"Maybe I Deserve To be Alone...Forever!"
Mar. 17th, 2009 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsA few more thoughts on Booster Gold (yes, I'm still reading it. I took a hiatus to finish the Riddlemaster books, plus classes):
I've already ranted to several people at length about this, but it really bugs me how mean the other heroes are to Booster. Like, every time Superman and Batman and the rest of the League show up, they're all "oh, that crazy Booster, he's just a money-grubbing hack, he isn't really good for anything." When Lex Luthor's Boosterbot attacks him, Superman isn't suspicious because as a member of the Justice League Booster shouldn't really be the sort to start gunning for another hero - just that he didn't think Booster was that strong. It's all so mean and dismissive.
And, like, for some reason, even though I knew Booster's timeline already, it only really clicked in my head that Booster is only about 2 years older than me, 3 at a stretch. He is a BABY. So yes, he's self-centered and hot-headed and impulsive and kind of an idiot. BECAUSE HE IS A BABY. I - obviously - know rather a lot of college guys, and you know what? THEY ARE IDIOTS. CUT HIM SOME SLACK. HE WILL GROW OUT OF IT (well, okay, he mostly won't, but they don't know that!).
The pages where Michelle died also just about broke my heart. It was done really well. And oddly enough, it's not that she's dead that is so painful. She's not that well-developed as a character in this book, to be honest. And since I don't live under a rock, I know that she isn't really dead, just time-yoinked to the future. But Booster doesn't know that. He's just a twenty-something kid who saw his sister die right in front of him, because of him, and knowing that he will spend the next ten years alone and blaming himself for her death? OW MY HEART.
Basically, every time I read something with Booster in it, I end up wanting to hug him and never stop.
I've already ranted to several people at length about this, but it really bugs me how mean the other heroes are to Booster. Like, every time Superman and Batman and the rest of the League show up, they're all "oh, that crazy Booster, he's just a money-grubbing hack, he isn't really good for anything." When Lex Luthor's Boosterbot attacks him, Superman isn't suspicious because as a member of the Justice League Booster shouldn't really be the sort to start gunning for another hero - just that he didn't think Booster was that strong. It's all so mean and dismissive.
And, like, for some reason, even though I knew Booster's timeline already, it only really clicked in my head that Booster is only about 2 years older than me, 3 at a stretch. He is a BABY. So yes, he's self-centered and hot-headed and impulsive and kind of an idiot. BECAUSE HE IS A BABY. I - obviously - know rather a lot of college guys, and you know what? THEY ARE IDIOTS. CUT HIM SOME SLACK. HE WILL GROW OUT OF IT (well, okay, he mostly won't, but they don't know that!).
The pages where Michelle died also just about broke my heart. It was done really well. And oddly enough, it's not that she's dead that is so painful. She's not that well-developed as a character in this book, to be honest. And since I don't live under a rock, I know that she isn't really dead, just time-yoinked to the future. But Booster doesn't know that. He's just a twenty-something kid who saw his sister die right in front of him, because of him, and knowing that he will spend the next ten years alone and blaming himself for her death? OW MY HEART.
Basically, every time I read something with Booster in it, I end up wanting to hug him and never stop.