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So here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>\u00a0are stories about Comic-con. \u00a0Really? \u00a0I admit I\u2019m not big fantasy\/comic\/sci-fi fan. \u00a0Not that I don\u2019t enjoy a fantasy book or occasional alien romp here and \u00a0there, but usually it\u2019s not my neighborhood. \u00a0Partly because of those I knew in school way back when who were into those interests. \u00a0Interesting types them. \u00a0And sometimes a bit difficult to get on with. \u00a0And it wasn\u2019t just in the days of moonwalking and parachute pants. \u00a0Back in the heyday of Harry Potter, I noticed that my school age observations were not far off the mark, as Potter fans derided with almost hellish hatred those who failed to see the glories of St. Rowling the Holy Potter. \u00a0Catholics who were fans christened the work the most expansive unpacking of the Paschal mystery since the Apostle John, and derided as spiritually inept and intellectually stunted those who couldn\u2019t see the obvious. \u00a0I mean, you could have denied God or urinated on a crucifix and received less of a thrashing than suggesting Potter was anything less than inspired.<\/p>\n

So the whole genre is just not something I\u2019ve ever related to because I\u2019ve never really taken the time to try. \u00a0Now I can\u2019t help but think when it\u2019s become a corporate phenomenon, and that group clearly guides the decisions and planning of studios interests, the products don\u2019t finally represent what most folks want in a movie. \u00a0So perhaps that\u2019s why many of these recent attempts at block busters, all of which seem geared more and more toward this particular demographic, have tanked. \u00a0First, fanboys are a zealous bunch, and will boycott and condemn if things aren\u2019t as they should be. \u00a0But also, a movie made with that particular demographic in mind, a demographic that seems to take pride in shunning most of the surrounding sea of humanity as somehow inferior for not being onboard, might also come up increasingly short in the mass appeal category.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t know. Just a thought. \u00a0 I had a similar one once about the tendency of the Catholic blogosphere to be populated by self-proclaimed geeks<\/a>\u00a0and what it might mean. \u00a0I could be wrong. \u00a0But something in the back of my mind suggests I\u2019m not too wrong if I am. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"