So now we have this issue with King using Booster as a vehicle for his story throwing characterization and common sense under the bus for an unneeded plotline. Someone called him out on this and King seems to believe Booster is acting like Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life. No, he's not. Clarence didn't force the situation, George Bailey was going to commit suicide and thought the world would be better off without him. Clarence showed him that wasn't true. Booster could easily do this without risking the timeline. By either taking Bruce into another parallel timeline or to the Vanishing Point to let Bruce view it on the screen. Booster Gold does not risk everything to force a villains' plan onto a friend. Because make no mistake this is the sort of plan a villain would make.
Booster even mentioned the Mongul plot with the Black Mercy. Which confuses me because didn't King deny knowing about the "stuck with Wonder Woman for years and tempted to cheat" plot being previously done but he acknowledges doing this one?
SKEETS has a time machine in him? ! I don't feel like spelling out everything wrong with that. The concept of Booster easily being able to crack solid time--which we saw in Action Comics has serious repercussions--is ridiculously stupid. It's dangerous and seems pointless. So the plan is to change time--which Bruce wouldn't remember--inform Bruce what he did then take it all away? That's beyond dumb and out of character. And Booster wants to make Bruce value life but toys with it and enjoys Hal killing himself? That makes no sense !
I've seen people defend this and claim we should wait and see. But there's two points I want to bring up: This goes against not just every characterization of Booster including Jurgens recent story/rules of time travel it also presents a horrible representation of the character for new readers. Even if this isn't our Booster this is who people will think Booster Gold is.
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