I do hate the "meta-hate" subplot, if only because it's been so poorly handled and extremely inconsistent. If we were going to try to write it in a more consistent and "realistic" way, we'd have to cut out 90% of the travelling Vanguard does.
The trip into the U.S., for instance, when the team went to Nevada? Uh-uh. Impossible. How the hell can an outlawed team from an outlawed nation fly an unauthorized jet over U.S. airspace without being noticed or shot down? I just know someone's going to come on here and say something about Vanguard's plane having some kind of "cloaking device" or something that disguises the plane as a passenger plane, or some other kind of techno-thingie that's supposed to work like magic -- but how likely is it that a two-bit company on a tiny Caribbean island is going to have access to technology that the most advanced, most powerful nation on EARTH does not have access to and which cannot be circumvented by U.S. technology? Face it -- if Vanguard's world has more advanced technology than our own world, then the technology held by the U.S. government would be even more advanced than that. So in reality Vanguard's travel would be limited in the extreme. No quick trips to Britain or the U.S.
Maybe a trip to the Dominican Republic, Martinique, or Venezuela might work, but even that is pushing it.
So in effect the whole "hunted metas" and "meta-hate" thing is a sham already. A complete farce. And it's something that was effectively thrown out already once the team began to work on a global scale. I'm in favour of simply ignoring it and concentrating on the stories themselves, or getting the team genuinely "cleared" of wrongdoing somehow. In any case, I'm planning on just ignoring any "meta-hate" stuff from this point on. As far as I'm concerned, the team is just a team of adventurers/heroes who go where the action is. They're not the X-Men, they're definitely NOT the JLA (or even the MBL), and not even the Challengers of the Unknown
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So in effect I'm saying we should play up the team's strengths and drop the weaknesses that are little more than a hindrance on storytelling.
I'd really like to hear from the other posters on this point.
Active ones, I mean. Chewy, I know you always have an opinion, but if you really want a say in things, you should start writing in the stories on a regular basis again...
