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musical-chick-13 · 3 years ago

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Finally getting to the last few Doom Patrol episodes, and I gotta say, this whole subplot with Jane fighting with the other alters because they want to keep Kay down because they’ll (allegedly) cease to exist or be less powerful if she gets well is 😬😬😬.

#yes let's ONCE AGAIN play into the stereotype that people suffering from did have 'evil' alters that make them inherently unstable!!#let's further villainize an already misunderstood and demonized illness!!#heaven forbid we have a system of alters behave like an actual system!!!!!#like...I'm not going to pretend what they were doing with Jane was perfect (and also I don't have did so I wouldn't ever truly know anyway)#but there at least was like...DISCUSSION?? of her condition? '''miranda''' explicitly wasn't an alter but a physical manifestation of trauma #which it makes sense that if the alters gained powers then the trauma that caused them would become its own powerful force too?#like. idk it made sense to me given the mechanics of the show. and then the point being 'if you make your trauma who you are then #you'll destroy yourself and might bring other people down with you by using it as a way to filter all your behavior' which I think is...#a pretty GOOD thing to talk about?? and at least in season 1 Jane was like 'I don't control them they don't control me' and it was #something that she saw as an inconvenience but it didn't seem like her situation was presented as like...inherently BAD?#now it's just kind of like 'oh everyone is horrible except for ONE ALTER but EVERYONE ELSE IS CAPITAL E EVIL' which. BAD.#I'm also not sure how I feel about Laura apparently devolving into Awful Person offscreen between episodes when we don't even see it #like that seems. weak. and a cop-out. maybe there will be more to work with in the last few episodes but the 1917 episodes were...#underwhelming. like bird patrol on the whole was a solid episode it's just that when the primary draw of the show is character development #(or de-development) and then we don't SEE IT ONSCREEN #idk I'm rambling sorry I just. YOU STARTED SO WELL. PLEASE STICK THE LANDING IN KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.#mc13 watches doom/pat #doom patrol spoilers

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