>True enough, my internal association was already silly enough.
>Stallone has forever ruined that sentence in my head. I should get
>around to watching the more recent remake and see if that can cleanse
>the stain.

I haven't seen it either, although I'm told he doesn't remove his helmet in that one, which automatically makes that version more in character.

(That said, I didn't actually hate the Stallone film. It's dumb, but it's not as if the source material was meant to be taken seriously itself, and I thought the production design was really quite good. Plus, Barbara Hershey. And one of Rob Schneider's better performances,* although I recognize that could be interpreted as damnation with faint praise. "Eat recycled food! It's good for the environment and OK for you.")

>>Knowing Flan's luck, it'll be one of the ones who aren't available.
>
>That would be in keeping with her complaint that started the whole
>discussion. But as Remilia notes, she has time to fill that role in
>her life.

She's mostly complaining about wanting to as a way of pulling Remilia's chain anyway, at this stage, although she is definitely interested in expanding the number of people in the world she knows from its current total of "four". :)

>Not sure why, but I picture SDM as the sort of place that would have a
>large, ornate wrought iron greenhouse extending away from the main
>building to house tropical plants (probably evenly split, when it was
>maintained, between alchemically useful and aesthetically pleasing
>varieties.)

(nod) I've mentioned but not shown a conservatory a couple of times. I had in mind the less formal sunroom type as opposed to an attached greenhouse (although it's a bit weird for a vampire's house to have a sunroom—maybe they think of it as a moonroom :), but you're right, that does seem like the kind of thing Remilia the Elder would have had.

--G.
* albeit not as good as his turn in Down Periscope, which is straight-up hilarious. "WHAT! IS IN! THESE CANS, BUCKMAN!"
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