Re: Elves: *Cinematic* Soviet Analogy

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 02:43:11 +0100 (BST)

James Frusetta on me on Elves:
> >Certainly an evil communist empire: but a rather too successful one
> >(at least internally) to be a good Soviet Analogue(TM).
> No, not the Soviets as they were: the Soviets as they *should* have
> been, if the American cinema of the 1950s had had its way.

OK, that works. I maintain that Swanwick's Martians had a more appealing Heroic Nobility to them, though... Zap that Socialist-  art straight into the cortex, man...

> Which means that the Uz, of course, are the hard-fightin', hard-livin'
> defenders of ultra-individualism and capitalism, of course.

Not quite the right part of the Republican Caucus, I'd have said: more like a Family Values Hell-on-Wheels type of ticket...

> Now, if I could only get this idea introduced into the Republican Party
> platform for 2000, I could create tens of millions of potential uz
> players in the US, skyrocket HW sales and *really* distort the hell out
> of the Hero Wars player demographics. Hoo-rah!

I didn't think Fem-Dom stuff had quite the same legs in the US as sadly, it has in Britain. But Mrs. T, the Nanny Syndrome, and the Smack of Firm Government is far too psychically disturbing for this hour (or most others), so I'll just quietly boggle at the prospect.

Cheers,
Alex.

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