Baresark said:
such as is the case with Maus. It is based on Art Spiegelman's fathers life. But, it strays into a work of artistic fiction when the Jews are depicted as Mice and the Nazi's as cats. If this were not intended, then why did he not just depicted his fathers life with people instead of animals?
At a guess, he thought the idea of starved people being forced to dig their own graves before being covered in quicklime would be upsetting, and it's an analogy rather than a re-telling.
All events based off of any 300 spinoffs/sequels are going to be grounded in that movie/comic universe, and not at all grounded in real time. As it was never intended to be, even in Miller's 300 comic.
But the Universe is undefined. It's only defined as our universe, unless Miller says differently at the time. That makes the entire "300" universe a Mary Sue.
Also, I don't know if you actually know anything at all about writing Fiction,
You could look. There's quite a large amount of evidence to say that I've been writing fiction for decades.
Also, in response to your responses by ChupathingyX, do you take Odysseus as reality? Or do you believe the the aliens from Dr. Who are real?
They are a fictional reality based off of ours. Commonly known as stories. There is no such thing as the Odysseus Universe, and the Whoniverse has been defined strongly due to episodic content.
300 touches on neither of these. Neither does Holy Terror. It just borrows from ours when it feels like it.
In reality, people would love to fly to the rescue of a bunch of miners in South America using their super powers to save them.
You're not going to fly down a mine with ease.
But they can't, so they are offered fantasies where there are beings that can, and they read them because they like to read about a world like that.
Do you actually like fiction? Because you put it across as it's just a crutch for the weak.
None of that defies what is meant by the concept of a fiction "universe".
It does when the definition of the universe is "Whatever seems cool". That's the Universe of Lucas and Bay.
Let's take a relevant example: Clash of the Titans (1981) vs (2010)
Both based in our reality. Both around similar times to 300. Both with fantastical elements in. Both with Kraken, Zeus and Medusa; fictional characters.
Why is '81 much more respected than '10?
Simple. 2010 took the idea of what is "cool" and made the Greeks into Atheists, denying the God's existence.
It took our universe (which can contain fantastical/fictional things - look at Santa Claus and Man-flu) and altered a very fundamental rule, without seeing things through.
'81 CotT knows that the entire story hinges on Heroes versus Gods, in fact Zeus's final message states that.
'10 CotT makes them all disbelieve from the start, thus shattering the battle.
That's because the 2010 version used it's own "Universe". It's not a catchword for franchise or IP. It is the way things relate to each other.
300 doesn't have a Universe of it's own. It just has ours with cool bits dotted in.
As does Miller's Batman, Holy Terror or Sin City. That's why he's a hack. Because the only canon that exists that he can draw on is ours. Unless it's a woman, then she's a whore.
*shakes hands*
