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the-desolated-quill

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I preferred the Addams Family when they were just creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky. Now Wednesday is a murderer who drops piranhas in a swimming pool and watches people get eaten. We even get blood. Not fake blood like in the first movie, but actual blood from an actual person screaming in pain because he’s being eaten alive.

Just… why?????

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zenyogi-society

It just sits wrong with me mostly because The Addams Family was an expression of the cultural other. Charles Addams deliberately made the family explicitly mixed race (please everyone look at how he illustrated Grandmama in Mother Goose). The Addams Family represented the complex anxieties around the cultural other in New York during the mid 20th century, especially the wealthy cultural other who were growing in numbers and prominence during that time and were very much perceived as a threat. Much of the modern academia focusing on Addams as a satirist revolves around how white America perceived and feared the powerful, non-conformist other and how Charles Addams satirised that anxiety through his work. 

I like the 60s show the best because (although it obviously whitewashed the characters) it doesn’t shy away from the concept of cultural otherness but it enforces that the family are actually really loving and generous which is the very likely reality of the social group Charles Addams was reflecting in the family. 

Tim Burton casting POC actors for the Addams Family is correct - but for him then to essentially go “actually in my version the family actually are a violent threat” is just?? Especially with Tim Burton’s history of depicting his few non-white characters as bloodthirsty villains. Alright the audience is on Wednesday’s side, but there’s just something not right to me about characterising a non-white girl as so aggressive and vicious especially when the original Charles Addams comics depicted Wednesday as incredibly gentle and shy. Yes Wednesday was just getting revenge for her brother, but it’s so nasty and grotesque whilst obviously being aimed at a young teenage audience that it is just uncomfortable to watch. 

Tim Burton’s just watched the market and realised that Riverdale, Umbrella Academy and Stranger Things are doing well so him and his team has mashed these shows together and cranked out this new Wednesday show without the least thought for the source material. They’re just adapting the Addams Family because a remake always has an existing audience to capitalise on. 

Racist undertones and poor response to Charles Addams’s work aside. John Astin explained the concept of implied violence here (x)  Please also watch this lovely clip of John Astin explaining the morale of the show here (x)

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the-desolated-quill

I mean has Tim Burton ever seen Addams Family Values? You can have Wednesday take revenge without resorting to killing people. In fact it’s much more thrilling and rewarding.

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xaldien

She literally roasted the counselors, and set fire to a young girl, and you think that just because they didn't show it, she didn't kill them?

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themidnightsociety

The counselors might have died but Amanda is seen on a plane at the end of the movie alive.

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rose-nobles

Bonus:

Norma being the #most relatable

A lot of the process focused on Barney, but Norma is the character I’m most proud of for a few reasons. One is that when I wrote the webcomics, I tried to make her “hashtag relatable.” I just thought this was everyone’s experience of life. So many people reached out and said, “Hey, I headcanonned her as autistic!” or “Great representation of anxiety.” I got so many comments like that when we came to write the show, I thought, Norma is autistic.
Another reason I’m so proud is that I had constantly pitched shows of characters like her as the lead, and I always got the note about how female characters need to be more fun and less anxious. “Why is she so annoying? Why is she so this and that?” It always bothered me because I kept seeing these characters come out whose only flaw is that they’re a bit clumsy, but they’re super fun, awesome, great, great, great. I get it, but my experience of childhood and when I think of what it was like to be a kid, I just think of sad, lonely and awkward — and I think you can make a fun show out of that.

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#dead end paranormal park#dead end netflix#netflix
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lasturlontheleft

y'all ever seen women nutcrackers? are you ready for this absolute tomfoolery?

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songsofwaterandnight

Jim I love you but why do you collect these 😭

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jimothysomebody

@songsofwaterandnight It is an addiction that began eons ago when I was a wee child of 10yrs old, it was a cold December’s night and my aunt took me to a store called Deals, which was sorta like the 5 Below of 2002, and it was on that fateful night I saw an especially ragged, janky, small lone nutcracker with a crooked nose, uneven eyes, rat teeth and a missing arm and I thought to myself “This is the most hilariously hideous thing I’ve ever seen in my life and I cannot live without this.” and then I thought he looked lonely and needed friends, and I just never stopped collecting both very nice or comically beat up looking nutcrackers every holiday season, lol.

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themidnightsociety

I saw this one a few years ago. I was strickened by its uglyness and its gay representation crotch.

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guiltyidealist

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themidnightsociety

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