>>100541808Okay so back in 1994-5 or thereabouts Emerald Twilight happened and Hal went off the deep end and became a villian for a while because tragedy and one bad day and all that shit.
Version One internet (like, the days of compuserve and prodigy old) went apeshit over this and formed Hal's Emerald Attack Team, where they'd mail (physical snail mail, mind you) death threats to DC's writers and editors.
Then it got pointed out to them that they were basically the first generation of spergs and they changed their name to "Hal's Emerald Advancement Team" and pretended like they were really just rational people that didn't flip their shit about of a dumb comic book arc.
So we got a bunch of dumb shit to appease those retards and now instead of Hal being driven mad from the loss of his supporting cast and being turned into a really compelling villian, we get writers coming in and doing retcons
and saying it was really a giant space cockroach that did it! Hal's a good boi! He dindu nuffin! And also he's the best ever.
And now, 23 years later, here we are again and a new generation of autists hasn't learned a god damn thing from history and they don't even want to. I think shit like gay Iceman is a hack move and Riri is hamfisted as hell but their solutions (when they even provide any) just result in another space cockroach retcon at best.
