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Message ID: 18
#18, RE: (TLoK) Book 2: A One-Sentence Reaction
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-25-13 at 04:09 PM
In response to message #14
>And the ideas are solid, which can make it very frustrating.

Well... some of them are. Phil and I differ on this as so much else to do with TLoK, but I'm really not impressed with the Oh, And There's An Evil Avatar Spirit Too, Did We Forget To Mention That? thing. I mean, giving the Avatar Spirit its own dialogue was iffy enough, but the Evil Avatar thing was like the time on Quantum Leap when they introduced - and so called in the promotional materials - an Evil Leaper From The Future. What? Seriously?

I realize that these guys have a giant hard-on for the Confucian universal duality principle, but... no. Suddenly Revealed Evil Anti-Avatar falls with a hollow plonk to the bottom of my Bullshit Well.

(And why is he so much better at it? That spirit's been in a box for 10,000 years and then it possessed that world's equivalent of a malevolent Catholic cardinal, and yet together they can repeatedly trounce the extremely-well-trained host of the spirit with 10,000 years of field experience without even really trying? I'm, I just, what? No.)

>1)"Oh God, are they going to give her a scar? Really?"

In the interest of full disclosure I should note that I do not, in itself, object to thie occasional decorative facial scar (I mean, well... Cammy, right?). I was mainly just concerned about the retroactive model violation it would've caused. :)

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