Are you sure? Read this thread. Whether they believe it to be true or not, everyone is talking about it and everyone is thinking about it. Ergo, it is serving exactly the purpose misdirection is supposed to serve. It's making you think about something that something unimportant, so the really important stuff can pop up and surprise you later.
I said it would be pointless on a personal readership level.
I can't tell you how to react to how this turns out, and that's only compounded by the fact that I don't know how it's going to turn out. What's more, I don't know that Morrison could provide anything that would satisfy you. Believe me, critical examination is great, but I get the impression that your posts are less about honest critical examination and more about that you're dedicated to disliking it regardless.
I'm not dedicated to disliking this story. I've made my opinions known throughout this thread. Somewhere i praised part 4, i think it was, where it's revealed Batman had some sort of back-up plan in case something happened to his mind. I believe i went as far to say that part 4 was the best issue yet.
But alot of my problems lie in the pacing of Morrison's entire run. Things come and go at a speed that's too quick for me to care. The end of "Batman & Son" just popped out of nowhere. Bruce has a son. Then he gets blown up. The End. Of course, it wasn't the end of Damian, but nothing happened in that arc to make go "Oh, not poor Damian". Then there was something about the anti-christ, and the suggestion that Dr. Hurt is actually Satan himself. That intrigued me, but it never went anywhere and no one's talked about it since then. There's just too much stuff coming and going and never coming back again that it's not exciting to me.
I'm not saying Morrison has to satisfy me. It's all subjective. You like his run for the most part. I don't, for the most part. When all is said and done, after part 6, i'll re-evaluate my opinion and let it be known.
Which is why I keep saying that you haven't seen through the ploy. You told me yourself: you think it's true. If it turns out I'm right, your response would logically be "Wow! He totally misdirected me, because I thought Hurt was really Thomas Wayne! Saint was right all along!"
I said i'm not sure if it's really misdirection or not. And this is where i should have said this: It would be funny as hell if it wasn't really misdirection. That's kind of what i was getting at in my earlier posts. It was be funny because Morrison suggests something outrageous. Fans don't want that outrageous something to be true, so they think it's really just a ploy to divert their attention away from something else. All of a sudden, BAM! Alfred is really Bruce's father. Then we get to read all sorts of funny posts here of people complaining, and saying they thought it was just a ploy.
You could argue that it was still misdirection, but i'd argue that people only allowed themselves to be misdirected by themselves, not by Morrison. Get what i'm saying?
If the rumor is FALSE, which it is, my enjoyment of the story is lessened. The introduction of this rumor, which i know is fake, i now know, has no bearing on the story at all and has become less enjoyable.
If the rumor is true, the story has become more interesting because Morrison has just done something to make fans go crazy.
This is not what your comments indicate, as you began this conversation by telling me that it's not misdirection, and that it's true.
Then why did you say you expected it to be true? I don't understand. We seem to be having some communication problems.
Again, i said i wasn't sure or not and posted a theory as why i think it MIGHT be true, but that was because of the USAToday article. It was merely a fun theory to think about. I probably should have made that more clear.
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