#I love PAD but I'm reaaaaaally not a fan of him just coming in to retcon the FUCK out of the previous run and just dip

[jademight]

What are your thoughts on the fact Bruce canonically almost blew up his school?

One thing that bugs me is I’m not a huge fan of the idea ross had been undoing his education for so long, I don’t like the idea that Bruce was somehow “coerced” into becoming a weapon designer for so long, especially since it contradicts the way ross talks about Bruce during his time on the gamma bomb project

Oh yeah that's from Tempus Fugit, right? I will freely admit to avoiding that mini-arc because of what I know of it in terms of its story. (I'm not a fan of stories that immediately retcon what came before. At least wait till the body is cold, ya kno?)

I am also not a fan of Marvel’s occasional habit of ‘Oh Bruce Banner is the true villain and Hulk is protecting us from him’ angle. I understand the vision, Bruce being a powder keg that’s been stewing for decades till the Gamma Bomb made him detonate makes sense, I know it has its fans, but I just don’t like it. Personal taste thing, 100 percent. 

Yeah I’m not a fan of stories that retcon in ‘Oh their paths have been intertwined for a long time, its all been planned!’, it rarely ever works in my eyes. Makes the Hand of the Author too overt, removes a lot of agency from the characters themselves because it makes everything predestined to a degree. There’s more fun to be had with the approach of ‘these characters have all been living separate lives until That One Event that made them forever linked’, there’s more drama to be mined that way rather than ‘Ah yes you see I knew you were coming this WHOLE time.’