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beccaelizabethI started watching The Flash season 7, which I have had for a while but hesitated to see.
I had to stop the episodes in the middle a lot.
Turns out it makes me angry now. I do not like any decision they've made for a while now. Throwing away Wellses and making Timeless Wells decide to just live in the past turns out to make me really, really, pissed off.
Also, they keep calling Barry the Paragon of Love, while ignoring the thing where the universe rebooted and he's never actually met this timeline of Iris, because only the Paragons survived, so the other people are as much the characters we already knew as Harry was Harrison was HR was Sherloque was Nash ie not at all. They spent seven years showing us in detail how different people are actually different people, and then rely on us ignoring that and rolling with the reboot.
I've had it with every storytelling choice they've made for years now.
... so why am I trying to watch this?
... it's just making me unresonably angry. I know this is not a reasonable amount of angry to have. It is a story and does not deserve my feels any more.
I had to stop the episodes in the middle a lot.
Turns out it makes me angry now. I do not like any decision they've made for a while now. Throwing away Wellses and making Timeless Wells decide to just live in the past turns out to make me really, really, pissed off.
Also, they keep calling Barry the Paragon of Love, while ignoring the thing where the universe rebooted and he's never actually met this timeline of Iris, because only the Paragons survived, so the other people are as much the characters we already knew as Harry was Harrison was HR was Sherloque was Nash ie not at all. They spent seven years showing us in detail how different people are actually different people, and then rely on us ignoring that and rolling with the reboot.
I've had it with every storytelling choice they've made for years now.
... so why am I trying to watch this?
... it's just making me unresonably angry. I know this is not a reasonable amount of angry to have. It is a story and does not deserve my feels any more.
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Date: 2022-07-01 07:23 am (UTC)He decides to spend his life on loop because his years with his wife were so precious?
He doesn't know how to live without her?
That's just statement of problem, that's where you start, grieving and not knowing how to move on. It isn't a *solution*.
Like sure, with that superpower, who wouldn't be tempted? Everyone has lost someone. *Especially* lately. Everyone has lost someone, and everyone wants a do over, or just more time.
But Wells implies he's just going to live in the memories.
Not try and fix anything, just repeat.
It's wrong. It's cowardly, fearing to face new possibility. And it means his wife ends when she dies.
We dont know anything about her. No one living in their world knows what he knows. All that ends, with her, because he chooses the least effort way.
What is love? Is it dependence, attachment, utter inability to let go?
Or is it something that becomes part of us, elaborating on shared themes, driving our dreams, making us better than we had been alone?
Wells just... stops. That's all love meant to him. Basking in her presence, or choosing not to live.
It's wrong.
God knows it's easy to get stuck on the idea of time travel because you can't see a way forwards, to spend day after day revisiting what you have left because you can't imagine what's next, it's utterly understandable, but it's *wrong*.
Fucking tragic.