>> This wasn't a clean-up op. They took everyone on the island captive...
>> which means they wanted them alive."
>
>Thats... not smart of them IMO; seems to me that there is nothing
>harder to keep prisoner than an single Amazon, let alone over a
>thousand of them. One wonders what they hope to achieve, other than
>setting themselves up for a whupping!
>"We have the Psi Corps. Amazons may be incredibly strong and durable women, but put enough pressure on their minds, and they will break. Then, they will be our incredibly strong and durable women. An army of Amazons."
Okay, maybe that's not the exact words, but I think that captures the idea.
>> They ran up the stairs and turned right. Blast doors slid open at
>> their approach, then slid closed behind, as they ran through the first
>> quadrant's section. The last door on the row didn't respond, with the
>> result of Geoff bouncing off it.
>
>Kabong! Makes sense that the PTB would twig to that and overide the
>tags sooner or later, adding the sound effect in my head (at least)
>injected a nice touch of whups to break up the building tension of the
>scene.
>
It wouldn't even require that. It's possible that the door guards weren't cleared for entry into that area.
>> "Paying a debt, Polly. Prepare to come aboard." Everyone could
>> hear the relief in the voice of Steve Rogers.
>
>CAP TO THE RESCUE!!! but Polly? Ok, its a convenient shortening of
>Hippolyta, but I bet it drove her absolutly Spare the first time he
>used it on her!
>
It's what the older JSA members called Hippolyta in the comics. It seems appropriate that Cap would have earned the right to use that nickname.
>> "What the hell?" the Q-boss blurted out. "Where the bitches come
>> from?"
>> Steve Rogers said quietly, "He won't leave here alive."
>
>UF-Geoff is right. The competence level of Q Boss seem to be dropping
>dramatically. And Cap? well.. DUH.
>
Q-Bosses have varied in quality. But Earl does seem to be one of the guys that made the upper half of the class possible.
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