universe realistically and do research on them before writing anything about them. So, for example, if you're writing super hero fiction, the unique, internal logic of your story is that people can have super powers for whatever reason that falls under said internal logic. Nuclear explosion, and their mechanics, don't fall under that internal logic, and as such I, and others, consider it lazy to have a nuclear explosion work however the **** you want it to work instead of doing research and trying to make your story work reasonably. Otherwise, you're straying dangerously close to Deus Ex Machina territory, or in other words, you're getting into the habit of pulling things out of your ass to move the story along when you write yourself into a corner. Now, I don't hate heroes because of this, but I'm just saying that it's not hypocritical.

And I'm not trying to forbid anyone from standing up to his comments. I'm saying that there's no point in standing up to his comments. He committed no atrocity. He simply said what he thought about a TV show when openly asked a question. There was no harm done.

 

[chaseter]

Yes because biological explosions act the same way as nuclear explosions. I am glad Alan Moore is an expert on biological explosions. He alone is pioneering the field of biological explosions. Now...if only Richard Nixon can get a hold of the psychic giant squid bombs then we can get rid of those awful air bursts and finally win the Cold War or use a machine that can teleport things and put a human in it. Some people hold Moore up so high on a pedestal that they forget he is a crazy old man that uses drugs and lives alone.

 

[The Question]

Yes because biological explosions act the same way as nuclear explosions. I am glad Alan Moore is an expert on biological explosions. He alone is pioneering the field of biological explosions. Now...if only Richard Nixon can get a hold of the psychic giant squid bombs then we can get rid of those awful air bursts and finally win the Cold War or use a machine that can teleport things and put a human in it. Some people hold Moore up so high on a pedestal that they forget he is a crazy old man that uses drugs and lives alone.

Again, the space squid falls under the internal logic of Moore's universe. And the explosion in Heroes was a nuclear explosion. It just came from an organic bomb.

I'm not holding Moore up on a pedestal. I'm saying that there's no point in getting upset over the fact that he doesn't like a TV show that you do. That's deifying him more than anything I'm doing, as it's turning his opinion of a TV show into something drastically important.

And, I ask, what does drug use and his living arrangements have to do with anything? And I might add that the second part isn't true. He's married.

 

[chaseter]

I don't care what Alan Moore likes...I care that he gives a funk reason for it. He questioned Lost...he should put down

 

[neemer5]

It's not hypocrisy. There are is a school of thought, which includes myself and it seems Alan Moore, that believes that when writing fiction, unless you are doing so as a point relating to a theme in the story, it's generally a sign of good writing that you treat things that don't fall under the unique, internal logic of your universe realistically and do research on them before writing anything about them.

And therein lies the hypocrisy of Moore. See, outside the internal logic of his fictional worlds, there have been numerous examples of times where he has also failed in this regard.

 

[xwolverine2]

"I saw the last episode of Season One where the flying superhero [Peter Petrelli] and his brother, the exploding superhero [Nathan Petrelli], have a little moment and a bit of a hug and then the flying guy takes the exploding guy up into the atmosphere above New York where he undergoes a nuclear explosion to the great relief of all the spectators. You know, again, it wouldn't have taken much. All you'd have had to do, as I understand it, and I speak as somebody who doesn't actually have an Internet connection and has very little idea what an Internet connection is, but I understand there is this thing called 'Google' and that apparently you just have to put a couple of words into it and magically it will provide all your reference for you. You don't even have to get up out of your seat. If you'd have just put, 'nuclear explosion,' say, into Google then I'm sure that somewhere in that it would have explained that an air burst is much, much, much, much, much, much worse than a ground burst. I hope that if that unlikely situation should ever come about, I hope that the superpowered beings who will presumably be around to save us from it are perhaps a bit more intelligent, otherwise we're doomed. So no, I'm not a big fan of 'Heroes,' got to say."
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/012809alanmooretv.html

wat a fool

 

[Johann Krauss]

^...that's not annoying...nope...not at all...

 

[bullets]

Alan Moore has very little idea what an internet connection is yet describes google in flawless detail. He is always trying to play it cool and I find that annoying.

 

[ragdus]

I like Fruity Pebbles despite knowing that pebbles do not, in fact, taste like fruit.

HAMMER MY LOGIC!