If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
And while we’re at it...
What the hell is up with Donna’s whole speech about Troy. It doesn’t feel like it has anything to do with anything, PLUS it’s prett well known that the Olympian gods are real and so are the legends. Achilles, Hector and all the rest actually existed.
So what’s to Speculate about?
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
I wouldn't call Lois in her underwear in Batman #37 "posing". She had a good reason for being in her underwear (switching clothes with Catwoman, just as Superman did with Batman) and was in a pose where she examined Catwoman's costume and how it would fit her. It was showing her in a domestic and everyday scene.
In the second issue of this series, King had Harley utterly humiliate the entire Trinity. Even the almighty Batgod was not granted his customary immunity from such things.
That one scene told us everything we needed to know about what kind of story we were getting. Welcome to Identity Crisis 2.0. Or Cry for Justice 2.0.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson--
I didn't know a lot about the power of the Lasso.
In Heroes in Crisis 4, the lasso seems to have the ability to make a person tell the truth. However, the mind of Booster Gold is chaotic, so his truth is unreliable.
Would the Lasso of Truth work different in the past?
Preview released
Whatever other flaws this thing has, I think that's the most interesting page Donna has had in eons.
The double date story also had some fanservice with Clark, Bruce and Selina. Bruce even did a bending over pose. Equal opportunity fanservice is fine provided it's drawn well.
Diana's ass cheek...that doesn't sound so great, yeah.
Maybe it's all style and no substance, but compared to all the other crap that has been written with her in recent years, as a single page at least it has style. Nothing meaningful has been said about her in years, they've just been screwing around with her origins over and over again.
It's a nice meta commentary that Donna should just exist and be simple enough to build stories around, but they can never manage it and continue to over complicate things.
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
If they aren't, they ought to be
This page makes me disappointed in how the rest of the story seems to be panning out (I'm avoiding it until it's in trade). HiC will ultimately sink or swim based on how permanent the deaths of Wally, Roy and Ivy are/if they even happened, but stuff like the Trinity jobbing to Harley is just lazy writing. If we were to get King on his A-game, I'd be fine him tackling Donna along with the rest of the Titans. But we never know what we will get. He's simultaneously one of the best Dick Grayson writers ever and the one who shot him in the damn head...conflicted feelings on him a go-go.
Its a metaphor on her own confusing history. Troy exists as a historical site, they found it, but are any of the stories about it true? Or are they all just made up, or the result of crossed wires? Likewise Donna Troy exists, but are any of her origins/history true? Are they all wrong and if so what the hell is her origin and history?
At least that's what I read it as meaning. If that's it I'd actually find it the first clever piece of dialogue in the entire series to date, and only then if its an indicator they'll actually fix it, and not a sign that they think this is enduring to her character. Because its not, its quite sad that she has no history that makes sense past one run to the next.
Last edited by Sacred Knight; 01-01-2019 at 05:49 PM.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El