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runespoor7 (runespoor7) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-07 21:34:00

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char: batgirl/cassandra cain, char: batman/bruce wayne, creator: dylan horrocks, creator: rick leonardi, series: one perfect moment week, title: batgirl

Cass Cain's one perfect moment
From Batgirl #50.

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bluefall
2009-06-08 04:30 pm UTC (link)

Except that this is the climax of an entire storyarc about all of Cass' problems, during which Cass has gotten more and more stressed and unhappy, and then immediately after her resolution with Bats, without any kind of resolution for anything else, we see her flying away all cheerful as the day she was born and all of those problems are filed away as "solved," with Bruce explaining that this is the only therapy she could understand. There is no other method, no help for her Black Wind angst or her fears of inadequacy or her lack of communication with Babs, because all of that would be therapy, and the only kind of therapy Cass understands is beating up Bruce. And then on we go to the next storyline and none of Cass' issues are brought up again. They were all somehow magically laid to rest in that single moment of beating up her father figure, or at least we're all meant to believe as much, because certainly the characters seem to.

Which is absurd, and insulting, and a massive disservice to all characters involved.

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	runespoor7 2009-06-08 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	No, Cass being unable to read is brought up in Batgirl #54. It's an excuse to break the bond between Babs and her by editorial mandate, probably, but you can't argue that Cass' problems are magically solved by this point. (And before that, Batgirl #53 is Steph as Robin, and #51-52... yeah, I got nothing on 51-52. It's got pretty art.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-06-08 04:47 pm UTC (link)

Cass' emotional problems, from this arc, are all solved at the conclusion of this arc by the single act of fighting with Bruce. Regardless of the fact that 80% of them were unrelated to Bruce.

Yes, the fact that she doesn't know how to read shows up again as a problem shortly thereafter, but it's a separate event, a *new* problem. For a comparable issue, imagine an arc where Two-Face recruits Scarecrow and Croc, and the three of them go on a rampage. Bruce, after eight issues of exhaustive combat and detective work, brings in Croc. He then flies off into the night smiling, and Two-Face and Scarecrow aren't even mentioned again. Then, four issues later, Scarecrow shows up once more, in a scheme completely unrelated to Two-Face or Croc or anything he was doing last time, after not a single mention in the intervening issues. That's what happened with Cass, here.

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runespoor7
2009-06-08 05:01 pm UTC (link)

Regardless of the fact that 80% of them were unrelated to Bruce.

How? Batman is the one keeping her from having any normal flirtation with Superboy, Batman is the one sending her on a cruise where she won't be on holiday...

I don't view Cass breaking away from Babs as an entirely new problem. In both cases the issue is communication. When she fights Batman, she has the means to defend herself (or to be the aggressor), and they can reach a point where they both win; in Batgirl #54, Babs uses words against her, Cass is hurt, and they both lose.

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