ziggbot:gailsimone:ziggbot:Yeah, because forcing two women...

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Yeah, because forcing two women who have never met before to marry because you want to have claim over both of them is perfect.

How did she 'force' them to marry? She proposed. Later, we see that Knockout accepted.

How did she 'force' anyone?

Knockout. And did Liana?

Either Scandal forced (yes, you can force someone out of manipulation or simply unknowing, dumb love pressure) both women to marry each other along with her without letting them get to know each other first, or Liana got shoved to the side in favor of Scandal's resurrected flame.

Even the idea of Scandal having the gol to propose like an idiot to both women right after a large traumatic event, and not suggesting a dating period first, or hell, a get-to-know-you session, befuddles me. Had I been Liana, I would have told Scandal to go have fun with her old girlfriend, who she obviously still has feelings for, seeing as she went to hell and back to get her, and shove it.

I have no issue with three-way relationships. Everyone can love each other equally, and the relationship can blossom into a beautiful thing, but you can't have one woman, because she feels like it, decide to marry two women who don't know each other because throughout the entire arc she's been an indecisive moron.

This ending reeked of last minute shove ins. Either like Simone forgot something, or that she was trying to fit in as much gushy mushy goo goo love as she could before she got cancelled. (See: Why the fuck is Bane falling in love so easily and asking to 'mate'?)

The fact is, the way Scandal acted through the course of the arc, ever since she got the damn card, she doesn't deserve either of them.

Think of it like this: If it was a man how would it look?

The same?  I don't see how gender would have changed this scene at all. I would happily write this scene with dudes.

I didn't 'shove anything in,' as I say, go look, there's foreshadowing for this moment several issues in advance.

And again,  it seems like you are just going by this panel, or maybe this scene. But it's not like we haven't spent a LOT of time on Scandal's two loves. And the story of Liana essentially stops with Scandal's proposal.  Everything else is pure speculation here…which is why I don't understand the point, it's talking about something not at all on the page, not even implied.

Look, there's a deliberate structure to the entire series and an ending I always knew we would get to. It's not 'mushy mushy love' stuff…for one, who said Bane was in love? Right to his very last time seeing Spencer, he doesn't mention anything about love, barely understands the concept at all. He says the noises she makes bring up a protective reflex, and that's dangerous. Is that really love?

Here's the structure: Team of hopeless losers consistently find that the world says it has no place for them, no room at all. Citizens hate and fear them, heroes brutalize them, other villains mock and attack them. They lose most fights, they turn on each other routinely.

And just when, JUST when there is a small glimmer of hope and happiness for all of them (expressed in two page segments), JUST where they find friendship, companionship, and a place in the world, THAT's when they lose everything.

If they didn't know what happiness COULD be, then losing it all means very little.

If the story doesn't work for you, that's fine, but this is the way the book was always supposed to end, regardless of the cast or the particulars.