- Welcome to Tales from the Comments,
my name is Scott and I hope you guys had a great weekend.
If you're in the United States and celebrated Thanksgiving
last week I hope that was good to you.
I know I had fun eating lots of delicious food.
But now, let's talk about some of your guys' comments
on last weeks Aquaman video.
So, overwhelmingly, no surprise,
the number one comment on last week's video
was about my stance regarding Aquaman's ability
to talk to fish.
I say that he does not talk to fish but he commands them,
a lot of you guys just straight up wrote that I was wrong
and that he does talk to fish.
Kyle Sousa and Moby himself actually wrote
interesting comments saying that commanding them
is talking to them.
Right?
Like there's no difference there,
commanding is a form of talking.
Before we get into this I just wanted to say
that this is an entire episode all in itself.
And I meant that 100% literally because it is on
next years schedule for a future Comic Misconceptions
so we will be doing a full video about this
but I just wanted to get my views about this topic
out of the way right now, just to clear some stuff up.
I see a distinction between commanding and talking.
I use this example of my dog,
if I tell my dog to sit, I'm not talking to her.
We're not having a conversation.
I'm just commanding her to sit
and I think there's that distinction there.
But there's a slight difference with Aquaman
in the fact that his powers are telepathic.
He's not verbally speaking to them.
There are instances where it shows
that he's verbally speaking to them
but I always interpret those to be like a visual shorthand
for us readers.
He might be talking aloud but the fish aren't
hearing it and then instantly interpreting
the English language to understand what he wants them to do.
It's more, just like a way for us readers to understand
alright, this is what he's commanding them
but it's not literally what's happening.
It's the same thing I talked about with the
Daredevil video that we did.
About how Daredevil's radar sense is portrayed in a way
that's easy for us to understand but not necessarily
accurate for how Daredevil actually interprets the world.
So those are just some thoughts about the subject.
Again this is an entirely separate video,
all in itself that I will do in the future,
so look forward to that.
I'm going to hold my ground in the mean time
I still think Aquaman does not talk to fish,
he commands them.
As he himself wrote, in the comments of last weeks video.
Deepak Shetty and a few others brought up the
Throne of Atlantis animated movie which shows
at the beginning very explicitly Aquaman talking to
a lobster
I'm just going to go ahead and say I don't like this movie
we talked about it before, we did a whole podcast about it.
We actually got a copyright strike
for talking about this movie.
So it's just, it's been just a disappointment
on all sorts of fronts.
But, yeah, I don't like this interpretation of Aquaman.
I think they got the character completely wrong
so yeah, I don't, doesn't count in my head.
I pick and choose my canon.
Moving completely off of that subject
and onto something else,
Mambo Lito brings up an interesting point
about how Orm in Swedish means snake.
You'll remember from the Justice League animated series
Orm is Aquaman's brother who trapped him
on a rock with his infant child and was basically
responsible for Aquaman cutting off his arm.
Indirectly but it still counts.
And the fact that his name means snake is something
that's really, really interesting and actually could be
the topic of a future Alter Ego video.
So, thanks for that.
Speaking of that Justice League cartoon,
it seems like a lot of you guys prefer that as the
story of choice for how Aquaman lost his arm.
I would have to say, yeah, I kind of agree with this
because in the cartoon it meant something, right?
He sacrificed a part of himself to save his son
and also the world as a whole by stopping Orm at the end.
But, in the comics, it just, it just felt like a tag
at the end of story that had nothing to do
with the story itself and the writers just did it
for the sake of doing it.
Yeah, I don't know, not a fan of that.
The cartoon wins for this one for me, too.
And speaking of cartoons, I included that Justice League one
because I knew that a lot of people would bring it up
if I didn't mention it, but
ridleysaria brings up a cartoon that I did miss
which is the Flashpoint Paradox, where Aquaman loses
yet again his arm in a completely different way.
I actually think it's his other arm,
it might be his right arm instead of his left one.
Yeah, I'm always going to miss something from a cartoon
I just, gotta work on that.
You know, Framemaster, I think you're on to something,
there could be a story there.
Though after that whole experience
he might need to see a doctor of some kind.
That will be it for this week, guys.
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and leaving some fantastic comments.
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