History Quotes / Xenafication

->Martha Kent, in the wine cellar, wearing a Black Dahlia costume and packing heat. I had a whole rant prepared about this but really, it's not worth it. You were either okay with this or you weren't. I wasn't. As I mentioned above, I've got no problems with most of the changes they've made to this character over the years; in fact a lot of them added necessary depth to an archetype that had gotten a little dusty. But that's the point; Martha Kent is an archetypal character. She serves a very specific function to the Superman mythos and all of this cloak and dagger, behind the scenes, let's make her edgy by giving her a gun crap is so completely at odds to that purpose that it begs the question; why even use this character?

--> I suspect that most modern viewers find it easier to identify with a Snow White who fights back. Spending years asleep in a glass coffin waiting to be awakend by "TrueLovesKiss" is hopefully not something that girls today aspire to. We can fight for what we want, and we have a good chance of getting it.

->'''Chris:''' Lana wears '''A RADIOACTIVE NECKLACE MADE FROM THE METEOR THAT KILLED HER PARENTS'''. That’s the craziest damn thing that has ever happened on this show.. So you’re saying she took it to a jeweler herself and was like “you know, this might be a horrible deadly meteor that made me an orphan, but it also REALLY goes well with my skin tone. Could you slap that sucker on a gold chain?” Seriously, melting down the thing that killed your family and wearing it as bling is the sort of thing [[BattleTrophy mercenaries]] and [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster gangsta rappers do.]]\\
'''David''': You just made Lana Lang sound 40,000 times more awesome than she ever has before.\\
--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-1-1-pilot/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Pilot")

->'''Chris:''': Lana wears '''A RADIOACTIVE NECKLACE MADE FROM THE METEOR THAT KILLED HER PARENTS'''. That’s the craziest damn thing that has ever happened on this show.. So you’re saying she took it to a jeweler herself and was like “you know, this might be a horrible deadly meteor that made me an orphan, but it also REALLY goes well with my skin tone. Could you slap that sucker on a gold chain?” Seriously, melting down the thing that killed your family and wearing it as bling is the sort of thing [[BattleTrophy mercenaries]] and [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangsta gangsta rappers do.]]\\