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Tricks of the trade
All media have their own language. I remember a two designers fighting an uphill battle to explain a cue to a novice technician. At the end of an act, a man is at home with an angry mob outside his front door. The mob is a sound effect, naturally. The man goes out on the porch to confront them… fade to black.
Now, if the lights and the sound fade together, we the audience are leaving the scene. The moment is frozen in time and we have no indication what might be happening until we return from intermission. If the sound fades first, then the mob is leaving. If the lights fade first, and we hear the mob sound continue in the darkness, then it is an ominous indicator that the mob is tearing he guy apart.
If you're new to a medium, you want to understand its particular language.
Now it gets interesting, because different genres have their own conventions, which are completely different from the language of the medium. I think we all know by now that the... -
I noticed a theme
Well, let's see. You're mixing together two different series by two different writers to make your observations. MyklarCure writes JLAin't, where your Aquaman and Wonder Woman reference is from, and I write Cat-Tales, where Ra's is, as well as other Diana appearances. A subtle nuance, perhaps, but worth mentioning before we continue.
While I don't know that Myk had a particular instance in mind of Diana saying she wanted a Meta-run state, she was actively DOING it in the graphic novel Earth 2. She was the face of Big Brother on a planet-size viewscreen, evangelizing the new world order of goodness and light they were imposing on this parallel dimension they'd conquered. And she was devastated when they had to withdraw and let the native...
