Happy first night of Hannukah, everyone! Chag sameach!
[SPOILER] Jade's such a fascinating character to give this fear too. Because on some level it is reasonable, she sees all these things that seem to say her presence puts the people she loves in danger (the Shadows putting a hit on her, for one thing!) - but those aren't why she runs away, she runs away because they give her an excuse to believe the worst fears she has about herself, that she's inherently corrupting and awful and selfish and that the best thing to do is go out in a blaze of glory suicide run before her will can break. It's really interesting!
And I can't really blame an eleven year old Onyx for not picking up Sensei's scam. Kids really don't have a good sense of that sort of thing, and like Algae says they can have a good sales pitch.
That said, I seriously doubt she or Onyx is going to stay there. Even putting Jason aside - which, he probably will be what pulls the curtain away on Ra's - Jade has to face the music on her family, and Onyx has her whole life ahead of her. We still have 18 episodes to go - a lot is going to change.
And as a last thing... man, the scene with Clark and Lois is really a kick in the teeth. The part that gets me most of all is Clark's "I wasted so much time" - because we know, counting him approaching Conner in Qurac, it only took him about 5 months to come around, compared to nearly ten years of brotherhood. But that's how grief works - the time you spend together seems so fleeting, and every moment you fought or didn't get along seems incredibly, obscenely long. It's a really great scene. [/SPOILER]
Karrin Blue
posted @ Sun, Nov 28, 2021 9:20:58 pm EST from 68.9.91.142