No problem. No one can remember everything. Besides, I don't know about you, but my memory is a mystery: it often amazes me the stuff I remember *and* stuff I forget! :D
That's why I think it's nice to share.
And yes: my corner is pretty comfy. :)
Sure. I understand.
I never hid I'm a fan of the couple, but I didn't want to annoy anyone who isn't. I normally keep all the gushing on that thread for this reason. :)
Jean Grey by Tyler Cairns
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No way!!! Where?!?! Imagine if we know each other?
Ugh, I have ALWAYS hated this particular moment I get why it happened, but it is the epitome of everything wrong with how writer portray male characters and female characters. Jean is exhausting the whole of her telekinetic powers, keeping Wolverine in one piece, yet somehow she still needs a dying Wolverine to save her from being casually thrown from the plane. A woman who can fly needs a dying man to help stop her from being sucked out of the death to her death...really?!
This is the perfect example of how Jean is predominantly used in contrast to her peers and love interests.
I am sincerely curious, was she really "exhausting the whole of her telekinetic powers"? In either case, this moment was certainly either lazily or sloppily (or both) written. It makes no sense, considering what she can do and could do back then.
I think what is so fascinating about Jean, and what has caused many of her fans both to love her and distress on her behalf, is that she has been written as both weak and dependent and strong and independent. She has swung to and dwelled on both sides of the pendulum and everywhere else in between. She's dichotomous that way. It would be one thing if she had always and consistently been written as weaker than or subservient to those around her, but she has not, which is why so many long for her to be depicted as she has been in her stronger and more independent moments.
I feel good about how Duggan is depicting her on X-Men. We're only two issues in, and I'm already looking forward to versus dreading what he's going to do with her next.
Last edited by Mercury; 09-08-2021 at 10:30 AM. Reason: Grammar