beneath all get out

Daniel loses a firm hold on 2018. When he returns to the present, things aren't where he left them. Namely, Johnny.

neither of them is ever going to be able to escape the class mentality they were born into; though he wants to, bruce will never understand what it means to not be obscenely wealthy, and selina is never going to feel secure (financially, socially, emotionally) in anything she has

how selina tends to react to bruce's attempts at emotional closeness with reflexive fight-or-flight aggression

being both extremely undersocialized teens; bruce was homeschooled and apparently exclusively around adults while selina seems to have had a largely competitive relationship with other homeless people growing up. they don't really know how to make friends, let alone know much about romantic relationships, and their simultaneous attempts at both are clumsy

bruce's god complex, how he will tend to cut Selina out of decisions if he thinks he knows her welfare better than she does

they were both forced to grow up way too fast, and got desensitized to violence early, so the threshold for tipping over into violence is so much lower for both of them. bring that to a romantic relationship and see how quickly it combusts

attitudes towards homicide are pretty key -- bruce is shown to be tempted to kill a good deal more often than your typical teen, notices this about himself, is disgusted, sets his no-killing rule; meanwhile, to selina, killing is a survival strategy, and in the grand scheme, not a huge deal. this creates conflict, especially when there is someone they both want dead.

selina resents bruce's recklessness and tendency to put a target on himself; if he really cared, he'd make sure he'd be around for her tomorrow. it's his fault people keep trying to kill him, really

bruce wants to give her a home (literally and emotionally) but selina could never let herself accept it

selina's self worth taking hit after hit as her fears that people will use her and bulldoze through her to get to bruce keep getting validated; the resentment of bruce that comes out of that

the unstoppable force of bruce's emotional sincerity vs the immovable object of selina's emotional constipation

the mutual fear between them that there is something transactional in their relationship. some day there's going to be a settling of accounts

selina babe I know love is humiliating but you can't ALWAYS push him away, some day he might just leave