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Finally got around to seeing the Flashpoint Paradox. Very well animated and some very clever use of powers on display, but......blah. Between this, the Injustice video games and comics, and the current Forever Evil arc, it feels like "Depressing joyless crap-sack world where [x] amount of heroes have gone evil and now everyone's graphically killing each other for shock value" is the only trick DC knows how to do. It was especially gratuitous here, with pretty much every single goddamn scene with Aquaman and Wonder Woman in them ending in someone getting murdered, and IMO that's what killed it for me. None of the characters had even the slightest redemptive quality to them, which didn't make the whole war with the fate of the world at stake feel like it had any consequence, or that it's a world where "it all went wrong" and can still be salvaged. In a world where everyone's an asshole and a true-blue-paragon-of-good character like Wonder Woman is butchering children with swords (seriously, what is it with DC and their awful portrayal of Wonder Woman lately as this bloodthirsty psychopath?), then I'm rooting for the apocalypse.
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