Has anyone noticed the LSH problem, or does no one care about gaping plot holes anymore? SPOILERS

[thetrellan]

Everywhere Booster bounces around, his time travel and/or chronal radiation temporarily give heroes near him their powers back. In addition, he and his friends are able to escape the domes using time travel.

All this is fine, except for the fact that he gets his time travel technology from the the 30th century, and specifically from Brainiac 5! Brainy invented the time sphere, did he not?

So why are not one but two Legions hoplessly trapped behind domes without their powers? Did no one think to escape using a T sphere in the entire year they were all stuck? And if the spheres were disabled by the domes, they why is Booster's group able to use the same tech to move around freely?

Then again, this is just the latest in a mountain of Convergence inconsistencies, I suppose.

[Darth Kal-el]

I think it also involved him gaining cronal energy by skipping around the multiverse

Rip also said time masters could avoid or null the domes which is why they were trapped underground. Booster and his crew are time masters not captured

[thetrellan]

I think it also involved him gaining cronal energy by skipping around the multiverse

Rip also said time masters could avoid or null the domes which is why they were trapped underground. Booster and his crew are time masters not captured

It was the older BG who had built up massive chronal energy. He wasn't around when the Legion used their powers, N52 Booster was.

Rip said Booster's latent chronal energy was probably neutralizing the dome's power squelching effect. But this was said to the New 52 Booster, who has traveled through time once. The Legion did this on a regular basis, and should have tons more chronal energy than BG. If latent chronal energy was behind it, their powers should have remained intact this whole time.

Also, Rip said simply that time travelers were threats, not time masters. That should include the Legion more than those villains from Infinity Inc. Why were they not imprisoned with the others from Skartaris?

And hey, if Rip can figure how to use time travel to escape the domes, how long do you think this should stump Brainiac 5?

[GlennSimpson]

Perhaps it has something to do with chronal energy affecting natives to the dome vs. chronal energy carried for elements foreign to the dome. That is, Brainiac was able to calibrate each dome to its residents.

[thetrellan]

Perhaps it has something to do with chronal energy affecting natives to the dome vs. chronal energy carried for elements foreign to the dome. That is, Brainiac was able to calibrate each dome to its residents.

Give that man a no-prize!

Meh, sounds far-fetched to me. But so does the idea of Brainiac actually being sneaky when he steals a city. Future's End (and in Action Comics a few years ago) had it as a huge, disruptive process that you couldn't possibly miss. Plus, if Brainiac had the ability to neutralize everyone's powers, then why didn't he use it on Superman all those millions of time he (or an aspect thereof) crossed the Big Blue Boy Scout?

The story doesn't really bear up to close scrutiny. But I like your "chronal callibration" hypothesis. It fits the Booster Gold influence pretty well.

[Zero Hunter]

I always just figured Rip Hunter updated Boosters time travel tech so that it was way beyond what he originally used.

[GlennSimpson]

Give that man a no-prize!

Meh, sounds far-fetched to me. But so does the idea of Brainiac actually being sneaky when he steals a city. Future's End (and in Action Comics a few years ago) had it as a huge, disruptive process that you couldn't possibly miss. Plus, if Brainiac had the ability to neutralize everyone's powers, then why didn't he use it on Superman all those millions of time he (or an aspect thereof) crossed the Big Blue Boy Scout?

O.G. Brainiac never passed that bit of tech down to his peeps. Actually, did he even realize he was making little copies all that time?

Or it requires some energy only found on the "Convergence" planet.

[Powerboy]

Everywhere Booster bounces around, his time travel and/or chronal radiation temporarily give heroes near him their powers back. In addition, he and his friends are able to escape the domes using time travel.

All this is fine, except for the fact that he gets his time travel technology from the the 30th century, and specifically from Brainiac 5! Brainy invented the time sphere, did he not?

So why are not one but two Legions hoplessly trapped behind domes without their powers? Did no one think to escape using a T sphere in the entire year they were all stuck? And if the spheres were disabled by the domes, they why is Booster's group able to use the same tech to move around freely?

Then again, this is just the latest in a mountain of Convergence inconsistencies, I suppose.

Yeah. I didn't read all of Convergence but I noticed that, in some cities, advanced technology didn't work at all, such as Cyborg's cybernetic implants not working while, in others, advanced tech worked just fine. In one city, Aquaman lost all his powers. In another, he kept some of them because they were inherent to his species, not super powers. In some cities, the rules of engagement were absolute and no interference. In others, it was a no rules free for all.

I also thought there was a funny line in the Superboy and the Legion one where someone says she's no Lois Lane and he asks who Lois Lane is. It just emphasizes the problems of having this guy from a thousand years in the past running around on your team. "Don't let him read any history. Don't let him talk to anybody." Even for all of that, I go back enough that sometimes, when people start talking about Superboy, it takes me a moment to realize, "Oh, you're talking about Connor Kent. Superboy, for me, is still the adventures of Superman when he was a boy."

[thetrellan]

Yeah. I didn't read all of Convergence but I noticed that, in some cities, advanced technology didn't work at all, such as Cyborg's cybernetic implants not working while, in others, advanced tech worked just fine. In one city, Aquaman lost all his powers. In another, he kept some of them because they were inherent to his species, not super powers. In some cities, the rules of engagement were absolute and no interference. In others, it was a no rules free for all.

I also thought there was a funny line in the Superboy and the Legion one where someone says she's no Lois Lane and he asks who Lois Lane is. It just emphasizes the problems of having this guy from a thousand years in the past running around on your team. "Don't let him read any history. Don't let him talk to anybody." Even for all of that, I go back enough that sometimes, when people start talking about Superboy, it takes me a moment to realize, "Oh, you're talking about Connor Kent. Superboy, for me, is still the adventures of Superman when he was a boy."

Lol. I think you had to really warm up to Connor to really think of him as Superboy. To me he's just that kid who thought he was a man for awhile. Or maybe the one who gave creators the stupid idea of having Superman's costume be just jeans and a T-shirt.

Seriously, why not just make his secret identity be Bruce Springsteen? A pack of smokes tucked up against his deltoid. Yeah, that's the ticket!