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I like Doom Patrol enough, but I think the run it takes from tries a bit too hard to recapture the Morrison weirdness, which is really freaking hard because it's Grant Morrison. I'm glad Flex showed up because it draws more attention to his solo book, which is the sort of silver age-tinged post-modern interesting stuff I'd like to see more of on the site.
People seem to think you can only make the settings more interesting if you make the heroes bastards or make the teen characters more troubled than they'd normally be. Stuff like that.
I never read the comics admittedly. But I liked that it gave really respectful take on the mental illnesses that might come with/from superpowers. And also just the ways in which you can become a better hero by just loving yourself as a person more. I feel like a lot of stories forget that they are people behind the spandex.
I'm a sucker for friendship and loving yourself themes. It's kinda sweet to see it in a show that on the surface is edgy weirdness.
That said I like flashy bam smack pow roleplays better than stuff that goes all psychological. So love watching Doom Patrol would absolutely not roleplay it.
Speaking of superheroes and unpopular opinions. As my Rainbow League jokes indicate. Not all superheroes are straight.
Seriously if you can accept time travel, alternate realities, plasma rays, and superpowers. You can accept that the people in spandex hitting things in the name of justice don't only bang people of the opposite gender.