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Superman was my first favourite superhero, probably the first one I was aware of. I remember watching the original 1970s movie as a child and falling head over heels in love with Clark Kent. This love was further cemented in my teens with Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
It made me want to be a journalist for a very long time - right up to the point where I did my work experience at a local newspaper but was treated so terribly by them that it put me completely off the idea, but I digress.
Then there was Smallville, and there was Superman Returns. And now there's Man Of Steel, the DC Extended Universe and there's all the DC TV series and Superman & Lois. Honestly, sometimes the amount of unconnected concurrent DC media happening confuses me entirely and I think that's the one reason in the general scheme of things I would class myself as a Marvel girl over a DC girl, even though Superman will always be my favourite.
And I'm starting to think this blogging thing may be tougher than I thought because it's much harder to reign in my trains of thought when I'm writing. I keep finding myself going off on tangents or changing thoughts in the middle of a sentence. I also haven't planned out what I was thinking of writing so maybe I need to do that. This paragraph is a shining example of the point it's making!
So yes. I'd class myself as a Marvel girl over a DC girl, based purely on the fact that all the TV shows and movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are connected and interwoven into being one universe - whereas there's so much unrelated DC content. Do we really need another Batman reboot that's happening at the same time as the DCEU movies? I'm not a comic book reader though so my preferences are purely on the live-action series and movies.
But I've never met a Clark Kent I didn't fall instantly in love with. Christopher Reeve, as my original, will always have a special place in my heart. Tom Welling's Clark makes my heart flutter which then makes me feel like a dirty old woman! But, OH! if there isn't something about Henry Cavill!
I sometimes wonder if Superman is my favourite because he fits my physical 'type' preference (my boyfriend Harry fits the same mould) or has that physical preference been influenced by my love of Superman?!
It made me want to be a journalist for a very long time - right up to the point where I did my work experience at a local newspaper but was treated so terribly by them that it put me completely off the idea, but I digress.
Then there was Smallville, and there was Superman Returns. And now there's Man Of Steel, the DC Extended Universe and there's all the DC TV series and Superman & Lois. Honestly, sometimes the amount of unconnected concurrent DC media happening confuses me entirely and I think that's the one reason in the general scheme of things I would class myself as a Marvel girl over a DC girl, even though Superman will always be my favourite.
And I'm starting to think this blogging thing may be tougher than I thought because it's much harder to reign in my trains of thought when I'm writing. I keep finding myself going off on tangents or changing thoughts in the middle of a sentence. I also haven't planned out what I was thinking of writing so maybe I need to do that. This paragraph is a shining example of the point it's making!
So yes. I'd class myself as a Marvel girl over a DC girl, based purely on the fact that all the TV shows and movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are connected and interwoven into being one universe - whereas there's so much unrelated DC content. Do we really need another Batman reboot that's happening at the same time as the DCEU movies? I'm not a comic book reader though so my preferences are purely on the live-action series and movies.
But I've never met a Clark Kent I didn't fall instantly in love with. Christopher Reeve, as my original, will always have a special place in my heart. Tom Welling's Clark makes my heart flutter which then makes me feel like a dirty old woman! But, OH! if there isn't something about Henry Cavill!
I sometimes wonder if Superman is my favourite because he fits my physical 'type' preference (my boyfriend Harry fits the same mould) or has that physical preference been influenced by my love of Superman?!
