Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130227210719/@comment-25866432-20130228030845

Azure Arrow wrote: Regulus22 wrote:

Ninja 989 wrote:

Regulus22 wrote:

Ninja 989 wrote:

Rassilon of Old wrote:

Regulus22 wrote:

Lagoon Boy, if you actually pay attention to his development, instead of incessant hating on him because you liked Superboy and Miss Martian together and think that he's just a replacement, is THE MOST LIKABLE NEW MEMBER OF THE TEAM. I dunno. I'm not really much of a "Shipper", and although I enjoyed the SuperMartian relationship, it wasn't anything I ever got excited over developments in, and I still don't like Lagoon Boy particularly.

I tend to dislike characters with catchphrases, because it just seems unrealistic for teenagers to have catchphrases. I should know, I am a teenager, and naturally, most of my friends are teenagers. But back to Lagoon Boy specifically, he doesn't have a great attitude when on Team missions, and I didn't really care when he was abducted, apart from the advances in story it gave us.

I can appreciate the character as a realistic(ish) representation of the type of person in a group not everyone likes, but apart from that, I don't really have much of a connection with him. I hated the couple, but Lagoon Boy is just a d*ck. I can't stand him. He's overagressive, CLEARLY has anger issues (especially in the earlier episodes), is rude to people, including the secretary General of the god damn UN when he is accidentally mistaken for an alien (you can't really blame him, come on), is overpossessive/controlling of Miss M (he doesn't want her spending time with her ex), and is actually the LEAST likable member of the team. I honestly wanted him to die on the Reach ship, or at least while saving blue. And his catchphrase is just lame and annoying. I like arsenal better than him. At least arsenal does something rather than get pissed off. Exactly like Superboy, Exactly like Superboy, Exactly like Superboy, La'gann was actually friendly to Tseng btw, Exactly like Superboy.

He just isn't a blue eyed heart throb so people take everything with far more fault. I'm a dude, and I think superboy's weird, but he's trying to improve. Lagoon boy is just annoying. And in Happy New Year when Tseng thought he was an alien he said "Yeah, it happens a lot chum." It was obvious that he was trying to be insulting. Lagoon Boy is superboy taken to a far more extreme degree. And superboy didn't have any problem with her spending time with other guys. Lagoon Boy just pisses me off to no end. Chum can mean friend even in real life...

Superboy was overprotective of her to a point where SHE was sick of it, Alpha Males. Lagoon Boy hasn't actually been shown to dislike her with other guys, he wants to know what's going when she spends a night with Superboy? Big Whoop, that's called being a Boyfriend. If your girlfriend spends a night with another guy without an explanation, if you don't ask WTH is going on, then you're incompetent as a man.

Even if you're a guy, Lagoon Boy is obviously harder to relate to then Superboy because he doesn't look human. But, HE IS. In the comics, he was developed way more on the emotional side of things. Lagoon Boy is the most developed character of the new members, even compared to Blue, Impulse and Arsenal who've had more screentime, they haven't really shown anything of themselves. He has, and it's good once you accept him a human being. The tone that he said chum in was CLEARLY intended ot be offensive. And the guy part was about superboy being a "blue eyed dream boy" or whatever you said. And anyway, Lagoon Boy's character development basically begins and ends with Miss M's angry boyfriend. He has gotten basically no screen time (he's been injured, captured, or off screen for almost the whole season). Almost EVERYONE else (other than Wondergirl) has gotten more character development than he has. And Greg has repeatedly said that this series does NOT follow the comics in many ways. Just rewatch the first few episodes of the season. Lagoon Boy goes TOTALLY nuts EXTREMELY quickly, especially with relation to Aqualad (basically the only time we see him actually try to fight). The only point of putting him on the series was to replace Superboy. He's contributed just about nothing to the team. His only powers are breathing underwater and a not very useful ballon form that gets beaten EXTREMELY easily. He hasn't ever WON a fight during the series.