Monday, July 10, 2006

Dissecting Superman

This is even funnier after reading this. Or maybe vice-versa.

Later, it emerged that there was one other city of Krypton that had survived. Years before the planet's explosion, a space criminal named Brainiac used a patented shrink ray on the former capitol city of Kandor. Shrunk to the size of a chess board along with its inhabitants, it was placed inside a bottle suspiciously like those used in water coolers. Years later, Superman liberated Kandor from Brainiac but could not solve the problem of permanently restoring the city and its population to normal size.

But Brainiac wanted that square foot of real estate back. So Superman kept Kandor safe at his fortress of solitude and he and Supergirl would, on occasion, use a temporary shrink ray to enter the bottle city.

This entire situation can be viewed as extremely Jewish. All of a sudden -- like American Jews -- Superman and Supergirl had a small homeland that they felt was dependent on them for its protection from those who held it for a while and wanted to regain it from the original and rightful owners. It was a miraculous, thriving remnant of a once-great culture, and the two could visit ancient archeological sites and the remains of their ancestral homeland, speak their ancestral language, be called by their real (Kryptonian) names, track down distant relatives and friends of their parents and even meet the occasional potential marriage partner of 'a similar background.'

Not unlike a summer program in Israel.


Oh, Aish. Grasping at straws since... what year is it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr. Not Shlita,

I'd like to hear your opinions of the World Cup if are willing. Some ideas: Italy vs. France; Italy beating France; international competition; Germans crying; American apathy; who the heck has heard of Ghana? etc.

Regards.

Anonymous said...

Or alternatively, the implications of wild head-butting antics. Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmbb4zfPXVM