...I...honestly don't know how to feel about this. I did like the idea of Norman getting a redemption arc and all, but...who's going to Goblin now? Someone has to be a Goblin...
So basically this is like that episode of Star Trek where a transporter accident splits Kirk into Good Kirk and Bad Kirk, only instead of the message being that both 'halves' are required to make a complete individual, now it's that if you can split all your 'evil bits' into a separate being and kill them... you should? How Doc Savage.
Like, part of what made Norman bad was his abusive upbringing, so does he not remember that now or something?
Well, this certainly was a story which existed. I am surprised, only that Norman neither died nor became the Green Goblin full-time permanently again, and the "sins" of the Goblin are somehow "destroyed" even though by the end they were a free-floating possession entity capable of passing between the two hosts with a simple head bonk or hand wave.
Which, truth be told, is much less interesting than "Norman is a genuinely mentally ill person with a long history of succumbing to his illness" because while turning the Goblin into a separate entity capable of transferring itself into other hosts is very comics, it's also an easy out for "Peter defeated it with the power of his innate 'being Spider-Man' and it died in midair" as a handwavy solution.
Especially since we know it will never stick permanently. Somehow, at some point, the Goblin will return. At least when it was just part of Norman's illness, it was unpredictably under the surface...
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Date: 2024-07-31 08:37 pm (UTC)Like, part of what made Norman bad was his abusive upbringing, so does he not remember that now or something?
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Date: 2024-07-31 10:54 pm (UTC)I am surprised, only that Norman neither died nor became the Green Goblin full-time permanently again, and the "sins" of the Goblin are somehow "destroyed" even though by the end they were a free-floating possession entity capable of passing between the two hosts with a simple head bonk or hand wave.
Which, truth be told, is much less interesting than "Norman is a genuinely mentally ill person with a long history of succumbing to his illness" because while turning the Goblin into a separate entity capable of transferring itself into other hosts is very comics, it's also an easy out for "Peter defeated it with the power of his innate 'being Spider-Man' and it died in midair" as a handwavy solution.
Especially since we know it will never stick permanently. Somehow, at some point, the Goblin will return. At least when it was just part of Norman's illness, it was unpredictably under the surface...
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Date: 2024-08-01 03:45 am (UTC)Why was Peter able to defeat the sins with his innate goodness now when it never worked before?
What happened to Peter's head being full of brainwashing?
Why am I even thinking about this mess so much?
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