#ichyg

the looks are some hefty, weighted “what could have been-” looks. 

Artemis looks at Will, and his cool and balanced retired-from-the-hero-game life and awesome kid and great dad skills, wondering what could have been if Wally hadn’t poofed.  

Will looks at Artemis, being absolutely fantastic with Lian, wondering what could have been if Jade had never left -what could be if Jade comes back. 

so i finally watched early warning and... im not shook? im not enraged? i’m just kind of like “welp that was an interesting episode at times”. 

Here are thoughts:

Good

get to see a presumably latina meta-teen (Lorena Marquez, perhaps?)

Artemis and Tara bonding moment over shared trauma

Zatanna’s (not) in the house 

Not So Good

the violet & harper scene just felt randomly tossed in with no build up at all narratively, poorly executed, but not totally episode/series ruining for me. the writers were lazy in a way that justifiably hurt fans.

if i had to write a self-destructive scene for those two, it wouldn’t have started at the beach. it’d be a school scene first, then the beach. 

At lunch, Violet would be thinking about taking off their hijab in an attempt to distance themselves from Gabrielle, sitting with Fred and Tara and Harper while Fred carried the conversation (haven’t heard enough from him in a few eps). Harper would have been taking sips from a nondescript water bottle and making faces as though it tasted bad (alcohol). They’d lock eyes, and know something was up. That’s why they go to the beach. 

There is no gun. 

the alcohol filled water bottle gets tossed between harper’s hands as she talks about her stupid dad; maybe he’s homophobic. maybe he’s a drunk. probably both. violet would take off the hijab and say that they don’t feel like this is them anymore. Harper would offer a drink. Violet would take it. 

they’d get to the point of being belligerent, someone’d report them, and that’s when Bethany finds them and drags them home. 

BUT instead of violet/harper drama, i would have rather seen a scene of Joan’s funeral, considering i think she deserves it. would have been a good flash fam moment and we’d see how wally’s parents are lookin these days

additionally, would have enjoyed more of Zatanna v. Klarion action since the gal just used Fate’s magic. also: where’s fate? we just saw him in the first half of s3. where’d he go? what’d i miss?