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It was all a bit weird really, wasn't it. I mean, I sort of understand super heroes a bit. I started understanding them when I moved around some of the causality. Put some super villains into the world - or some people using their abilities to do bad things - and then suddenly they have a huge advantage. They can't be stopped normal ways. So if you're a good person, I can totally see the next step that makes you go, "I need to do something about this, I don't want want my family to know what's going on, and I don't want people to be scared of me, hence .... etc"
I can also understand people's suspicion of government, but it's not so much an issue of freedom as fear. I don't want government to have details of me being gay (or at least I didn't used to, but I don't really care now) because a subsequent regime could do bad things with that. I can see why vigilantes are a danger too. Basically if you're in government, or—frankly—if you're a citizen, if you can get em, you'd want all your super heroes nicely responsible to the police or something, deputised and with responsibilities. Given how much money most people make, I can also see some heroes being way keen on being able to hero full time and get paid for it.
All of which is a bit rambling and all over the place, but it is to say, I get why people might want to be free of government, but I don't get why the heroes don't understand the simple logic of 'register or you can't go out there and protect people'. That seems totally reasonable to me, particularly when your main job is to assault people on sketchy evidence, or brawl in public. So yeah, they never really explained what the threat on the heroes was and why people resisted, except that it threatened the cheery status quo of comics. So I'm a bit cross about that.
And the plotting has been spotty. I mean, seriously, how many times have you read a comic where people fight in public and then look around them and realise how much damage they've done to the people they were trying to protect. I mean, crapping hell that's an old chestnut. And a cheap cheap ending.
On the other hand, as someone said earlier, it gets the universe to an interesting place. And of course the point was that no one is supposed to have done anything with bad intentions or anything unforgiveable, because we have to be able to forgive them and keep buying their books, so I get that you can't actually have a debate about rights and wrongs as such. If it gets you where you want to go, then maybe it doesn't matter about the ride itself. Except it sort of does to me, a little, in the background, sorry...
Overall as an event, it's been interesting and intriguing and I suspect a reasonable success. As a comic book in its own right, it has been clumsy, formulaic and a bit crappy. |
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