Avatar: The Last Airbender, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight and More: The Fiction of the Bush-era

So much fiction of the 2000s seemed eager to comment on the politics of the time. From the War on Terror, to the Patriot Act, we discuss how the politics of the Bush-era were examined through sci-fi and fantasy. 

Notes: 

13:12 - Moore apparently disliked this adaptation, being annoyed that his anarchist messages were dropped and the villain took on a more                    neoconservative flavor. 

13:28 - Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister whose leadership seemed to influence Moore's writing of V for Vendetta. Tony Blair                was the Prime Minister for much of the Bush years and supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq. 

21:40 - Terrorism is generally defined as politically motivated violence which specifically targets non-combatants. Under this definition, the                   Joker would not qualify as he does not seem to be motivated by a political agenda. 

24:04 - "Enhanced interrogation" was a popular euphemism for torture. 

29:40 - There is ongoing debate among historians about slavery in Ancient Greece. It is possible other Greek city-states enslaved Greeks but                there is at least some evidence that it was frowned upon and that the Spartans were more comfortable with the idea. 

31:31 - Side Rant 

Intro and outro music: "Swim below as Leviathans" by Fireproof_Babies (featuring Ben Shewmaker) is licensed under CC BY.