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Oh how I hate the Legends episode!!


So GL realized that the world they're in isn't reality, that a nuclear strike had destroyed the world, fine...

But they just go and attack Ray who's creating the world, no provocation, nothing...

They have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER that the citizens are real people, in fact their reaction when they appear "You're real!?"

Now I can see if they knew that these people were real, and wanted to save them, but at the point where they're fighting Ray, they have no clue...

but in the end, trying to keep up the illusion while battling the justice league kills him...

That is a truly rotten thing for the JL to have done, I mean they killed a (seriously deformed) kid who at that point had only created a reality for himself to help himself cope with the fact the world had been destroyed...

Yes they saved a handful of people, but that was purely incidental...

I mean they just friggin killed a kid, who was (seemingly) doing no harm, attacked him with no provocation, and they call themselves heroes...

Seems totally out of character to me, seems to me it would have been a better end if they had simply confronted Ray, and asked him about what had happened, talked to him, gotten an explanation, then ended by leaving him, allowing him to simply cope using his fantasy world, and of course dropped the point where the people are real...

heck, it could have ended with them returning to their world, and taking Ray with them, and setting it up so that he could write a NEW justice guild series based on his imagination, heck with his powers he could live a completely normal life by simply changing his own appearance...

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Just got done watching the episode for the first time. What I don't understand is if in fact the survivors were real how did they manage to survive without eating or sleeping? I wouldn't think that Roy's telepathic powers alone would be enough to sustain necessary health and nutrients for over 40 years.

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I wouldn't think that Roy's telepathic powers alone would be enough to sustain necessary health and nutrients for over 40 years.


Why not? He created entire beings with memories and their own wills.

Can't stop the signal.

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All I'm going to say is this was a really well done episode. Would make a really good movie.

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Why not? He created entire beings with memories and their own wills.

Yeah but at the same time these were fictional beings. Essentially the body needs things that telepathy alone could provide. Roy may've been able to create the illusion of eating, sleeping, and good-health but that's the thing, it's all an illusion.

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It was not mere illusion. Roy had warped and changed reality to his will.

If it was all just an illusion, the Justice League would not be able to interact physically with the world or the people in it.

Can't stop the signal.

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