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i posted this first on millar world, but that lot are thick as two planks, i'm telling you....
firstly, it's physically impossible for ray to have attacked jean in issue 3-4
why? if you reread those issues closely, you see the struggle off screen in jean's house. we see the phone richochet off the wall, we hear her calling for help, and when we see the phone next, ray has been on the other end for 33 seconds, and jean is still struggling. the phone is front and center of the frame for a reason.
also, we do not actually see the killer at all. not like in issue one. we see a pair of hands gagging jean, but these could very easily be her own hands. the single frame in issue 4 of the killer behind the door is not in context, but rather mr miracle describing jean's story to the others. and it's not possible for it to be true.
she comes in the door. killer jumps her right there and blindfolds her, according to jean.
then at some point she speed dials ray, and starts calling for help. BLINDFOLDED. this is how she claims not to have seen anything besides the boots.
she's lying. which leaves the question: who has access to a shrinking belt besides ray?
upon further consideration, I think the only thing that makes sense is jean loves ray and wants him back, but feels like she screwed him over too terribly for him to accept her without a really extreme circumstance.
she's always suprised to find out how much he still loves her. she cheated on him, divorced him, stole half his patents, and drove him into the jungle to get away from her.
but i think at some point she realised, like ray already knows, that they are the love of each others lives. they're just two really desperately lonely people who don't know how to talk to each other. he's the godless physicst, and she's the hardcore lawyer. neither is able to deal with emotions very well. the pressures of the superhero life screwed them both up. that's in keeping with the whole theme of the series so far. a baroque revenge plot wouldn't be.
why did she kill sue? partly as a catalyst to get ray back and partly jelousy. sue and ralph are the happy couple. the model couple who got closer, not farther apart, like ray and jean. in the face of everything they stuck it out. she's terrorising all the heroes and threatening their spouses to get ray back. the tragic part of all this i think is that all she had to do was ask. she wants to go back to the 'good old days' and forget all the grim eighties stuff they went though, but it's too late. she's snapped under the pressure. maybe sue told jean she was pregnant, and that's what put her over the edge.
all of this would be in keeping with meltzer's tone so far. really heartbreaking stuff if it's true. |
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