tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post6511507924558526227..comments2023-06-20T08:36:34.869-06:00Comments on My Geeky Geeky Ways: One Good Thing And TECHINCALLY One Bad Thing (With Some Ranting) AboutThe Fall of Aresnal #1Starmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06094232300119392822noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post-82036905901139124592010-03-28T15:36:54.000-06:002010-03-28T15:36:54.000-06:00The lazurus pit was even brought up by the charact...The lazurus pit was even brought up by the characters as something to cure Dinah's baby-making. Though the restoration of her cry was obviously the meta-purpose to the entire plot, the only reason she was in the vicinity of a Lazurus Pit to start with was because Ra's Al Ghul wanted her to have his babies.<br>So yeah, I'd say it's pretty obvious (even Word of God, if the person writing the between-story blurbs in For Better Or Worse can count as that)<br>However, the more I read those panels I haven't read the comic, the more I think that it is just Roy lashing out in pain, and when you're in pain you want to make it clear that no one understands your pain. An adopted son lashing out at his adopted mother who has lost another adopted child, is pretty much the only person I from whom will forgive such a crappy phrase as "own flesh-and-blood". Because you take the cheap shots when you're in that much pain.innerbrathttp://innerbrat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post-45418712095954827812010-03-28T18:48:25.000-06:002010-03-28T18:48:25.000-06:00The lazurus pit was even brought up by the charact...<i>The lazurus pit was even brought up by the characters as something to cure Dinah's baby-making. Though the restoration of her cry was obviously the meta-purpose to the entire plot, the only reason she was in the vicinity of a Lazurus Pit to start with was because Ra's Al Ghul wanted her to have his babies. </i><br>It's been a while since I read that issue but I THOUGHT that was the case. <br><i>However, the more I read those panels I haven't read the comic, the more I think that it is just Roy lashing out in pain, and when you're in pain you want to make it clear that no one understands your pain. An adopted son lashing out at his adopted mother who has lost another adopted child, is pretty much the only person I from whom will forgive such a crappy phrase as "own flesh-and-blood". Because you take the cheap shots when you're in that much pain. </i><br>And yet... somehow, the way this is written and illustrated... Roy seems more like a whiny kid than a man in mourning, if that makes sense?starmanmatthttp://newtestblog78.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post-13019450996041298362010-03-29T01:01:00.000-06:002010-03-29T01:01:00.000-06:00Actually, yeah it does. i feel like I'm willin...Actually, yeah it does. i feel like I'm willing to give Roy a free pass for stupidity, but not the writer.innerbrathttp://innerbrat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post-87611911765404058702010-03-29T02:33:21.000-06:002010-03-29T02:33:21.000-06:00YEah that's right because I'm pretty sure ...YEah that's right because I'm pretty sure she did tell Ra's that she couldn't have babies... and he was all 'teehee' about it.tarotchanhttp://tarotchan.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post-41854124667688462010-03-29T18:29:53.001-06:002010-03-29T18:29:53.001-06:00Yeah. Roy can afford to be irrational but the who...Yeah. Roy can afford to be irrational but the whole situation the writer (or, as I increasingly suspect, DC Editorial) has created is irrational.starmanmatthttp://newtestblog78.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533456818745661203.post-71372440401962738072010-03-29T18:29:53.000-06:002010-03-29T18:29:53.000-06:00... you're right! As was said above, that was...... you're right! As was said above, that was the whole reason he took Di to the pits in the first place!starmanmatthttp://newtestblog78.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com