I Come By Way Of Sorrow

[redbrunja]

I feel like the universe make this episode of Green Lantern extra-awesome to make up for the whirlpool of suck that was last Saturday's Young Justice.

Which is to say, OH MY GOOD, GREEN LANTERN. HOW AWESOME WAS THAT?



"You want to interrogate a machine? Good look conversing with wires and scrap metal."

OH RAZER.

The thought that Razer might believe that Aya isn't capable of love and thus, of loving him, wasn't something that I had thought of, but I LOVED IT. I especially adored the show's mature and rational and inclusive definition of sentience.

Also, can I just take a moment and go:

IT'S TEXT THAT THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. EXPLICITLY TEXT. 

AYA THE CLOCKWORK GIRL HAS PROVABLE EMOTIONS. RAZER WENT SOMEWHERE HIS POWER IS DAMPENED AND *REAWOKE* HIS RED LANTERN POWER WITH THE STRENGTH OF HIS LOVE FOR AYA.

Next stop, makeouts.

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

This episode just gave me so, so many feelings. SO MANY. Razer in self-imposed exile actively trying to become less angry (his character arc since the first episode? Fantastic). Seeing Aya back in her body. Razer seeing the ship and then Aya in person. Aya's reaction to seeing HIM and the fact she had a list of probable places he could be. Even his 'open mouth, insert foot' moment was touching because, yeah, I hadn't really thought that his hang-up would be doubt that she could return his feelings, rather than, say, qualms about her looking like Ilana.

Hmm what else did I love? The fact that Razer has matured to the point where he would actually go to Saint Walker for advice. Aya's determination and agency to try and redeem the Manhunter, her horror at its insistence that they're the same, and then her ability to be like 'dude not even.' And EMOTIONS DETECTED and RIGHTEOUS ANGER and *swoons*

So yeah, pretty much the whole episode.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Ah, the innocent days of Blue Hope.

Razer in self-imposed exile actively trying to become less angry (his character arc since the first episode? Fantastic).

It's so dynamic and consistent. While Razer has matured worlds beyond the person he used to be you can still see the root of who he was in each episode. (Also, I find it really consistent that Razer will make bad choices or negative actions for really understandable reasons.