Sci fi crimes
Oct. 8th, 2022 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThe arrowverse is really freaking casual about
imposing the death of personality
on basically everyone who looks familiar.
It isn't 'waking people up' or 'restoring their memory'.
Earth Prime people are exactly as real and valid as Earth 1, Earth 38, any other Earth.
Installing memories of earth 1 on earth prime is murder to the person who grew up there and owns that body.
It's like installing Harry or HR in Nash, which oh, hey, they also did. But it's also like installing Eobard, which the show at least noticed was a bad thing. None of those alternate universe people own that body! And those 'memories' are just made up stuff, compared to the universe as it actually stands.
It's like when Angel erased Connor. They've got Mia of earth prime right there, but they don't like who she chooses to be, so they just... overwrite her.
The characters are just going around casually murdering people in a way that doesn't leave a body.
The writers on the other hand are just working at cross purposes between shows and episodes. Multiple seasons of Flash demonstrating that different universes are different people? Oh oops, new story, secretly what they have in common is all that matters now!
But over on Legends there's whole arcs about the difference between Zari and Zari, or Ava and Ava and Ava, and Behrad almost getting his timeline changed is a major personal emergency, because who we are matters and we are not interchangeable. They never try and 'fix' Zari by 'restoring' memories of Zari! Nor should they, it would be awful.
So when all the other shows do so casually and repeatedly?
It's really freaking creepy
and does not engage with the world they have set up at ALL.
It's a major part of why I can't be having with a lot of what went on post crisis.
They wrecked their toys and tried to keep them too, and wanted us to care but only in the right way for the right length of time.
It ends up being really cruel and making decisions about who matters that I can't be having with at all.
imposing the death of personality
on basically everyone who looks familiar.
It isn't 'waking people up' or 'restoring their memory'.
Earth Prime people are exactly as real and valid as Earth 1, Earth 38, any other Earth.
Installing memories of earth 1 on earth prime is murder to the person who grew up there and owns that body.
It's like installing Harry or HR in Nash, which oh, hey, they also did. But it's also like installing Eobard, which the show at least noticed was a bad thing. None of those alternate universe people own that body! And those 'memories' are just made up stuff, compared to the universe as it actually stands.
It's like when Angel erased Connor. They've got Mia of earth prime right there, but they don't like who she chooses to be, so they just... overwrite her.
The characters are just going around casually murdering people in a way that doesn't leave a body.
The writers on the other hand are just working at cross purposes between shows and episodes. Multiple seasons of Flash demonstrating that different universes are different people? Oh oops, new story, secretly what they have in common is all that matters now!
But over on Legends there's whole arcs about the difference between Zari and Zari, or Ava and Ava and Ava, and Behrad almost getting his timeline changed is a major personal emergency, because who we are matters and we are not interchangeable. They never try and 'fix' Zari by 'restoring' memories of Zari! Nor should they, it would be awful.
So when all the other shows do so casually and repeatedly?
It's really freaking creepy
and does not engage with the world they have set up at ALL.
It's a major part of why I can't be having with a lot of what went on post crisis.
They wrecked their toys and tried to keep them too, and wanted us to care but only in the right way for the right length of time.
It ends up being really cruel and making decisions about who matters that I can't be having with at all.
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