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Okay, it might be all I can say on this and it's a positive note:
BB: I made that choice very deliberately. Don’t get me wrong - I do like to keep some things off camera or panel if that will serve a particular scene or story. But in this instance, moving this off panel would have alluded that something sexual was going on or something rapey was happening.
Rapey. It's like truthiness, in a way. It almost sounds kind of funny, taking the edge of a horrible topic and making it sound kind of... cute. Rapey! Not rape-ish, rape-esque and rape-like or even 'a serious violation of the character'. No, the scene's just not rapey! I honestly like this new word that Bendis has added to my vocabulary. Thanks, sir.
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October 19th, 2007 - 10:45
I sense a slight bit of sarcasm?
October 20th, 2007 - 03:18
Ahhh … I was trying to stay away from Newsarama through all this because I knew it would p@#$ me off.
October 20th, 2007 - 12:49
Nick: Oh no. I mean it: it’s my new favorite word. Don’t get me wrong, Bendis used it in ignorance and that whole interview was a train wreck anyway, but you have to admit. There’s a certain charm to it.
I think I’m going to use it to describe insults to fandom and characters and whatnot that are honest concerns but that people can froth at the mouth over.
For example! Casting Keith Urban as Bones in the next Star Trek movie? That’s kind of rapey as well as being a shaky choice of casting. See? FUN!
Fortress Keeper: Yeah. It’s a train wreck and not even a fun sort of train wreck with entertaining gore and violence.