This sounds OK. I never really read Emerlad Twilight, so I wasn't angry or involed with the character enough to care.
I will say this: I grow weary of endless 'it turns out they were bastards from the start' reveals. The Guardians of Oa, Professor X, Reed Richards, Doc Magnus and so on. I understand the idea of modern age writers wanting to contextualize more simplistic origins into something more...'realistic'. But the heel turns have become tiresome. At least the Guardians have a better motivation than most...they weren't ever really presented as anything other than cold-hearted jerks to begin with, so it's not nearly as much of a turn. But stuff like the "oh, Professor X recruited a team that you never heard of and they all died and he never felt guilty about it or thought about it once in 20 years of continuity and then one day SUDDENLY it all came out one day" makes me stabby.
At least this sounded like it made sense...the Guardians aren't so much unfeeling evil jerks as 'big picture' guys who know you can't save the universe from itself without breaking some eggs. And they're all about the 'greater good', not absolute good.
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Date: 2011-02-22 03:19 pm (UTC)I will say this: I grow weary of endless 'it turns out they were bastards from the start' reveals. The Guardians of Oa, Professor X, Reed Richards, Doc Magnus and so on. I understand the idea of modern age writers wanting to contextualize more simplistic origins into something more...'realistic'. But the heel turns have become tiresome. At least the Guardians have a better motivation than most...they weren't ever really presented as anything other than cold-hearted jerks to begin with, so it's not nearly as much of a turn. But stuff like the "oh, Professor X recruited a team that you never heard of and they all died and he never felt guilty about it or thought about it once in 20 years of continuity and then one day SUDDENLY it all came out one day" makes me stabby.
At least this sounded like it made sense...the Guardians aren't so much unfeeling evil jerks as 'big picture' guys who know you can't save the universe from itself without breaking some eggs. And they're all about the 'greater good', not absolute good.