>>99079475>Selina shouldn't even be able to see them coming.Hell, even if King cooked up every excuse to explain Bruce
Bat and Selina
Cat capability by having the people under control fighting back by holding back or whatever, it doesn't actually explain Ivy's incapability. She's intelligent enough to set all this up, but not use it.
Her not knowing the intricacies of Kryptonian abilities and Speed Force does nothing to reason why she'd even throw 3 Flashes one after the other in striking range for Selina after the first failed.
If she didn't want them entering the house she could have just had the Flashes stack shit in their way before they even arrived, or fling shit at them from a distance until they had to retreat. There's not much in Batman's arsenal that could deal with mobile human machine guns that can turn local garages into ammo.
Then she says she's trying to be nice so she's letting them conveniently roam and not roughing them up, but also seems to not want them to go see the boy's absence so why even let them have the option? Failing the hero arsenal angle due to hypnosis loopholes, how did they ever get to park in front of the lawn or even enter the door when she could have covered everything with vines?
At the very least Bruce and Selina are later caught, but at the same time it just goes to show King could have skipped the bullshit but didn't. Also to beat someone to the chase who might similarly read too into this as an allegory of King's own experience in the CIA having control, losing control, going out of control and showing off, getting people killed, lying to one self, redemption after trauma from being enlisted in a war, bla bla bla, that'd be neato. Super keen.
IF it didn't have the elegance, nuance and art quality of that one guy's mind control porn parody. Can't be doing with this.
