I'm not buying the last issue/pages online but I saw a spoiler I wanted to talk about. I'm mostly going to talk about another writer using this plot and talk about why it doesn't work.
What is it with writers going back to plots that already failed with readers? The ones trying desperately hard to make Jason and Barbara a thing and in regards to this issue Talia thinking Jason makes the perfect heir for Ras Al Ghul?This idea has never made sense to me, why does it even exist? No really, what does it accomplish? It's already been established in nearly every bat title since Damian entered the picture that he's the actual heir. From what I remember from Tynions' run Ras Al Ghul didn't want Jason to be his heir, he didn't understand why Talia even chose him. The reasoning we were given didn't even make sense for why she chose him.
Because he could do a never before seen B.S. move that she couldn't that literally punched the immortality out of the Untitled? (Then everyone expected him to still know how to do it when he had amnesia and he only did it when he remembered anyway.) How does that prove he's the right person to lead a group of assassins that want to "cleanse" the earth? Or fit Ras Al Ghul's obsession with his heir being connected to his bloodline?
- Bruce was chosen, Ras wanted Bruce to marry Talia and continue the bloodline.
- Damian literally is his grandson by blood and a direct link to the man he sees as worthy.
- Tim was going to be forced to produce an heir with Ras half sister.
Which brings me to why this plotline bothers me so much (besides it being nonsensical.) Tynion had Talia meet and deduce Jason was the perfect candidate when he was twelve (*1) Before she even met Bruce when Jason is literally a child and she instantly takes interest in him. It's an uncomfortable vibe not helped by the fact Chris refers to her as Jason's girlfriend.
So are we supposed to assume by this that she kept an eye on him for years? That her interest is also to continue the bloodline with him? (*2) Was this (under Tynion) an attempt to link what happened under Winick? Or just to try to explain why Talia helped him at all because no one buys her having compassion for the kid Joker brutally murdered?
Honestly I have no idea because I'm trying hard to understand what writers are trying to say and why they think this is a compelling story.
*1 I've seen people claim Talia was Jason's age which really doesn't make sense and she's definitely not drawn as a child. The timeline might be different now but there's an age gap there either way.
*2 Which doesn't even make sense given her devotion to Bruce?
Yeah, the story was mediocre and self-indulgent until that last page reveal, then it went straight to awful.
ReplyDeleteIt really is a nonsensical addition to Jason that is just blatantly ripping off from Damian. That is why I rather like the All-Caste replacing the League as the ones who trained Jason, it accomplishes the same goal without making him feel like he's ripping off Damian's backstory. People already claim that Jason keeps stealing things from his brothers so anything that gives the critics less ammo is a good thing on my book.
Tynion being the one calling the shots about Batman for the foreseeable makes me want for Jason to be shelved for a while. I'd hate if Tynion pulled the same thing he did with Tim and regressing him to UtRH Jason just because is what he liked.
Except for the league taking care of Jason/the pit healing him Jason had no other connection. Tynion retconned the LOA training him. Winick had the LOA, except for Talia, hunting Jason down. Lobdell had Talia just take him to the All Caste. Damian and Cass both have the LOA connection via training and through their parents, Jason doesn't need it.
ReplyDeleteIt's lazy writing that never even amounts to anything because no one is willing to have him written as a skilled fighter.
Same.