#this arc is weird

[malfiora]

Recently read the Impostor Jason arc of '96 Nightwing, and besides being incredibly weird, it got surprisingly deep –

– like this scene, in which psychiatrist Clancy has to spell out for Dick that Jason is impersonating him because idolizes him (and Dick had gone missing for a year because Infinite Crisis shenanigans) and he legit Doesn't Get It™️,

and this one a second later, in which Clancy asks if Nightwing (Dick) lowkey wants to retire and sees Jason as an out...which is strangely parallel to how he ponders quitting being Robin in "The New Teen Titans" and eventually sees Jason as an out/successor,

and this one where Jason is trapped inside a mind-reading spider slug alien thing (like I said, fucking bizarre), and his subconscious takes the form of Dick/Nightwing (left) because he thinks big brother can save him. Bonus points for projection Dick being pretty mean to Jay, which goes to show how Jay thinks of their relationship,

and how even under duress Jason subconsciously refuses to reveal Nightwing's secret identity.

I hesitate to say this arc is good, but it's fun??? and weirdly deep sometimes. (Shoutout to the line of symmetry between Dick and Jason going up against a pair of metahuman twins with opposite powers, and one's a hothead while the other is cunning.)

But GOD was it strange.

for safekeeping

[komakitigerdrop]

So Finder is really going there, huh...

[espeoradar]

lmao this arc has weird continuity/logic like kaiba passed out flying his jet because jou was awakening his dragon, and they animated 3 flying glowing orbs in the monster place, but he wasnt in the scene?? does this mean yugi randomly blacked out when kaiba awakened his dragon?? and if not, why was kaiba affected by jous at all?? and most important does this mean that kaiba can successfully pilot a jet /in his sleep/???