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Dec. 21st, 2018 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raesoflightLord help me I'm back on my BttF bullshit.
I re-read the Who Is Marty Mcfly arc of the comic and I hold to my belief that it was too short for it's own good and the parallels between Irving and Citizen Brown don't hold up as well as they could because Citizen Brown was a man who had been emotionally abused and mentally warped since he was seventeen years old and Irving was just a raging ego-maniac who took his failure out on Doc by deciding to go after Marty, gaslight him and emotionally manipulate him in order to gain access to the flux capacitor as well as Marty's undying loyalty and affection. The implications of that arc and Irving as a character were not plumbed nearly as deeply as they should have been, especially it's effect on Marty's psyche. He was effectively stalked and manipulated for weeks, and it will always feel out of character for Doc to "keep Irving around" especially when the beginning of the next arc proves that Irving has learned nothing and should never be granted access to Marty, like, ever.
It's understandable that Citizen Brown became who he did under Edna's influence, but Irving had no such excuse; he was just like that. And despite external similarities the two are nothing alike, Irving is far worse and more dangerous and it will never sit right with me that the comic treats them as equally worthy of redemption.
I re-read the Who Is Marty Mcfly arc of the comic and I hold to my belief that it was too short for it's own good and the parallels between Irving and Citizen Brown don't hold up as well as they could because Citizen Brown was a man who had been emotionally abused and mentally warped since he was seventeen years old and Irving was just a raging ego-maniac who took his failure out on Doc by deciding to go after Marty, gaslight him and emotionally manipulate him in order to gain access to the flux capacitor as well as Marty's undying loyalty and affection. The implications of that arc and Irving as a character were not plumbed nearly as deeply as they should have been, especially it's effect on Marty's psyche. He was effectively stalked and manipulated for weeks, and it will always feel out of character for Doc to "keep Irving around" especially when the beginning of the next arc proves that Irving has learned nothing and should never be granted access to Marty, like, ever.
It's understandable that Citizen Brown became who he did under Edna's influence, but Irving had no such excuse; he was just like that. And despite external similarities the two are nothing alike, Irving is far worse and more dangerous and it will never sit right with me that the comic treats them as equally worthy of redemption.
