it goes down so much smoother if you look at the whole thing as a very mild AU written mainly for the author's personal amusement.
Heh.
Right now, I'm mostly just taking the animated version of UtRH as my canon and everything else as interesting to know but not necessary if I don't like it.
The later scenes between Dick and Jason are just played like two guys who know all of each other's buttons, and deal poorly with not having Bruce to orient themselves against.
Interesting, because even though they apparently didn't really spend a lot of time together before Jason died, I can still imagine that to be true, simply because of their roles and probable insecurities resulting from that.
They also have a scene that's a very direct reference to a famous one between Bruce and the Joker, which is...also very interesting.
I was poking around somewhere reading and someone said that Red Hood is Nightwing's nemesis, which, I don't know if that's true? but it would make the parallel more on the nose relevant.
That said, Judd Winick is the guy who decided John Walsh needed to be in his comic, and then played it completely straight (Dick is a huge fanboy, apparently); what are you gonna do.
Wait, that's the America's Most Wanted host guy? *facepalm*
The parallel in that case (one of them anyway) was Batman offering to help a rival go straight, and the antagonist saying, not without some regret, that it's too late (the side-by-side scans and some discussion of this question are here). It's more like they held the same relative positions in a vaguely paralleled story than that Jason and Joker have all that much in common.
*nod*
That's part of what I find interesting - Jason knows what lines he's crossed and how there's no going back. What I haven't decided yet is how much he realizes that the no going back part is as much on him (probably more!) as it is on Bruce and Dick et al.
That reminds me, I need to finish my Red Hood costume meta post. 'Cos it's not like I'm moving tomorrow or starting a new job or anything...
hee! Good luck with everything! And I'll be interested in reading the post when you finally make it.
Heh.
Right now, I'm mostly just taking the animated version of UtRH as my canon and everything else as interesting to know but not necessary if I don't like it.
The later scenes between Dick and Jason are just played like two guys who know all of each other's buttons, and deal poorly with not having Bruce to orient themselves against.
Interesting, because even though they apparently didn't really spend a lot of time together before Jason died, I can still imagine that to be true, simply because of their roles and probable insecurities resulting from that.
They also have a scene that's a very direct reference to a famous one between Bruce and the Joker, which is...also very interesting.
I was poking around somewhere reading and someone said that Red Hood is Nightwing's nemesis, which, I don't know if that's true? but it would make the parallel more on the nose relevant.
That said, Judd Winick is the guy who decided John Walsh needed to be in his comic, and then played it completely straight (Dick is a huge fanboy, apparently); what are you gonna do.
Wait, that's the America's Most Wanted host guy? *facepalm*
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*nod*
That's part of what I find interesting - Jason knows what lines he's crossed and how there's no going back. What I haven't decided yet is how much he realizes that the no going back part is as much on him (probably more!) as it is on Bruce and Dick et al.
That reminds me, I need to finish my Red Hood costume meta post. 'Cos it's not like I'm moving tomorrow or starting a new job or anything...
hee! Good luck with everything! And I'll be interested in reading the post when you finally make it.
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