Spiderman II

[buggery]

There's no more need to cut this for spoilers than there is for length.

I saw Spidey last Saturday night. I enjoyed it.

One thing keeps bothering me. It's the thing that made me hiss at the screen during the showing (and if the guy who was sitting in front of us is reading this, sorry, mate).

Doctor Octavius's dream is to create a source of endless, clean energy, energy so cheap to produce it could be given away. Yet in listing his scientific heroes, the world-changing, ground-breaking innovators of their day, along with (of course) Edison he names Marconi and credits him with the invention of the radio.

That was Nikola Tesla, damnit. Marconi stole the credit. And Tesla's dream was... to produce clean, plentiful energy so cheaply there would be no sense in charging for it. There's no way a scientist of Doc Ock's calibre oughtn't to have known that.

Five days later, this still bugs me.

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Also, everyone needs to read The Wrath-Bearing Tree by dien, if the recs in liviapenn's or unanon's LJs haven't led them to it already. Poor Doc Ock. He needs to be hugged a lot, and not by those four metal arms.

Comments

[thete1.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I'll have to think about it. Normally quite a bit, but quite a few people in my generation *do* know that -- mostly do to a hard rock band from the 80s-90s that championed Tesla's cause. ;-)

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Sure, most people have heard of Tesla-the-band... but unless they went out and bought the albums and read the liner notes, or caught just the right interviews, they wouldn't necessarily know that the band chose the name to honour Nikola. I never realised it was anything more than a coincidence until you prompted me to do a little research -- and I went through a hard-rock-fan period in the mid-to-late 80s, but still managed to miss the Tesla connection.

My Tesla-love (like many good things) can be traced back to Spider Robinson.

[thete1.livejournal.com]

Oh, good point. I was introduced to the band through a college radio station full of adorably geeky types, so...

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Great, now I'm going to go insane worrying about that. Thanks a lot ;).

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Eh, sanity's overrated.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

But I need sanity to pay taxes, because if I don't I'll go to prison!

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Well, think about it this way. Obviously science in the Marvel movieverse is different than our own science. So possibly, in this alternate universe, Marconi *actually did* invent the radio. Or he was just sneakier about stealing the secret from Tesla, and no one ever found out. Thus changing the course of science forever!

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Stop making my head hurt!

[dien.livejournal.com]

You recced me! I live in glee. *lives in glee*

....soo. I see someone's a DC fan. *grins conspiratorially*

[minotaurs.livejournal.com]

There's also the bit where the "cheap" energy needs the rarest element on the planet to get started... so rare that there's "only 25 pounds of it in the entire world". DNC.

[naturalbreath.livejournal.com]

It took me a few hours to get up the nerve get around to this, but it was suggested you might be willing to look over one of my fics and tell me what I need to change, or just research more, for the DCU.

I'm feeling my way into the fandom and it's a slow process, but I'm getting all inspired by all the *amazing* work I've found already, and I really don't want to do an injustice to the characters, but I can't not write...

Wow. Um. That was a kind of long-winded way of me asking if you would mind betaing a fic of mine, if you can't translate nervous-babble.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I'm still playing AIM-tag with you -- don't give up. I'd tell you my schedule if I, you know, HAD one.

[naturalbreath.livejournal.com]

hee! Thanks for the update. Odds are that we have to be on the same time eventually, right? ::grin::

OT.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Found a HL/Samurai Jack crossover. Thought you'd be interested. Am only in middle, but so far, funny.
http://www.taterville.com/hellhath.htm

Re: OT.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

"It's so rare that I can enjoy someone else's flashback," Duncan said.

I'm just getting into it, but clearly, BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Thanks for the link, chum.