Spiderman II
Jul. 8th, 2004 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
buggeryThere'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.
Also, everyone needs to read The Wrath-Bearing Tree by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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.
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Date: 2004-07-08 01:34 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2004-07-17 08:06 am (UTC)