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"(S39) S3M5 Sophomore Slump"
 
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9 "Sophomore slump" is a term referring to the tendency of any number of things to go wrong in their second year or iteration - originally students, but applied since its coining to everything from athletes to bands.

35 Carrie's an original character, and one I had a bit of fun with, even if she only appears this once. It says a bit further down that she's half-Andorian, but not what the other half is.

102 Tom is being exceedingly modest about his father's establishment. The "farm" in question is Orron III, breadbasket of the Corporate Sector.

217 It's actually a Mandalorian accent, but in order to avoid a lot of awkward questions, Jango settled on the New Zealand colony world Concord Dawn, where everyone sounds more or less like that. Most people don't know he's really one of the last surviving Mandalorians.

233 The Fetts are an example of the kind of authorial perversity that grips me from time to time. They're the UF versions of two of the most overrated, overhyped characters in the history of sci-fi, a couple of guys who - especially in the case of Boba - did practically nothing on screen and died comical, incompetent deaths, yet - again especially in the case of Boba - they've become these hugely popular cult figures. Frankly, I can't figure it. They do have cool-looking gear, though. Anyway, I wanted to put a couple more young Duelists in place, and I decided to make the young Boba Fett one of them. They're both supposed to be these tragic figures, rendered heartless by cruel fate and driven to lives of violence and ruthlessness by the emptiness of their existence or some such emo crap, so I made them a happy-go-lucky father-and-son private eye team. It's just my way of twisting the fandom's tail a little.

268 Fenn Shysa (originally created for the Marvel Comics Star Wars series back in the Triassic Period) is another of the handful of Mandalorian survivors who live, thanks to a cryosleep mishap, in the present-day UF universe.

269 Jango's on-and-off partnership with Alita Ironheart hasn't been documented, but began shortly after Scrapheap City Shuffle.

279 "The Millrace" is both a district of New Avalon and a feature of the landscape; in the latter capacity it refers to the part of the Morgan River that runs through downtown New Avalon in a canal rather than free-flowing.

404 He's not. It's really rather a dreadful book. I know some people who are huge Umberto Eco fans, and maybe some of his other books are better, but seriously, blech.

425 Extrapolated from what little we're told about Miki and Kozue's lives beyond Ohtori Academy in Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's strongly implied that their parents are wealthy, but distant (and I seem to recall at some point it's mentioned that they're either separated or separating). I had to fill in the details myself.

Indeed. In fact, that separation and impending re-marriage serves to stir the pot even further during the third major story arc, making Miki (and Kozue) vulnerable to Akio's encouragement to rejoin the Duels. PJM

451 I have to wonder how that came up in the first place. Kozue and Utena don't really have a chat-about-guys kind of relationship.

473 Marty massaged his UF household's end of this conversation, adding the characters' unique touches (like "teleo-phone").

539 Hank Utonium is a little crazy, albeit harmlessly so. It's not his fault, though. He has a head injury.

648 I spelled Fontainbleu Academy's name right! Inconceivable!

674 What Broadbank is really annoyed about, naturally, is not that Clarissa tried to burn down the Colosseum, but that she got caught. As the Victorian actress Beatrice Campbell is purported to have remarked (though the line is often supposed to have been something George Bernard Shaw said to or about Oscar Wilde), "My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."

704 Of course Blossom's the leader. It says so right in the theme song. Apparently Kozue's never heard it.

712 This was actually an episode of The Powerpuff Girls.

725 I think Corwin has this one surrounded.

782 Heather McClellan sighting!

844 ... kind of...

869 Jess is another Lunar: Silver Star Story import. In the game she's an aspiring priestess, the daughter of a famous Beastman warrior and a human mother. In UF, we sort of flipped that around.

949 That's one possibility. Another is that it wouldn't be good for Ambassador Feeple's career if it got out that he's not genetically compatible with his wife. There are certain interesting anomalies in his genome that make it impossible for him to father children with a member of the Salusian royal family. The metagenetics wackos of the galaxy would go batshit.

This is all not very likely by what we know of genetics in the real world today, but hey, I don't care.

959 He apparently still doesn't.

1026 How indeed?

1044 This is not as hard for her peers to understand as the thing with Eiko. Aeka is a lovely woman and you will never find a more loyal friend, but she can be a bit... overbearing.

