Anyway, to answer anyone who is about to ask (or has assumed by putting my name in the title of their post that I actually give a shit about this particular character) what I think of this after my recent ranting -- Sweet!!! I had Weeks 26-29 in the Donna Troy pool!
In all seriousness (and in all seriousness I really don't care much for that character) this all happened right after a fight (though she didn't do shit in it), there was no tantalizing flash of cleavage as she went down, and its been proven time and time again that no fridge can hold that woman. (Really, Kyle's reaction shouldn't be "No!" but "I know she'll be back next week, but I'm still very pissed off by the intention!") I can understand some of her fans being pissed (really, she didn't do shit in that fight, and you can tell this was to get Kyle good and pissed), but this doesn't strike me as really bad. A storyline where Donna dies and then comes back to life may as well be a storyline about Superman getting a cat out of a tree. You can do it well and interesting, and get some empathy going with the characters, but you really can't inject a lot of shock and suspense into it.
I'd say it has the positive of classifying that love triangle talk as the creators trying to mislead us, at least. Except for the sarcastic dialogue when Kyle first joined the group (Jason said "he's dreamy" about Kyle when talking to Donna, like he was teasing her over Kyle or possibly a bit jealous) that had me thinking maybe Jason carried a torch, I wasn't seeing the romantic tension. Donna and Jason tolerated each other, Kyle and Donna were friendly (but not friendly in that way), and Kyle and Jason were at each other's throats. That proves nothing, because Kyle and Jason are the sort of people who would be at each other's throats over the aisle seat in a movie theater. Really, with Kyle showing off like an ass (I swear, it seemed like they were writing Hal -- post-Parallax euphoria, perhaps?) and Jason was being his usual bright and cheerful self at the beginning its no wonder they started off badly and went to worse from there.
It is nice to see Jason being a proper asshole again. He was getting too comfortably cranky with the others.
My initial reaction was 'feh, see ya next week Donna!' I know she's going to be fine so whatever... and even if she is dead - whatever - she'll be back in a few months...
ReplyDeleteHeck, even I don't think she's dead, and I always fall for every trick in the book! I'm sure that Jason is just being manipulative as usual.
ReplyDeleteI'm more concerned about Kyle. He's not really showing to any advantage in Countdown. In fact, he's a little on the boring side. And Kyle's certainly not boring normally. But it would be nice to see him kick Jason's ass!
She needs a reusable headstone that reads "Down For Maintenance While They Work On My Origin Story"
ReplyDelete*shrugs* Feeling pretty much nothing here, and I like Donna.
Yeaaaaaah, that all pretty much sums up my reaction. I'm still more broken up over Jokester's passing.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that could have given this less weight is if she were Jean Grey.
Coming soon to a comic book store near you: the DC/Marvel event of the decade/millenium/afternoon: Donna Troy IS Jean Grey in an origin story so complicated and unwieldy that you'd never believe it, even if you could understand it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they made me not care about DT "getting killed," and I like the character.
ReplyDeleteSorry. I only meant to imply that they were TRYING to mess with you, not that they'd actually succeed.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on winning the Donna Dead Pool! If she comes back, do you have to have to return your money?
If I honestly thought DC was interested in my personal feelings about their books, I'd say this death was a peace offering.
ReplyDeleteValid point. I was more referring to the cheesy, pointless nature of how it was carried out. It was almost as cheesy as, say, including a moderator's name in a post title for the shameless purpose of getting my post linked.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Now I see it. Donna IS Jean. When one is dead the other lives. Makes perfect sense...
ReplyDeleteOf course, she's alive. Why would "Bob" have his gun set to kill?
ReplyDeleteDon´t think evolution should be used to criticise alien forms in comics.
ReplyDeleteEvolution works in weird ways, it gave us dinosaurs!
Much more confusing is the fact that so many of the humanoid aliens have five fingers, have you ever wondered why we have five fingers?
At the same time you have only identified three females in the older post when a lot of those Lanterns in the cover could have been females without a recognasible female form.
Carlos, we have five fingers, because we as humans, are descended from Devonian Era fish, that had five phalanges in their fins.
ReplyDeleteCool eh?