"This, I think, shows up why this kind of thing bugs me -- it's not a twist squick, it's not a unreality squick, it's an invalidation squick! When I get hit with something that invalidates what I'm emotionally invested in, it ticks me off. It's not darker'n'edgier, it's not cutting edge, it's lazy storytelling pretending to be deep. When it screws me over in the process then I'm not going to be praising it later."
That having been said, I don't think LoM/A2A taking place in a post-death reality invalidates them. Other problems, yes, but not invalidation. Everyone there is working through issues that they need to handle before they move on, and they're in it together, helping each other through it. Gene's need to be the copper that he didn't have the chance to be in life being so strong that it essentially created that reality not only for him but for a bunch of other people that needed it? I think that fundamentally defines his character -- it doesn't invalidate it.
"This, I think, shows up why this kind of thing bugs me -- it's not a twist squick, it's not a unreality squick, it's an invalidation squick! When I get hit with something that invalidates what I'm emotionally invested in, it ticks me off. It's not darker'n'edgier, it's not cutting edge, it's lazy storytelling pretending to be deep. When it screws me over in the process then I'm not going to be praising it later."
That having been said, I don't think LoM/A2A taking place in a post-death reality invalidates them. Other problems, yes, but not invalidation. Everyone there is working through issues that they need to handle before they move on, and they're in it together, helping each other through it. Gene's need to be the copper that he didn't have the chance to be in life being so strong that it essentially created that reality not only for him but for a bunch of other people that needed it? I think that fundamentally defines his character -- it doesn't invalidate it.
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