You're right, it isn't. But the skills, and most importantly the discipline, that it instills can transfer over. That's part of why Kate is still a little irritated with her, because Bette isn't attending for its own sake, but so she can better equipped as a crimefighter.
She's showing it right now, since she wants to emulate Kate and thinks this is the way to do it. Kate was deliberately hard on her because she doesn't want her to be a vigilante if possible.Bette was already getting vigilante training for the same person Kate got hers. Bette is not Kate. When has she ever shown interest in military life.
Again, no it isn't. Bette wants to emulate Kate. This isn't a bad way to do it.Having her copy Kate and go to West Point is incredibly lazy.
You're talking about metafictional stuff. What I'm talking about is what makes sense from an internal perspective in the universe. Bette leaving WP would realistically have major consequences for her on at least two fronts, and ignoring that is bad.And no, not its not hurtle. She's specifically there to be out of the way. A line of dialogue is not a hurtle. They could literally just ignore it and it would have no impact.
Hawkfire wasn't a hurdle either in or out of text; yeah, she was in comic limbo, but she had also stopped being Hawkfire due to serious injury, mere months after recovering from another serious injury.And if Hawkfire wasn't a hurtle for them to send Bette off to West Point, i don't see why West Point, something that hasn't consisted of anything more then a line of throw away dialogue to explain why she isn't around, would be a hurtle if someone wanted to actually do something with her.
And that should have major consequences. Bette would have the person she admires possibly more than anyone else quite reasonably thinking she's a flake, for one.Like i said before, at most all it would take is Bette saying how she's not Kate, and how military life is not for her.
That could be a reasonable direction, but it would absolutely still have hurdles. When I refer to that, I mean consequences. In this case, it means that if Bette leaves WP, she not only has to repay her tuition, she loses credibility and hurts her reputation with her role model.
I mean... you can probably say the same about many cadets who enter the Academy and fulfill their obligation or even go on to have longer military careers.