unmuchancho

[unmuchancho]

Okay, so I wanna add some things here (not native English speaker and I was not the best in class, sorry about writing), and I'll probably be wrong about some stuff, feel free to correct me.

I don't want to say what happened to Bart is correct. Being kicked out of who you consider your family, safe and trustworthy just because something you can't control feels incredibly shitty, I know that fear, but I want to mention other point of view and what I think is the most cruel part.

First, I don't think Jay moves Bart's stuff in garbage bags as something bad. Probably part of the garbage is Jay cleaning how messy and careless Bart's room is (I mean, look at the CD open next to fries, that's savage), and even if some of them are Bart's stuff, it is not a bad idea to use garbage bags, they are cheap, comfortable to carry and perfect for small moving. Jay not using boxes is better, because boxes are for real moves, like from a house to another house (or maybe in the USA is different, idk), he used what he had at home in that moment because he wouldn't really kick out Bart from his home, just take his stuff out of the room.

And he didn't move everything, Judy kept the TV.

Secondly, Bart being clearly moved to a guest room is fine, but you know what would have been cooler? A whole scene of Bart arriving at the house, noticing his room is not his room, going to talk (or complain) at Jay and finding out Judy's existence. They could have had a talk to demonstrate they are family and all the sweet stuff and maybe Bart and Judy could have had a bit of coexistence and MAYBE, I am not that sure about this, they shared their bedroom, like a sibling-like relationship. I know his relationship with Helen was different, but it was a similar situation, the daughter of your "dad" suddenly lives with you too.

What I think was a low kick move were the posters and the photo, because with the posters we don't know what happened to them. I want to think Jay took them off to give them to Bart later so he could put them in his new room, but we don't know. Oh, and I really think they could have done the other way, Bart keeps that bedroom and Judy is move to the guest room, she hadn't been in there for decades and the important thing is that she is back, not the memories of the room of the past century.

Lastly, I want to point out the photo of the first and last number. When Jay takes away Bart's stuff he doesn't take the photo, and that is Bart's photo of his family, is important to him, he has it on his nightstand. I get it, is to show us how Judy reacts, but still, was Jay really not thinking about giving Bart his photo of his family back? Because in the scene Jay and Joan leave the room without taking the photo, Judy keeps having it with her, and don't come up with the "they will get it later", they are speedsters, they do that immediately, or Judy could have given it to Jay in a single move of wrist.

In the lasts panels we can see how Judy now has a photo of the family, like Bart did, in her nightstand, the same position. Maybe it is because they wanted a parallelism with the beginning of the story, or because they didn't want to think of a different design for the frame, but it bothers me that it is the same frame and the same position. Did they really throw away Bart's photo to put Judy's one? Did Judy keep the original photo and throw it to the trash just to put hers? Like they show with Judy, it's important the photo of their family, but why is it any different with Bart? I say again, the photo from the beginning of the story, is Bart's photo, and even if we can guess that the photo is okay and Bart is fine, none of that is shown to us.

Okay, that was quite a text... Good night!

Ways that Judy Garrick could have been introduced that doesn't break canon and completely alienates foster children.

1.) She is not Jay and Joan's biological child - she is instead a niece or cousin of one of them and she obtained powers in ways not unlike Wally. This keeps the long-standing and important canon that Jay and Joan are infertile.

2.) She is an adopted child of both of them and again she obtained powers in similar ways to Wally. This again, maintains the important long-standing canon of Jay and Joan's inability to conceive.

3.) This is the big one; Jay does not remove all of Bart's belongings from his house upon arrival of Judy - he instead moves them to a guest bedroom thus allowing Judy the access to her old room, and makes space for the other fostered person and allowing him space in the home.