One of my beefs with that maxi-series (remember when they used to call 12-issue limited series that?) was that they gratuitously used the "slippery slope" argument to push everything to its "logical" conclusion. It made for interesting reading, but the way changes occurred in rapid succession with one another felt so uncomfortably deterministic and not all that true to life. This statement may sound completely absurd on the face of it -- after all, we're talking about superhero comic-books, here -- but when every facet of the plot is moving things in a certain direction, and there is no counter-movement, it begins to lack a certain degree of believability.
It's like the abuse of the metaphor of the thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters and the idea that eventually an entire Shakespearean play will be produced, given enough time and random chance. People usually use this argument to explain why there is no need for a creator. Unfortunately this argument doesn't really take into consideration the factor of entropy -- in the typing monkeys metaphor entropy would be represented by each monkey hitting the "delete" key (on a keyboard rather than a typewriter, natch) nearly as many times as an ordinary key is hit, naturally causing the probability of an entire Shakespearean play to become even more astronomically less likely to be typed out by random chance.
Hm. I'm not sure where I was going with that, but it's 5:30 AM and I've been up all night, so my brain isn't working at its optimum capacity.
Oh, right -- I was talking about my problem with the plot movement of Squadron Supreme. But I'll stop now.
