>>I assume this is set after the end of season 1 and assumes season 2
>>never existed, from the way you spoke about them, Gryphon.
>
>Yup, pretty much. In this setting, Kaban and Serval have been
>together for around 10 years by this point, though you wouldn't know
>it to look at them, since Friends don't seem to age (although, like
>most things to do with spans of time, this is only vaguely implied in
>the original).

I was going to ask about where they stood romance-wise, until part 2 came out! Hilarious, and I'll respond to it another time.

>
>>Mordin. Spastic scientist. Much to write about. Little time.
>>
>>Yeah, I can see how writing Mordin could be easier once you get in the
>>groove.
>
>There is a truly wondrous Mordin scene in the next Shepard's
>11, which I am really looking forward to sharing with the class,
>if I can ever get the rest of the cast to answer the god damned phone.

Well, I've already said I was very much looking forward to that too, I believe. It'll come when it'll come.

>
>>Well, well. Time to break out my old school tabletop books. Does
>>Renraku bear any resemblance to the Shadowrun megacorp of the same
>>name?
>
>It does. Of the two most prominent worlds in the Co-Prosperity Sphere
>(New Japan and Tomodachi), New Japan is much more cyberpunk.

Excellent! That definitely fills in some holes for me on where Renraku stands. Can I just say I'm very, very glad they didn't build an arcology in Japari Park?

Or did they?

>
>>>that particular old book in the Professor's library - A copy of
>>>the 2295 Expanded Edition of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
>>
>>Interesting that Kaban has the frame of reference to understand a book
>>like this, not that I've read it.
>
>It's written to be as accessible to the layperson as possible—that
>was kind of a thing with Carl Sagan—and it's entirely
>possible that A) she had to read a number of other books before she
>was ready to take it on and B) she didn't really get 100 percent of
>it. (The chapter telling the story of the Heike crab, for instance,
>would have been mystifying without any context about medieval Japanese
>history.) Still, Kaban is very clever.

Ah! If it's written for the layman, that makes a lot of sense. Cool.

I want to get to the rest of the annotations but I'm on vacation and, paradoxically, have little time. It'll come!

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