Fandom: In defense of superheroes

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Tom Hiddleston, of all people, has a piece in The Guardian's film blog defending the blockbuster superhero film as art, quoting Harold Pinter and displaying a not-inconsiderable understanding of the western literary tradition:

Superhero movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned

(Headline provided by the blog editor, obviously.) Hiddleston preaches to the choir of my f-list, of course, but the piece is worth reading. (Can you tell this man took a double first in classics from Cambridge? I think I'm in love ...)