Originally Posted by
JackDaw
They are.
But theres’s surely a legitimate series of questions to be asked about whether the main characters are being written consistent with their history, and whether going forward most story lines will make sense given the characters claimed power sets.
Given that we’ve had long arcs where Reed has seen the danger of hubris, learnt the importance of teamwork and family, etc...it does seem strange that he feels it’s okay to create universes without a fair degree of certainty how it will pan out. Meanwhile leaving Johnny and Ben in total ignorance.
But right at start of arc...we’ve established that’s okay. And it’s also okay to change others peoples memories. Basically ...prudence and conventional morality has been jettisoned, in favour of experimentation and pragmatism.
And then we have a character whose power set is: “he can do anything he wants, on any scale up to creating universes without any apparent power source...except on unspecified times when he can’t”.
It doesn’t strike me as a great set-up for any but cosmic level stories. If the Richards family now struggle against the likes of Puppet Master, Mad Thinker, Frightful Four...it’s going to look as phoney as a three dollar bill.
But part of me hopes they do give Franklin at full power or near it a good long run. Let’s see if it can work..because the line “he will be become ultra-powerful one day” shouldn’t go on forever if we want to see overall story progression, rather than same stories re-run.
In my usual pessimistic way..I think a long run of ultra powered Franklin wouldn’t go well. But if it’s tried and go badly. Then he could just be permanently depowered, and we could move on..rather than effectively stuck in Groundhog Day.
And..of course..easily possible I’d be wrong, permanent full power Franklin might work well..and he can stay at that level. Either way would represent progress.