Re: CW # 2 ruminating !!!

YKW '06 wrote:
On 19 Jun 2006, the voices tell me DonFromBarre@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I was a bit taken aback by Reed's reaction. Including his apparent
willingness to possibly imprison friends in this new facility he's so
excited to build, as well as his telling Sue that the "42" disc was
classified.

He's been keeping secrets from her for years with regard to his
government work. She knows it's necessary -- anyone whose spouse does
top-level government work knows it -- and she would/should have long been
used to it by now. Shouldn't trigger any alarms for her. (It =will=, but
that's bad writing.)

Agreed.

As for possibly imprisoning friends, Sue Richards is a woman who
deliberately kept her own son comatose for a substantial amount of time

When was this?

and has had to deal with dangerous and crazy family and friends
practically from the moment she took that little space jaunt.

And this? Recently?

She's
hardly the sort who'd suddenly become squeamish at the thought of locking
up lawbreakers, no matter who they happened to be or what her prior
relationship with them was. (Of course, she =will=, but that's bad
writing.)

Agreed, largely.

Also strange was Cap's willingness to make the Young Avengers part of
his underground after trying so hard to get them to quit in their own
book.

I'm taking this as Cap not being anywhere near as noble or as pure of
motive as he likes to pretend or to believe. We've seen that to an extent
early in NA when he manipulates a number of candidates he's previously
rejected or even looked down upon into signing on, just because he thinks
he needs their raw power (but doesn't need the hassle and PR-
radioactivity of Old Avengers membership). Ditto, YA.

And -that- happens to be =good= writing, capturing a less-than-savory
element of the character that most writers gloss over: the monomaniacal
focus on the mission, consequences, collateral damage and gross
hypocrisies along the way be damned.

If it had been intended that way, you might have been right, but it
wasn't.

He's still the sort who worries
about ethics and morality -- but just =after= the mission is
accomplished. (As opposed to Ult Cap, who genuinely could not give a good
goddam about introspection.)

What I'm looking forward to most is Jonah's reaction. Once he wakes
up.

I'm thinking he doesn't buy the reveal. How many times has he been faked
out on Spidey's ID? Too many times for an old cynic like JJJ to be
suckered again, even on national TV.

Hey, you guys obviously haven't seen the preview pages for Front Lines
#2, posted in the All The Rage column... :-)

- Tue

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