i used to do this...
on my other blog, but since i stopped posting there...i'm going to do this every once and a while here. i know it's not related to the art of the single speed, but oh well. i enjoy reading up on, and understand superheroes. so i often get a kick in putting up these heroes, and information about them on my blog. so i hope you enjoy.
here we have uatu the watcher. he is a member of the marvel universe, and is an 'observer', he is an observer of earth's solar system. he adheres to his race's vow of non-interference. to not intervene in the matters of earth. so he sits in his base; which is located in the 'blue area' of earth's moon; which is an area on the moon a few miles wide with an earth-normal atmosphere (got it?). he possesses vast psionic abilities. these include telepathy, energy-manipulation, and illusion casting. he also possesses vast intelligence that allows him to 'monitor' the solar system. the only way he is able to die is to lose the will to live. nice.
o.k., so here we have what appears to be a pretty powerful guy. vast powers. immortal.
so what does he do? nothing. he observes. that's it. he, by his race's vow, is unable to interfere with the affirs of earth. though, often he has, and has been reprimanded for it. the lost of powers, his expulsion from the watchers. however he has regained his statues in the watchers.
he's a funny character. it seems that there is an amoral attitude with the watchers. it goes against the whole 'with great power, comes great responsibility' thing. here is someone that has great power, but does nothing with it; unless the 'fabric of reality' is in jeopardy.
here we have uatu the watcher. he is a member of the marvel universe, and is an 'observer', he is an observer of earth's solar system. he adheres to his race's vow of non-interference. to not intervene in the matters of earth. so he sits in his base; which is located in the 'blue area' of earth's moon; which is an area on the moon a few miles wide with an earth-normal atmosphere (got it?). he possesses vast psionic abilities. these include telepathy, energy-manipulation, and illusion casting. he also possesses vast intelligence that allows him to 'monitor' the solar system. the only way he is able to die is to lose the will to live. nice.
o.k., so here we have what appears to be a pretty powerful guy. vast powers. immortal.
so what does he do? nothing. he observes. that's it. he, by his race's vow, is unable to interfere with the affirs of earth. though, often he has, and has been reprimanded for it. the lost of powers, his expulsion from the watchers. however he has regained his statues in the watchers.
he's a funny character. it seems that there is an amoral attitude with the watchers. it goes against the whole 'with great power, comes great responsibility' thing. here is someone that has great power, but does nothing with it; unless the 'fabric of reality' is in jeopardy.
Labels: superheroes
posted by hamad at
Thursday, November 30, 2006
5 Comments:
Isn't observing doing something? Esp. from a philospohical or quantum physical point of view?
sure. observation is 'doing' something, but isn't there a 'moral responsiblity' to interact or even help if there is trouble, or destruction with what you are observing? like if i saw a woman getting raped, and i had the ability to help shouldn't i, or just observe? if it is in my power to help, then i should. it just seems like uatu takes an amoral view of things.
Can you hold an member of an alien race to human morality? And when interacting with an less advanced race is it moral to interfere with the natural development of that race? Uatu has interfered with Earth and people in a bunch of times and had been called onto the carpet by the rest of the Watchers. Uatu likes humanity, he helps/saves/interferes out of sentiment. And from the point of view of his own kind he may be flawed emotionally, intellectually, or morally.
sure, why not? don't we as people anthropomorphise everything anyway?
and if he is flawed, then why is he still 'watching' us? shouldn't the watchers kicked him out by now?
I love having serious discussions about fictional characters.
The Watchers do "punish" Uatu. They take away his powers, they lock him up, but I guess he's the only one who wants the job... Watching Earth could be the Watcher equivalent of an artic research station. Or maybe a war zone.
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