Post by papazero on Jul 24, 2009 11:53:08 GMT -5
Not sure that anyone has made any mention of this anywhere else online but this really caught my eye -
3:06
"Where did you get your take on Barry? He seems different." Johns: Barry is in a different place in life than he was, I don't want to spoil it.
I was a bit uncomfortable with how out of character Barry Allen was in Rebirth but figured I'd let it ride since the story still has nearly everything behind the curtain. With this in mind I had hoped that there would be some reasonable explanation once the story unfolded - and that remains a possibility. But Johns' comment doesn't bode well for the kind of resolution I was hoping to see. Being "in a different place" in one's life sounds more like executive editorial rational for conjuring a completely new character in light of the differences we now see. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm the fossil in this situation - treasuring intrinsic elements of a character that never belonged to me... In fact, I believe a writer has lisence to take it where they want as long as it feels natural - but it's kind of dissappointing if they are in fact gutting him and hoisting him up the flag pole merely because he is alledgedly the "most easily explained character under the mantle."
The "different place in his life" doesn't really seem to gel when you take into consideration the fact that Rebirth is fluidly using flasbacks of Barry Allen that seem consistant with the series characterization. This may all have something to do with the idea that some set of circumstances changed his personality (the most easily recognizeable difference being his parental history) and made him as we see him in Rebirth... but this change in his history still seems like a device for the purpose of changing the character rather than a end unto itself. The only story outcome I see as plausible for Johns to take is for Flash to correct the timeline refreshing all that came before. This would also serve the end of Flash being the "policing corps" of the timeline, not that I'm advocating Flash taking up Booster Gold's role.
3:06
"Where did you get your take on Barry? He seems different." Johns: Barry is in a different place in life than he was, I don't want to spoil it.
I was a bit uncomfortable with how out of character Barry Allen was in Rebirth but figured I'd let it ride since the story still has nearly everything behind the curtain. With this in mind I had hoped that there would be some reasonable explanation once the story unfolded - and that remains a possibility. But Johns' comment doesn't bode well for the kind of resolution I was hoping to see. Being "in a different place" in one's life sounds more like executive editorial rational for conjuring a completely new character in light of the differences we now see. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm the fossil in this situation - treasuring intrinsic elements of a character that never belonged to me... In fact, I believe a writer has lisence to take it where they want as long as it feels natural - but it's kind of dissappointing if they are in fact gutting him and hoisting him up the flag pole merely because he is alledgedly the "most easily explained character under the mantle."
The "different place in his life" doesn't really seem to gel when you take into consideration the fact that Rebirth is fluidly using flasbacks of Barry Allen that seem consistant with the series characterization. This may all have something to do with the idea that some set of circumstances changed his personality (the most easily recognizeable difference being his parental history) and made him as we see him in Rebirth... but this change in his history still seems like a device for the purpose of changing the character rather than a end unto itself. The only story outcome I see as plausible for Johns to take is for Flash to correct the timeline refreshing all that came before. This would also serve the end of Flash being the "policing corps" of the timeline, not that I'm advocating Flash taking up Booster Gold's role.