I am alone on this barren earth (Jason Todd liker and Mia Dearden liker who honestly thinks issues 69-72 of the 2001 Green Arrow run are fun and good and would really like to talk about them beyond "Jason Todd was ooc and irredeemable there because he was trauma-dumping on Mia but also everything he said was fake and made up and he was manipulating her to become his sidekick and he blew up her school in retaliation because she didn't so really we should ignore the whole comic as bad writing /or agree he should just be read as an sadistic sidekick killer" (None of which is true and over half of which is directly stated to be false in the comic's text) but all people ever have to say about the comic is weird wrong takes about the three pages in which the gym fight happens ripped out of the very interesting and fun surrounding context)
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thinking about how mikey is towards enemies
in particular: "they've achieved the power of flight! good for them, you know?"
he definitely enjoys fighting and revels in beating enemies up
but like. "good for them, you know?" he knows bebop and rocksteady are their enemies, knows that there is at least something serious going on even if he doesn't necessarily understand what
he still celebrates a perceived achievement of theirs. there's a simple warmheartedness there that is so hard to find in people. and he's so genuine about it!
and that's why mikey's reaction to krang is i think one of the most profound lines of the movie
"i don't know that guy, but i hate that guy!"
it's such a stark difference. he's so agitated that he can't stand still while he says it
i think that there's a part of him that understands that bebop and rocksteady are just pawns in a larger game, where krang is one of the people calling the shots
but i also think that everyone has their limits, and krang blew past mikey's seemingly limitless ability to celebrate others. truly an impressive feat
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The show expresses El's and Will's main arc and desires through their art in s4.
On the one hand, we have Will, who creates a painting for Mike that portrays them and the party together again, as their dnd characters. Of course, it displays Will's desire of belonging again in that friend group, of having what was taken away from him last summer. But, after all, the main focus of the painting is Mike. Because 1, the painting is for Mike after all, and 2, Will himself is telling where his priorities are, by painting a heart on top of him. Mike's the heart, his heart.
On the other hand, with her art (the figures she makes), El portrays Hopper and his cabin, the first place she actually considered a home. This creation is, in a way, for Hopper. Since she obviously can't give it to him directly, it's a tribute to his sacrifice, therefore, it's made for him. That's where her priorities lie: family.
Will's arc, his biggest hopes and desires, are primarily about love, just how he expresses in his art. El's arc, her biggest hopes and desires, are primarily about family, just how she expresses in her art.
So, narratively, who would make more sense to end up in a relationship? The one whose focus is love and belonging (being who he loves one of the reasons he feels as if he doesn't belong) or the one whose focus is family and finding herself?
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