@EnSabahNurX said:
@k2: Well emotionally neither is ready for a relationship and since she is joining avengers academy so they probably just wanted to cut ties since it's a plot they won't be able to touch upon for a while.
Also Laura is a minimalist she can normally be compassionate but normally the emotional problems don't involve her like julian's feelings for her so she responded very aloof. Besides she does have a streak for being blunt. And finally it was probably to demonstrate that Laura still doesn't know how to relate appropriately when her own emotions are involved
There is also that thing you sometimes need to do to force someone to move on. Being cruel is sometimes the only way to get someone to force themselves to move on, sacrifice your own happiness for the sake of the other person. I still need to read the issue but there is always a subtext that doesn't always come off incredibly clear on the first read.
I read it already a few times (the ending part). I don't think it fit with Laura's character, and I realized that it doesn't even fit with Issue #18 (in which she spoke to him about her view on things and they had the almost-kiss scene). There, it was like she was interested. Here...it seems like she changed her mind between issues.
Her reaction doesn't suggest a lack of knowing how to deal with emotions. It was supposed to show that she DID know how to deal with them, knowing what she wanted. But her reaction showed a complete lack of concern for her friends, which is not Laura.
Yeah, sometimes you need to be cruel. Still didn't think it fit with Laura. And in overall, this ending was forced to happen too quickly. If she was losing interest, it should have been touched upon elsewhere in the comic. I really don't think either character was emotionally unprepared for a relationship. Laura has come a long way from the start of the series, and the next step would have been something like this. For Julian's part, I suspect this was done as another reason to push him down the path of being a villain, which I dislike. He's my other favorite character, and I have read him from his first appearance to his latest...and the way writers use him as a punching back makes me sad. I think he would have been a great person to help Laura in her self-growth, if he was written true to character. He had a closeknit group of friends because he was a really good friend to them. He paid attention to what when on in their lives, and he was always there for them to give a hug or advice. Read the Hellions mini-series if you want to see what makes me say that. I'm not just saying 'oh it's always the writer's fault'--I blame the writing because his later appearances sometimes make me cringe, they are such poor representations of his character. They don't represent a person gradually changing throughout time--or changing in reaction to something horrible that has happened. They are just day and night changes, done by people who haven't read Academy X or NXM and think 'school bully, alright I can do this'.
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