LAST EDITED ON Jun-29-14 AT 08:43 PM (EDT)
 
>Just saying "that's just poor writing"
>is so vague as to be meaningless; you have to actually break down the
>elements of the show and go over what does and doesn't work

... OK, did I imagine the part where we'd spent the previous half-dozen or so posts doing just that, and the "trim colors" remark was a quip at the end of a summary about Merc and I arriving at a quasi-consensus? Or are you just ignoring it because you'd rather shout at me for some inexplicable reason? The savagery you're displaying here is a bit puzzling, I'm just saying.

>look at that and think about how you can make it
>better.

The thing is, I'm not in a position to make the canon (which is what I am grumbling about here) better in the context of UF, only work with things that are happening after it. (Thirty to 120 years after it, depending on which part of the Legacy/Dìqiú Suite project we're talking about.)

I'm basically the janitor in this scenario, and what you are seeing in the previous posts is me grumbling about the smell of some of the stuff I have to clean up. I'm not in the role of an engineer looking at ways of revamping an underbuilt existing structure. I mean, look, I could DO The Legend of Korra: Actually Legendary Remix, starting from the opening premise of Book 1 Chapter 1 and repairing everything as I go. It's within my powers. It's not that different from what NXE started out as, albeit TLOK:ALR would be a lot less blatantly parodiacal because I'm not 23 any more and my standards have changed. It would, however, be a whole different project.

Do you see how they're different?

>Of course, you'll almost certainly ignore this because it
>doesn't fit into your preconceived narrative that the good guys have
>to win because they're the good guys and the villains aren't allowed
>the remotest semblance of a good idea because villains r bad, but w/e,
>piece said, I'm out.

No, I didn't ignore it, but shit, Traitor, if that's the way you feel, then here's a problem: That "preconceived narrative" is a guiding principle of Undocumented Features. (At least the first part is.) Your tone here indicates that you find it Dramatically or Creatively Inadequate, which really makes me wonder what you've been getting out of the product this whole time.

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