Could this have been solved by having one writer instead of however many they did have? It may very well have, as long as it wasn't Willingham. Because yes, exactly, the Bernard thing is Willingham's problem in a nutshell. When a character has appeared four times and is a completely different character each time... that reads like badfic, where a writer pairs characters together because the actors would be pretty together, and strips them of their individuality.
Honestly, things really do proceed smoothly between the *other* writers, as these things go. I really do think that if someone like Dixon or Lewis had been on Robin and Batman for War Games none of us would be *half* so pissed.
The really awful creeping feeling I have is that Steph's death served no purpose within the universe; that her death was a purely meta-level thing that tied in with the Red Hood thing, to ensure that people on the meta-level could still point fingers at Batman's culpability, at the "cost" of his crusade.
*sigh* Yeah. Really the equivalent of going housefly hunting with a bazooka.
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Date: 2005-04-06 04:16 pm (UTC)Honestly, things really do proceed smoothly between the *other* writers, as these things go. I really do think that if someone like Dixon or Lewis had been on Robin and Batman for War Games none of us would be *half* so pissed.
The really awful creeping feeling I have is that Steph's death served no purpose within the universe; that her death was a purely meta-level thing that tied in with the Red Hood thing, to ensure that people on the meta-level could still point fingers at Batman's culpability, at the "cost" of his crusade.
*sigh* Yeah. Really the equivalent of going housefly hunting with a bazooka.