http://kablammo.strongerthandeath.com/2005/12/22/paedophiles-and-videogames/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:08:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://kablammo.strongerthandeath.com/2005/12/22/paedophiles-and-videogames/#comment-640 Laurel Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:20:52 +0000 http://kablammo.strongerthandeath.com/?p=440#comment-640 I agree with you. This is interesting because Ebert is an expert in a medium that, since its inception, has been denigrated (unfairly, for the most part) as as being constitutionally unable to do what books do, inferior to the novel, pandering to the tastes of the masses, incapable of reaching the status of High Art, stripping the viewer of imagination, and on and on and on. He's basically replicating the "films are inferior to books" argument with respect to video games, only painting what has traditionally been seen as the strength of the novel -- a more independent, less author-controlled reading/viewing experience -- as the supposed <b>weakness</b> of this third medium. I agree with you. This is interesting because Ebert is an expert in a medium that, since its inception, has been denigrated (unfairly, for the most part) as as being constitutionally unable to do what books do, inferior to the novel, pandering to the tastes of the masses, incapable of reaching the status of High Art, stripping the viewer of imagination, and on and on and on. He’s basically replicating the “films are inferior to books” argument with respect to video games, only painting what has traditionally been seen as the strength of the novel — a more independent, less author-controlled reading/viewing experience — as the supposed weakness of this third medium.

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