As for Hal, this is the same problem I've had with Geoff Johns' Hal, but far worse: he's the Hal that everybody who hates Hal thinks Hal is supposed to be.
Which, weirdly, puts him in exactly the same territory as the portrayals of Peter Parker post-OMD by Quesada's Marvel — they're intentionally amplifying all the worst traits of the characters, and yet, they honestly believe that this will make us like those characters MORE, precisely because THEY like those characters more when they're acting like inexcusable assholes. That's where it crosses the line from certain writers being bad storytellers into them being bad people.
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Date: 2011-06-18 12:50 am (UTC)Which, weirdly, puts him in exactly the same territory as the portrayals of Peter Parker post-OMD by Quesada's Marvel — they're intentionally amplifying all the worst traits of the characters, and yet, they honestly believe that this will make us like those characters MORE, precisely because THEY like those characters more when they're acting like inexcusable assholes. That's where it crosses the line from certain writers being bad storytellers into them being bad people.