I loved Calvin & Hobbes. I felt very let down when Watterson abandon the comic after only ten years. What a great animation for the silver screen this could have been, but alas, it shall never be so.
jsfury, if you read Watterson's writings on the subject you'll understand why he didn't commercialize it. he certainly didn't "abandon" Calvin and Hobbes (also see his writings for why he didn't want to continue the strip ad nauseum). and sorry you didn't get your big-screen movie with concurrent fast food tie-ins and mass-produced knick knacks, but it was Watterson's creation to do with as he pleased, not yours to bemoan what it "could have been".
I've read everything he's said, and even seen the documentary, and yes he has the only opinion that factors into what happens to Calvin and Hobbes, but that does not make it less troublesome that once we readers have become passionate about our appreciation, that we are less eager to see how wonderful it would be animated. Exactly the opposite, we are wanting more, and that is logical. When we humans are pleased, we realize what made us happy, and simply stop looking for other things that might make us as happy or happier. Now that we know we like this one thing, we stop wasting time on the infinite supply of other possible things to be looked at, and tested, and decided on. We hate wasting time. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, you may recall. Also, Pandora proved that once you open the box, you can NOT put anything back in it. Once Watterson allowed us to enjoy Calvin and Hobbes, he lost the ability to take it away, and make it ONLY his. It's now OURS, and that was how he lost the total control on what gets said about it, and we DO get to bemoan the lack of new Calvin and Hobbes strips, and lack of plush Hobbes, and painting, posters, etc. You do not seem to realize that, but it's true. And you are rude to think you have any positional authority to say to anyone what the can or cannot bemoan. Not only are you rude, you are wrong.
I loved Calvin & Hobbes. I felt very let down when Watterson abandon the comic after only ten years. What a great animation for the silver screen this could have been, but alas, it shall never be so.
ReplyDeletejsfury, if you read Watterson's writings on the subject you'll understand why he didn't commercialize it. he certainly didn't "abandon" Calvin and Hobbes (also see his writings for why he didn't want to continue the strip ad nauseum). and sorry you didn't get your big-screen movie with concurrent fast food tie-ins and mass-produced knick knacks, but it was Watterson's creation to do with as he pleased, not yours to bemoan what it "could have been".
ReplyDeleteI've read everything he's said, and even seen the documentary, and yes he has the only opinion that factors into what happens to Calvin and Hobbes, but that does not make it less troublesome that once we readers have become passionate about our appreciation, that we are less eager to see how wonderful it would be animated. Exactly the opposite, we are wanting more, and that is logical. When we humans are pleased, we realize what made us happy, and simply stop looking for other things that might make us as happy or happier.
DeleteNow that we know we like this one thing, we stop wasting time on the infinite supply of other possible things to be looked at, and tested, and decided on. We hate wasting time.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, you may recall.
Also, Pandora proved that once you open the box, you can NOT put anything back in it. Once Watterson allowed us to enjoy Calvin and Hobbes, he lost the ability to take it away, and make it ONLY his. It's now OURS, and that was how he lost the total control on what gets said about it, and we DO get to bemoan the lack of new Calvin and Hobbes strips, and lack of plush
Hobbes, and painting, posters, etc.
You do not seem to realize that, but it's true. And you are rude to think you have any positional authority to say to anyone what the can or cannot bemoan.
Not only are you rude, you are wrong.