» Pulpo Fiction: young justice bereft

lecinea:

pulpofiction:

I understand all this, but I just have one point… M’Gann takes longer to save Superboy than it does for the rest of the team to walk back to the ship. They’re on board, with Kal’dur getting hydrated, by the time she’s flying back.

So my feeling is that M’Gann’s range for the ship is much smaller than the distance the team can walk (walk, they were definitely walking…)

Also, regarding calling M’Gann out on her mistakes: what about “Welcome to Happy Harbor”? I mean, it ends with them all telling her she did well, but the same thing happened to Kal’dur in the India episode - team gets mad, Kal’dur proves himself, team loves Kal’dur again. 

Eh. Agree to disagree.

First of all, thank you for your reply.
I get your point, though I still think that it would’ve avoided taking a risk if M’gann just brought Kaldur to the ship herself. Especially if it was close-by, in that case wouldn’t have taken her much more time to go back to safe Superboy.

Like I said in my previous reply to kyashu, it’s probably a matter of you you think was in more danger. I thought Kaldur, Miss Martian and you guys Superboy, it’s an emotional thing, so really subjective.

Oh well, no harm done. I’m glad we could be at least civil. Hope you didn’t feel attacked by my big-ass rant xD Like I said, I needed to get it out of my system for a while now, and it’s out.
(Tough I still think the team should’ve apologized to Kaldur at the end of Alpha Male, but my problem with how the writers treat Aqualad is a completely different matter xD)

oh, no worries! didn’t feel attacked. I do my utmost to avoid frothing rabid arguments about shows i like… i mean, we all like watching it, and we all like talking about it, so as long as no one attacks the person instead of the argument, we can be one big happy fandom forever and ever and ever… aaahahahaa oh god that’s naive.

However, I DEFINITELY agree with you that the writers shaft Kal’dur a lot. He basically functions as a place-holding character in the leadership position, for the time when he either leaves or dies (my bet is on dying. I feel like the writers would have very few issues killing him off) to make way for Robin to become leader. And the fact that his role in the narrative structure makes his fate pre-determined makes me very sad, because it kind of indicates that the writers don’t or won’t care to invest a lot of time in Kal’dur, because he’s going to be somehow removed anyway. I’ve also noticed that none of the other characters have any sort development endgames in the way Kal’dur does.
And the frustration is doubled/compounded because he’s a person of color. Blerp.