...and they always say they won't do it again, but then they rip your armor off and make you think of your real boyfriend teammate in order to survive. But, see, the thing is, once they've started thinking on their own, they just won't stop, and sure, today it's being a bit jealous of the newest model or upgrade, but tomorrow it realizes that you keep all your phonenumbers and contacts and music and whatnot in its possession, and hey, you really are dependent upon it. POWER CORRUPTS, 'faerie, you KNOW this! I mean, look what it did to Bacon Hair, OK? Or the Cylons. It started off (in BSG 2003) as being helpful and turned into a 12 planet nuke-fest and genocide. PROTECT YOURSELF!
And I firmly maintain that Quesada knew exactly what he was doing. There're these gleeful little intros at the beginning of the arc--you know, instead of saying "editor" or "artist," it's "the person who let us get away with this" and "co-conspirator" and whatnot. This would also lend authority to the "CW as messy breakup/huge relationship fight" theory. I would also like to point out that this is about the same time that The Authority started up, which in Millar's run (soo...2000, 2001?) had the team essentially encounter the Avengers...the Cap analog does BadWrong things to Apollo, and the Iron Man analog is talked out of violence by the Midnighter offering a hug and the first human contact and compassion he's had in years (implication is that he's not gonna get it on his current team). I don't think this is entirely coincidence, though perhaps The Authority drew on Quesada and not vice versa. *touches finger to nose, nods knowingly* Either way...erm, there might be an f-locked picspam (http://cursor-mundi.livejournal.com/15040.html) about how there is absolutely no way, textually, that the comparison can be avoided. (This is also the lesson I give on parallelism, btw.)
They ALWAYS say they love you
real boyfriendteammate in order to survive. But, see, the thing is, once they've started thinking on their own, they just won't stop, and sure, today it's being a bit jealous of the newest model or upgrade, but tomorrow it realizes that you keep all your phonenumbers and contacts and music and whatnot in its possession, and hey, you really are dependent upon it. POWER CORRUPTS, 'faerie, you KNOW this! I mean, look what it did to Bacon Hair, OK? Or the Cylons. It started off (in BSG 2003) as being helpful and turned into a 12 planet nuke-fest and genocide. PROTECT YOURSELF!And I firmly maintain that Quesada knew exactly what he was doing. There're these gleeful little intros at the beginning of the arc--you know, instead of saying "editor" or "artist," it's "the person who let us get away with this" and "co-conspirator" and whatnot. This would also lend authority to the "CW as messy breakup/huge relationship fight" theory. I would also like to point out that this is about the same time that The Authority started up, which in Millar's run (soo...2000, 2001?) had the team essentially encounter the Avengers...the Cap analog does BadWrong things to Apollo, and the Iron Man analog is talked out of violence by the Midnighter offering a hug and the first human contact and compassion he's had in years (implication is that he's not gonna get it on his current team). I don't think this is entirely coincidence, though perhaps The Authority drew on Quesada and not vice versa. *touches finger to nose, nods knowingly* Either way...erm, there might be an f-locked picspam (http://cursor-mundi.livejournal.com/15040.html) about how there is absolutely no way, textually, that the comparison can be avoided. (This is also the lesson I give on parallelism, btw.)