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Originally Posted by Lava Boss
Turning Firefly into a megalomaniac who talks too much (including revealling his entire origin to enemies for no great reason), has an army of robots and engages ninjas in absurd cheerleader formations didn't ruin him?
C.C., Storm Shadow and Zartan I could handle. Once it got to the Baroness (and Hama fudged again by having her losing her evil nature) and Destro...that was too much. And that's the villains, add Hawk and Stalker to that, too. Too much soap opera...
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Ah, I see where our opinions differ then. I
like the soap opera.
Also, the school of villainy I come from is all about talking too much ("monologuing" as The Incredibles called it). And I still maintain that he was the same person he'd always been. When he boasts about how he found a way out of the freighter, but chose not to share it, thus condemning all his fellows to a slow death-- That strikes me as vintage Firefly. Oh, and he always had a penchant for talking too much. Recall issue 28 (or thereabouts), when he's wandering through the swamp after being dumped by Cobra Commander. He's talking to
himself in that scene!
I'm not saying all these changes were good. I didn't like the Baroness as a good guy either, but I could buy it in Destro and Zartan. I didn't like Firefly's green costume, and as I've said, his ninjafication was unnecessary. But, I really don't think any of that ruined the characters. They just went off in unexpected directions.
And I did call the scorpion maneuver "goofy". I'm with you on that.