From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V10 #17 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Tuesday, May 10 2011 Volume 10 : Number 017 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena mention in Thor [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 22:43:39 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena mention in Thor On Monday 09 May 2011 11:25:42 you wrote: > In the big new film Thor, Asgardians are from another > planet. They can travel to other worlds and are worshipped > as gods by the Vikings. In the modern world, 4 warriors > from Asgard arrive in a small town in the U.S. Southwest. > One is a woman, one is Asian. (There is also a black > Asgardian. The film is careful to stay away from the Nazi > look of traditional views of Norse gods.) That's not Nazi, just traditional Norse. Just because the Nazis borrowed the Norse gods, that in no wise means that the Norsemen were proto-Nazis (or even particularly xenophobic. Every culture I can think of made their gods in their own image). I just think that comment was a (probably unintended) slur on the original Odin, Thor and company. IIRC, Hercules and Xena both had all-white Norse gods, I don't recall anyone ever suggesting a Nazi connection there. > The government > has surveillance men watching the town, since a whole lot > of stuff has been going on. As the multi-gender/race batch > of Asgardians arrive, the G men nervously report "Base, > we've got Xena, Jackie Chan and Robin Hood here." Xena is rapidly approaching the stage of a popular mythical character in her own right. You know you've arrived when people use your name in a throwaway line. cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V10 #17 **************************************