![]() ![]() But he’s gotta be using some abilities-some-would-consider-unnatural to keep the pipes working. So imagine him on top of you when he’s four years older than this: According to my calculations it’s about four years after the founding of the Empire. ![]() With that in mind, here is the first SPOILER thing we need to address: how is Palpatine out there fucking? I’m trying to do the math here of when he would’ve had to conceive Rey’s dad. So, you know, if you haven’t seen it yet, you surely can picture that type of movie, but also you shouldn’t read this review because it’s ALL SPOILERS and also you won’t know what the fuck I’m talking about. To audiences, however, it's almost the norm.STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER is the kind of thing that happens when a singular voice creates a revolutionary trilogy that changes movies forever and becomes a cultural phenomenon beloved by generations and then years later makes a trilogy of prequels to said movies that are also a cultural phenomenon and also change movies forever in a different way but are disdained by many and after a while he gets so sick of fuckin hearing about it that he sells off his entire life’s work for nearly five billion dollars and gives most of it to charity while a giant entertainment conglomerate treats his creation as an all-consuming brand centered around a third trilogy that ends the saga but is made by three different directors with no plan for where the fuck it’s going and the first guy does a good workmanlike job, then the second knocks it out of the park with a soulful and distinct followup that severely pisses off a small faction of people we only know about because of the internet and then the third guy gets fired so the first guy has to come back and figure out how the fuck to conclude a story he designed for some other poor sucker to have to deal with and also find an ending to the larger cultural phenomenon he’s been mimicking and for some reason he feels the need to alienate the people who like the movies by pandering to the people who didn’t. ![]() For many writers, the concept of Superman gone rogue seems original and fresh. Perhaps it's because comics took a more cynical view on Superman's "Truth, Justice and the American Way" motto post-9/11. The Boys, by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, began in October 2006 Invincible, by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, in January 2003 and Superman: Red Son, by Mark Millar and Dave Johnson, only a month later. So has this idea been played out? Or are there more evil Supermen on the horizon?Īlthough not every morally corrupt pastiche of the Last Son of Krypton is a recent creation (Marvel's Hyperion debuted in 1969), the vast majority emerged in the early 2000s. Even DC itself has gotten in on the action, with both Superman: Red Son and the Injustice video game series. It seems that, no matter where you look, there is some sort of twisted version of the Man of Steel, whether it's The Boys' Homelander, Invincible's Omni-Man or the kid from Brightburn. The "Evil Superman" concept is virtually everywhere in entertainment. ![]()
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