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I can now forgive Heath Corson for the writing of Justice League: War and Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, because Assault on Arkham was awesome to a degree that kinda outshone Son of Batman and Batman vs. Robin. Corson got the dialogue right on all the characters I knew (Batman, Harley Quinn, the Joker, the Riddler, Amanda Waller, the Penguin, Captain Boomerang, etc.) and did what seemed like a damn good job on the others (Floyd Lawson, King Shark, Killer Frost, Black Spider). The story was pretty well plotted and the pace was great. I'm good with the writing.
However, tomorrow when I go to flight school I am going to have to tell my instructor about this, because towards the end my thoughts were occupied with 'wow, the Gotham PD has one hell of a budget if they can get what appears to be a military-grade personnel carrier helicopter- wait, Harley's only moving one control in the emergency effort not to hit the building- well, it looks like a realistic cyclic for modern models of helicopter, and they're not changing altitude- and it IS a glass cockpit with lots of unlabeled controls, maybe the autopilot is controlling the collective- nonono, dude, you grazed the building, that's going to damage several of your rotor blades and affect your flight- okay, she can't find the gas pedal so she doesn't know where the throttle is and she's not fiddling with the tail rotor- I'm seeing what looks sort of like LTE spinning but there's too much control to it- okay, they've crashed and that's fine, but the tail rotor is on the right of the craft rather than the left, what country was that helicopter built in? I need to rewind and see what direction the main rotors were turning to see whether they were being consistent or just careless'.
(This is being shelved alongside my reaction to a rewatch of Iron Man in which my reaction to Tony taking off for the first time was 'Um... isn't Malibu within spitting distance of LAX? Tony's going through class B airspace without even having JARVIS get clearance. The FAA is going to have guys waiting on his doorstep by the time he gets home.')
However, tomorrow when I go to flight school I am going to have to tell my instructor about this, because towards the end my thoughts were occupied with 'wow, the Gotham PD has one hell of a budget if they can get what appears to be a military-grade personnel carrier helicopter- wait, Harley's only moving one control in the emergency effort not to hit the building- well, it looks like a realistic cyclic for modern models of helicopter, and they're not changing altitude- and it IS a glass cockpit with lots of unlabeled controls, maybe the autopilot is controlling the collective- nonono, dude, you grazed the building, that's going to damage several of your rotor blades and affect your flight- okay, she can't find the gas pedal so she doesn't know where the throttle is and she's not fiddling with the tail rotor- I'm seeing what looks sort of like LTE spinning but there's too much control to it- okay, they've crashed and that's fine, but the tail rotor is on the right of the craft rather than the left, what country was that helicopter built in? I need to rewind and see what direction the main rotors were turning to see whether they were being consistent or just careless'.
(This is being shelved alongside my reaction to a rewatch of Iron Man in which my reaction to Tony taking off for the first time was 'Um... isn't Malibu within spitting distance of LAX? Tony's going through class B airspace without even having JARVIS get clearance. The FAA is going to have guys waiting on his doorstep by the time he gets home.')
