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beccaelizabethDon't really have anything to say, have had a couple of days of mostly staring at nothing much thinking about nothing and everything.
The Flash and the way the show treats Thawne has been bothering me, but not in a write fix it fic way, because it's too pervasive. It's not a single thing that needs resolved, it's years of writing choices that make it no fun for me. I keep circling back to earlier in the show but there isn't any point it treats people the way I would. I can't fanfic or AU it from their starting premises.
The thing is I have a tendency to see hero and villain as thesis and antithesis, and the natural answer to their problems as synthesis, somewhere in the middle. But these superhero stories exist in a cyclical stasis where the hero preserves a status quo where things never get better but somehow still no complaint about the initial condition is truly valid. They dont intentionally present a problem that needs solving, they present a situation that needs defending. So it's like saying the timeline is sacred: they never really articulate why or what they even mean by that, but somehow wanting to change things is Wrong.
So the man that believes in a better tomorrow is wrong too.
And the way 'heroes' avoid long term consequences that would involve admitting they were in the wrong - they can get convicted of crimes but they're never going to stay in jail for them - is just part of the cyclical stasis. It's not like the villains tend to stay in jail either. But it ends up presenting a world where people can get away with and even get praised dor any shit, up to and including murder, if they ever get that hero label applied to them.
And once they're a villain they can do the exact same things as the hero but outside of Legends they'll still end up the designated bad guys again.
It's like having the negative and positive forces be separate personifications, not tendencies withing a single person. The longer the show goes on the more it builds in the idea good is a thing you are not a thing you do, and evil likewise. It feels like they never grew out of first season Barry saying it was okay when they do it because they're the good guys. Like the show didnt know that was statement of problem.
But then over in Legends of Tomorrow it not only is possible to change they also get their own laws of 'physics' when they try it. A lot better to watch. And they do better with characters who then go back to Flash to get... flattened somehow.
I don't know, I wouldnt write any of it this way. The genre endures because of the cyclical aspects, but it frustrates immensely for the same reasons.
So then I try to think about something entirely unrelated but it doesn't work because my brain isn't done chewing on that arrowverse stuff yet.
Which is the same reason I can't get started watching anything else.
So I guess I'm just going to do a bit of nothing for a bit.
On the plus side I got my tasks done for the week so far, including sorting things ready to throw out.
The bag 'so many cables' is going to resolve years worth of drawer mess.
Also I couldnt get the batteries out of one flashing little lamp I have that has a :-) face, and the batteries looked discolored and not right, so I was :( and thought I'd have to throw it away. But then I saw how to get the whole mechanism out, so I have the :-) guy and the light is ready to throw away.
:-)
And cleaner day happened correctly, so, things are holding steady.
I just get stuck on stories.
Well there's not much else to do.
The Flash and the way the show treats Thawne has been bothering me, but not in a write fix it fic way, because it's too pervasive. It's not a single thing that needs resolved, it's years of writing choices that make it no fun for me. I keep circling back to earlier in the show but there isn't any point it treats people the way I would. I can't fanfic or AU it from their starting premises.
The thing is I have a tendency to see hero and villain as thesis and antithesis, and the natural answer to their problems as synthesis, somewhere in the middle. But these superhero stories exist in a cyclical stasis where the hero preserves a status quo where things never get better but somehow still no complaint about the initial condition is truly valid. They dont intentionally present a problem that needs solving, they present a situation that needs defending. So it's like saying the timeline is sacred: they never really articulate why or what they even mean by that, but somehow wanting to change things is Wrong.
So the man that believes in a better tomorrow is wrong too.
And the way 'heroes' avoid long term consequences that would involve admitting they were in the wrong - they can get convicted of crimes but they're never going to stay in jail for them - is just part of the cyclical stasis. It's not like the villains tend to stay in jail either. But it ends up presenting a world where people can get away with and even get praised dor any shit, up to and including murder, if they ever get that hero label applied to them.
And once they're a villain they can do the exact same things as the hero but outside of Legends they'll still end up the designated bad guys again.
It's like having the negative and positive forces be separate personifications, not tendencies withing a single person. The longer the show goes on the more it builds in the idea good is a thing you are not a thing you do, and evil likewise. It feels like they never grew out of first season Barry saying it was okay when they do it because they're the good guys. Like the show didnt know that was statement of problem.
But then over in Legends of Tomorrow it not only is possible to change they also get their own laws of 'physics' when they try it. A lot better to watch. And they do better with characters who then go back to Flash to get... flattened somehow.
I don't know, I wouldnt write any of it this way. The genre endures because of the cyclical aspects, but it frustrates immensely for the same reasons.
So then I try to think about something entirely unrelated but it doesn't work because my brain isn't done chewing on that arrowverse stuff yet.
Which is the same reason I can't get started watching anything else.
So I guess I'm just going to do a bit of nothing for a bit.
On the plus side I got my tasks done for the week so far, including sorting things ready to throw out.
The bag 'so many cables' is going to resolve years worth of drawer mess.
Also I couldnt get the batteries out of one flashing little lamp I have that has a :-) face, and the batteries looked discolored and not right, so I was :( and thought I'd have to throw it away. But then I saw how to get the whole mechanism out, so I have the :-) guy and the light is ready to throw away.
:-)
And cleaner day happened correctly, so, things are holding steady.
I just get stuck on stories.
Well there's not much else to do.