Post by stargazer1682 on Mar 13, 2018 2:05:22 GMT
.... [Sigh]
Why do time travel shows have to mess with Elvis?
I love Quantum Leap, but I didn't think anything could have been worse than their take on the start to Elvis' career. At least Quantum Leap used actual Elvis songs (that were associated with Elvis, and still under copyright) rather than some knockoff or public domain song.
Don't get me wrong, Amazing Grace is fine, and the real Elvis did a great rendition of it, but come on - Elvis went to Sun Records under the pretense of recording a record for his mom; and the first of his songs played on the radio was That's Alright. It took me all of five minutes to find that he got his first guitar as a kid, and spent years learning to play. It's bugged the crap out of me for literally decades how much a far superior time travel show screwed up real history; and this one is effectively saying that this isn't even a change of anything. It didn't register as an aberration, no one planted the totem to screw up Elvis' future. It doesn't even make sense that anything would change, because what precipitated it if it wasn't an aberration?
And it is so dumb to suggest that rock and roll wouldn't have happened without Elvis. Who knows how things may have played out, but there were other artists out there playing the same general sound. Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry are just two off the top of my head. Never mind the fact that Elvis didn't write his own music, so it's not like the songs or the genre wouldn't have been invented without him. Yes, he put his stamp on it, using his talent, and helped popularize it, but the style existed long before him, and rock quickly evolved into something else entirely; and so did Elvis. As his career went on he began to favor ballads and less rock. He was content sing gospel music and if I recall correctly, prior to his death he was considering something of a gradual segue towards country, or at least more R&B/Bluegrass.
The funny thing about doing a story about someone famous being removed from history, and the impact it makes, is when you consider Superman, and consider the implications of the CW-DC universe, or really any other iteration of these characters, all tend to live in their own reality where Superman did not exist in 1933. That 85 years of history and cultural impact are completely erased. Even the term "superhero" invariably has some sort of tie to Superman, at least through its popularization. But what other changes in a world where Superman is real, but doesn't appear until sometime in the 1970s, or '90s, or the aughts? There's no reason for any kid to fasten a towel around their neck and pretend to fly. If there's no Superman, there's probably no Batman or other major, conventional comics; especially if some of them are real in that would. Pop culture is radically altered.
Why do time travel shows have to mess with Elvis?
I love Quantum Leap, but I didn't think anything could have been worse than their take on the start to Elvis' career. At least Quantum Leap used actual Elvis songs (that were associated with Elvis, and still under copyright) rather than some knockoff or public domain song.
Don't get me wrong, Amazing Grace is fine, and the real Elvis did a great rendition of it, but come on - Elvis went to Sun Records under the pretense of recording a record for his mom; and the first of his songs played on the radio was That's Alright. It took me all of five minutes to find that he got his first guitar as a kid, and spent years learning to play. It's bugged the crap out of me for literally decades how much a far superior time travel show screwed up real history; and this one is effectively saying that this isn't even a change of anything. It didn't register as an aberration, no one planted the totem to screw up Elvis' future. It doesn't even make sense that anything would change, because what precipitated it if it wasn't an aberration?
And it is so dumb to suggest that rock and roll wouldn't have happened without Elvis. Who knows how things may have played out, but there were other artists out there playing the same general sound. Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry are just two off the top of my head. Never mind the fact that Elvis didn't write his own music, so it's not like the songs or the genre wouldn't have been invented without him. Yes, he put his stamp on it, using his talent, and helped popularize it, but the style existed long before him, and rock quickly evolved into something else entirely; and so did Elvis. As his career went on he began to favor ballads and less rock. He was content sing gospel music and if I recall correctly, prior to his death he was considering something of a gradual segue towards country, or at least more R&B/Bluegrass.
The funny thing about doing a story about someone famous being removed from history, and the impact it makes, is when you consider Superman, and consider the implications of the CW-DC universe, or really any other iteration of these characters, all tend to live in their own reality where Superman did not exist in 1933. That 85 years of history and cultural impact are completely erased. Even the term "superhero" invariably has some sort of tie to Superman, at least through its popularization. But what other changes in a world where Superman is real, but doesn't appear until sometime in the 1970s, or '90s, or the aughts? There's no reason for any kid to fasten a towel around their neck and pretend to fly. If there's no Superman, there's probably no Batman or other major, conventional comics; especially if some of them are real in that would. Pop culture is radically altered.
