With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

[Sabivar]

I'm guessing they dated but it didn't work out. Plus, Tamaran is more Captain Comet's home now than Earth.

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Yes, but in this chapter they talk like this is the first time they've seen each other since the burning of the Wombworld. Hell, Captain Comet talks about how far human science has developed "since he left Earth" which only makes sense if he's talking about when he left in the 1950s or whenever it was.

 

[Ngamer11]

Yes, but in this chapter they talk like this is the first time they've seen each other since the burning of the Wombworld. Hell, Captain Comet talks about how far human science has developed "since he left Earth" which only makes sense if he's talking about when he left in the 1950s or whenever it was.

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They're referencing that event, nothing said makes it seem that was the last time they saw each other. And Captain Comet is probably still getting used to the fact that Earth's tech isn't as he remembered it. It may take some time before he's normalized Earth's current tech level rather than subconsciously thinking it's the same as when he left.

 

[Sabivar]

They're referencing that event, nothing said makes it seem that was the last time they saw each other. And Captain Comet is probably still getting used to the fact that Earth's tech isn't as he remembered it. It may take some time before he's normalized Earth's current tech level rather than subconsciously thinking it's the same as when he left.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is that it feels very weird that no mention is made of Paul and Adam's interactions since the burning of the Wombworld (which also isn't used by name here, which is also odd). They discuss the fact that Adam can't understand Paul's mind very well, something that they've brought up before, with not indication that this is ground they've trod before. "I wasn't sure that you'd be coming back" is a strange thing to say when Paul has already turned up to ask Adam for help recently (to deal with the Computer Tyrants of Colu) but would make more sense if they've not seen each other since Adam gave Paul the runaround before the Vegan powers burned the Wombworld.

Then Adam automatically jumps to guessing that there's a problem with Earth, not that there's some kind of telepathic problem that Paul wants help with like freeing the Coluans. Like I said, there's not mention of Blake and Hera's relationship, despite the fact that last time we heard from them (which was only a couple of months before the Anti-Life hit, during the whole business with dethroning Zeus) Hera seemed to be getting along rather well with him. If they didn't work out and Adam came back to Tamaran, he doesn't bring up how lucky that timing was that he missed the Anti-Life. There's also no mention of Adam's possible involvement with Paul's Earth-uplifting project, something Paul was trying to get him on board for. Even if Adam didn't end up being involved you'd think that Paul would mention it, at least to make it clear that Adam's help is actually needed now instead of it just being useful!

There's no one thing I can point to that's a continuity break. But I reread this whole fic recently and this chapter feels very odd given how the relationship between Paul and Adam has developed, either not mentioning things they did together or framing their discussions like those events didn't happen.

This is just my opinion, but one of the things I like about this fic is how it maintains a strong sense of continuity and events continuing to have affects, and this chapter felt very below average at doing that.

 

[Darko]

This is just my opinion, but one of the things I like about this fic is how it maintains a strong sense of continuity and events continuing to have affects, and this chapter felt very below average at doing that

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The problem is that this fic has been going in for over a decade and there's a lot of characters, scenes and events in it, and Zoat sometimes forgets about them.

 

[Mr Zoat]

The problem is that this fic has been going in for over a decade and there's a lot of characters, scenes and events in it, and Zoat sometimes forgets about them.

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Basically this. Sorry about that, but I'd forgotten about both the dating and the Computer Tyrants. I still don't remember the Computer Tyrants thing. I'll tyr and bring up the date in tomorow's segment/

 

[CrazyNoVa]

Brother Eye always goes rogue.

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You mean the same way that Ranx always joins the Sinestro Corps? The same way that Batman would never let someone get away with killing people and still remain on a JLA-affiliated organization? The same way that Poison Ivy would never get depowered by Swamp Thing? The same way that Nabu is always good and never gets destroyed? The same way that the speed formula that gave Jay Garrick his powers was never replicated and distributed anywhere?

Because all of those above conventions have been defied here, despite the fact that in canon, these rules and events are almost always constant in almost every continuity, because status quo and all that.

But remember, the status quo does not truly exist in this universe, and there's no telling what convention Zoat will break next. Do you really think he would be above making a continuity where Brother Eye does not turn evil? He's already shown that he's perfectly fine with breaking the canon, so who knows what he'll do next?

Take your bets, folks - is Paul going to be normal, or is he about to uncover something weird and dangerous that will distract him for a while?

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That's a sucker's bet. We all know Paul is already distracted.

 

[Sabivar]

Basically this. Sorry about that, but I'd forgotten about both the dating and the Computer Tyrants. I still don't remember the Computer Tyrants thing. I'll tyr and bring up the date in tomorow's segment/

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Sorry if I was a bit harsh in how I brought it up. I really do appreciate this story, and I can understand that with how long it is (it must be pushing 6 million words by now, right?) that you'd forget things. The events with the Computer Tyrants happened in Episode 106: Back Seat (which was also the episode where Paul revealed that Karmang was White to the Martian populace and caused the collapse of their caste system).