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.

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[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.