Re: What Is This Problem With Mary Jane?

On Jun 18, 3:54 pm, badthin...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Okay, the rumors just don't stop. First there was her dying, then
came divorce rumors, now Bendis has opened the door for a Skrull and
now the upcoming "One More Day" storyline may also see the departure
of Mrs. Mary Jane Watson Paker and I just have to ask why? Why is
Quesada and now Tom Brevoort obsessed with getting rid of her?
Brevoort likened her to having a "clubbed foot" and that it limits the
storytelling. Am I the only person who thinks this sounds
suspiciously like a bunch of teen boys who can't stand that their most
popular buddy has a girlfriend and are plotting to break them up?

I'm sorry, but they all need to GROW THE *** UP and accept this
already! It's been twenty fucking years and Quesada is still that same
annoyed teenager who wants Peter Parker to be more like him. Well,
you're not a lonely fat kid anymore (I hope) and he's not that Peter
Parker any more. You're the head of Marvel and he's a man with a
wife. A beautiful wife, which should feed into the geek fantasy of
getting the girl in the end, not dampen it simply because he can't
have a Catwoman/Batman relationship with The Black Cat. She's the
Lois Lane to his Superman, period. There are no others. Game over.

Instead of bemoaning how she's some type of burden why don't they work
in making her more than the "victim wife." You'd think after that
500th kidnapping and/or near death experience, she'd get proactive
about it. After all, if nothing else, being known as Spider-man's
wife opens it up for her to ask pretty much anyone in the Marvel
Universe for help, from devices from Reed Richards, magical spells
from Dr. Strange or ass-kicking lessons from fellow redhead, The Black
Widow (who will let is slip that she once made out with Peter on the
side of the SHIELD helicarrier, something that Peter forgot to
mention).

If TPTB at Marvel weren't so head up their asses about seeing her as a
burden they'd work on turning her into more of an asset, but that
would require growing up, something that's apparently in short supply.

It's the Soap Opera's dilemma. Couples that cheat are interesting.
Guys chasing Women (and Vice Versa) are interesting.

Happily married couples, not that much. None of the above-written
gameplaying can go on without making one or both of the characters
unlikable.

Also the Geek Fantasy might be BAGGING the hot chick, but not
necessarily MARRYING her, I think. If you did that you couldn't go on
to the NEXT hot chick.

That said, I have to wonder at the folks who think that a marriage
would be drama-deficent. They must really not be paying attention.

I'm a singleton, but even I know better than that. Don't the TPTB know
anybody who is actually married?

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