Interesting Links for 10-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• Why I Pirate - An Open Letter To Content Creators
  (tags: copyright piracy content media business thefuture )
• Can 'financial repression' solve the debt crisis?
  I do sometimes think that inflating our way out of debt is the only response that's going to work in the long term. It's not going to be any fun though. And much harder for countries in the Euro.
  (tags: euro debt finance )
• Why we should be hoping that Greece defaults today
  (tags: greece debt insurance money )
• Ofcom lodges porn TV complaint with Dutch regulator
  (tags: porn tv uk europe censorship children )
• Religious TV host Pat Robertson wants pot legalised
  (tags: religion usa marijuana legalisation )
• 10 Things You Should Know about Comics.
  (tags: comics funny )
• Playing chess in short skirts is now forbidden!
  (tags: chess women clothing )
• The Wolves, the Pig, and the Retarded Bunny
  (tags: society offensive language )
• The NHS Bill will remove the obligation to provide free treatment and allow charging for health services
  (tags: politics uk nhs )
• There was, apparently, an R-rated cut of Galaxy Quest
  (tags: scifi movies )

Comments

[doubtingmichael.livejournal.com]

My opinion was that Fear Itself wasn't terrible, and it had a few nice touches. But it was all a bit blah. I really wish comics would stay away from "Everyone on Earth will die!" villains, because I know what's going to happen in advance - they lose. (Sorry, spoiler!) Threaten one person - particularly someone who isn't the title character - and I'll care a lot more.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

It was the number of one and two star reviews on the collected edition on Amazon that prompted this comment... not to mention comments from people whose opinions I value.

This all reminds me of an old Peter David comment about the number of letters he used to receive that said, basically, "Please have Hulk fight Rhino again," and his response that, "No. Hulk will just whup Rhino again and I'm not interested in writing that."

The problem seems to be that there has to be a balance between whst writers want to write and what the readers want to read(particularly as the readers don't all want the same thing.)