Quote Originally Posted by Ambaryerno View Post
Also, it's not so much a spoof as Taylor simply breaking the string of one dystopian future after another and actually doing something DIFFERENT.
Pretty much this. Taylor himself said in an interview promoting this arc that he was sick of dystopian futures because all that implied was that the heroes' efforts in the present ultimately made no difference and at best did nothing at all to improve the world, or at worst contributed to the world becoming (more of) a s***hole. He wanted to break that cycle and show that heroes could actually make a positive difference in the world and improve the future state of things.