The Flintstones
DC’sFlintstonescomic is a shockingly dingy adaptation of the source material - and perhaps even more shocking is the fact that the ending result is amazingly good . Expectations are scurvy ( or perhaps nonexistent ) whenevera funny adaptation of an old propertyis unloose . But the 2016Flintstonescomic has acquired a repute on the net for being a horrifically dark , bleak and modern take on the modernistic Stone - Age kinsfolk , complete with such national like PTSD , pay theft , religion and even genocide .
The Flintstones was not lovingly receive when it debuted in 1960 , but it was nevertheless one of the first primetime animated series in America . Fred Flintstone became an ikon of middle Americaand the series was one of the first to show a marital duo sharing a bed , something not done at the sentence . While not as viable over time as other franchise such as Scooby - Doo and Captain Planet , the Flintstones nevertheless gain a reputation as a popular , albeit lighthearted , family TV show . The DC Comics adjustment does away with most of the levity in favor of a darker , naturalistic approach path .
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Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble are veterans of a flaming warfare in which the happy - go - lucky character on TV participated in a genocide . A soldier in Fred ’s unitis suffering from PTSDand even call a felo-de-se hotline ( and is put on hold ) . Flintstone ’s chief exploits the local Neanderthal universe for cheap trade union movement , and constantly overwork and underpay his employees . Fred ’s marriage to Wilma ( itself seen as a new development in beau monde , and is look down upon ) is pregnant with doubt ; though the two are in a love human relationship , Fred often wonders if he can provide for her . In an eye - opening monologue ( that no one anticipate to be delivered byFred Flintstone , of all hoi polloi ) , Fred wonders if wedlock is simply a laud insurance insurance . “Is it just my attempt to keep her from find someone better ? Is matrimony really a sacred bond , or just the deception of security ? "
Meanwhile , the proto - priests of Bedrock are constantly reinvent the thought of religion : they tell citizens to pray to animals and eventually decide to pray to an invisible God alternatively ( whom they spontaneously call " Gerald " ) . Rampant consumerism is call for over society and Fred feels pressure to buy appliances he does n’t involve . rightful to the source stuff , those gismo take the form of animals- but unlike the show , these animals reprobate the society that uses them and locks them away , draw a blank they even exist .
The intact serial is hugely glowering , sardonic , cynical - and despite everything , has plenty of core . Fred and his family live subsist much like our own , despite existing in the Stone Age . TheFlintstonescomic is beloved across the Internet for this cause - even if it paints a sixties folk in a tremendously coloured light .
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