Originally posted by MF DELPH
Not to belabor the point, good friend, but a character forgetting a couple panels later to use an ability they were literally just engaging in in the same span of battle? That's plot, that's not character. The story was plotted to end that way, not the character in mid battle losing the know how to perform the act it had just been engaging in for several panels prior to the climax. IIRC, the narration during the battle even remarked upon Jasper's godlike ability to morph and distort his own form and that of The Fury's to such great degree and ease, but to no effect due to the Fury's ability to adapt, leading right into the Unspace Deus Ex Machina.

But then again, I view PIS and CIS to pretty much be one in the same since it's all plot driven outcomes that create the character's traits to begin with, so it's really pointless to distinguish between the two and leads to these kind of chicken/egg debates.

Definitely agree with the latter.

Imo the writers induced stupidity into the character, for the sake of the plot. Thus we essentially have an amalgamation of PIS/CIS in the very scene being discussed.