Originally Posted by
Tzigone
This just reminds me how much I miss the silver-age dynamic, where Hal got along great with both his brothers. I miss happy families, stories where the hero's conflict was mostly with villains, rather than their loved ones. Almost no one has good/healthy relationships with all their family members anymore. It's not that I don't like drama, but I don't like formerly good relationships made poor or formerly good characters cast in the role providing a negative influence in the main character's life.
I tend to agree with this, though I'm really in favor of almost none of the heroes having "coincidental" retconned interactions with each other before heroing. I mean, I thought the Superboy issue with Hal on the same plane with Clark was great (fearless Hal was fun) but it's not something I'd ever want in-continuity. Obviously, of course, all bets are off if we have Booster Gold or someone else interfering with the timeline and the meeting isn't coincidental.