god like. yes i have a lot of opinions about the girls being presented / hallucinating / intercutting their consumption of jackie with their togas and laurel wreaths and the Classical Imagery of it all. obviously it was delightful for me a classicsposter etc.
anyway i think a lot of the Takes i have seen about this (maenads! bacchic frenzy! dionysos!) is actually... pretty profoundly missing the point / function of that staging? like, specifically it really feels what that is invoking is the Specter Of Western Civilization; what the classical imagery is doing is positioning their cannibalism as a Civilized action, not a wild one. like, this isn't doomcoming - they're all fully aware of their actions. this isn't a wild romping revel through the woods. they all know what the fuck they are doing!!!!
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With Icicle Jr and Artemis both being in this YJ episode I desperately need non-comics fans to know that in the comics they are married. Like, the comics villain Tigress and the comics villain Icicle Jr are a couple. They had a baby together.
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The clone was dying. The others didn't realize this but Danny did. After all the dealings with clones he's had over the years, namely his own, how could he not recognize the signs?
Danny had first discovered the clone a month back when he was so tired, he tripped through the floor at Cadmus. That's how he had found a whole other base under the lab. Danny could kick himself for all the secret experiments going on under his nose. Some of which, he soon discovered, were even using his own research. Research that was meant to help grow new organs for dying patients. Now it was being put towards a process he never wanted to deal with again, cloning. In this case, specifically a Superman clone.
When Danny first saw the clone designation "Superboy" asleep in his pod, the first emotion he felt was overwhelming sorrow. Sorrow for the countless clones that had no doubt died before this one. Sorrow that he hadn't done his due diligence to make sure Cadmus was completely above board. And sorrow for Superboy, who would not doubt be used as a pawn at best.
Which is why when Danny realized he was destabilizing, he almost wanted to let him. A death the child wasn't even aware of would most likely be better than a life of suffering. But Danny couldn't bring himself to standby and watch this boy die. For one, if Ellie ever found out, he'd probably face his final death. But mainly, if there was a chance, a chance that the kid could have a good life, filled with loved ones, he had to take it.
So Danny did the one thing he thought he would never do, he gave his own blood. He had made sure to keep his DNA away from others for obvious reasons but he had no other choice. He knew the ectoplasm inside him would be enough to stabilize the clone or more accurately to say he hoped it would be. So each day, after everyone had left the lab, he would sneak in and transfer some of his own blood to Superboy. All the while he would talk to him. He'd tell him about his day, about his friends. He'd tell him how excited Ellie would be to find out about him and the hopes he had for the boy's future. Danny wasn't even sure that Superboy could hear him but it didn't matter, he talked to him anyway.
Finally the day came when the clone was fully stabilized. Danny felt overwhelming relief and joy in that moment but there was still one thing left to take care of. He had to get the clone out of here. He wouldn't risk the boy being used as a weapon. He couldn't. Danny had planned to come back for him the next day, after he had finished destroying all of his research, but he never got the chance. When he came back the next day, the building was destroyed, and the clone was gone.
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shame on yj for skipping over robin jason. the one thing ill never forgive them for 😠😠
I know abt his cameos in s3 and 4 but idk. the audience never saw jason as robin. we dont really know his relationship with the team or w bruce or whatever. also its just been a long fucking time? since his death? it just takes away the emotional impact imo. not to mention the stupid amnesia thing ugh :/
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insaneposting. someone wrote a no plane crash au where they go to college and someone was Wrong about what My Alma Mater is like.
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