1096 "But why does he go into our closet?" "Well, why do you go into our closet?" "To get my clothes. But that's not why he goes in there." "Of course not. He's twice your size, your clothes would never fit him. Think before you ask these questions, Mitch! Twenty points higher than me, thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?"

1183 Corwin knows that if Utena hadn't been there, Kozue would've asked him to come with. However, he thinks she would've been teasing him.

1475 Doc Mui came up with Heinzen and Pettrone when I was feeling around for ways to monkey-wrench this semester a little more.

1492 You can tell Doc wrote this paragraph because of the coy phrasing.

1527 Between biocontrol and 25th-century pharmaceuticals, I find it hard to believe that anybody in the civilized galaxy gets in Trouble with a capital T in high school any more. But then, they do think she's from the Outer Rim.

1529 Yeah, they teach algebra in the third grade in the 25th century. It's the new new math.

1612 Girl's got to have her standards.

1809 I love Strickland's dialogue throughout this scene, especially because he doesn't hesitate for a minute to get right up into the grille of a student he knows full well is a divinity.

1960 These are the preliminary designs for Armored Knight G-Kaiser, as seen in A Night to Remember.

2043 I thought it was important to work in a few little details to remind the reader that Corwin's been going to school with these people his whole life - we didn't see him attending the Crescent Heights schools in the First Symphony or much of the Second, but he has been, all along.

2065 "Sad Kozue in Rain"? Nah, doesn't quite have the same ring to it. PJM

2088 Kozue's question ("Why do we have only one word...") echoes a problem with the English language that has bedeviled writers for centuries.

2164 It's almost an anime comedy premise in itself, isn't it?

2217 That the pilot's seat of the Z-95 is known among pilots as "the Easy Chair", because it's big and comfortably padded, is straight from Daley (Han Solo at Stars' End). In UF, the early Headhunters' ejection seats, which (like most UF-universe spacecraft ejection seats) had a rudimentary maneuvering system, had a tendency to go a little crazy and shoot around uncontrollably until the fuel ran out. When this happened, the Easy Chair became the Crazy Chair. To this day, thanks to the influence of old-timey Headhunter pilots on fighter pilot culture, ejecting is sometimes called "riding the Crazy Chair".

2240 The third character in Marvelous Miki's registry number prefix is "1" instead of a letter because there are no letters assigned to that number on a standard alphanumeric (e.g. telephone) keypad.

2307 Bear Island Light and the Cranberry Isles are based on real islands off the coast of Maine. When I was a kid, my mother almost bought a house on Little Cranberry Isle.

2328 Being an old-timey aviation buff (and having played the X-1 simulation about a thousand times), Kozue is well aware that Chuck Yeager named the X-1 he flew Glamorous Glennis after his wife. Add an adjective that alliterates with her brother's name, and you have a name for her Headhunter...


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1. "RE: Annotations: S3M5"
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   >1809 I love Strickland's dialogue throughout this scene,
>especially because he doesn't hesitate for a minute to get right up
>into the grille of a student he knows full well is a divinity.

Strickland is The Man.

Polychrome


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3. "RE: Annotations: S3M5"
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   >>1809 I love Strickland's dialogue throughout this scene,
>>especially because he doesn't hesitate for a minute to get right up
>>into the grille of a student he knows full well is a divinity.
>
>Strickland is The Man.


Just because the lad went off and got himself a portfolio, worshipers and an entire planet that exists due to his grace and goodwill doesn't mean that he can run in the halls.. start fights.. or mouth off to his teachers.

- Berk Watkins
Student of Quantum Bogodynamics


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   >233 The Fetts are an example of the kind of authorial perversity that grips me >from time to time. They're the UF versions of two of the most overrated, >overhyped characters in the history of sci-fi, a couple of guys who - >especially in the case of Boba - did practically nothing on screen and died >comical, incompetent deaths, yet - again especially in the case of Boba - >they've become these hugely popular cult figures. Frankly, I can't figure it. >They do have cool-looking gear, though. Anyway, I wanted to put a couple more >young Duelists in place, and I decided to make the young Boba Fett one of >them. They're both supposed to be these tragic figures, rendered heartless by >cruel fate and driven to lives of violence and ruthlessness by the emptiness >of their existence or some such emo crap, so I made them a happy-go-lucky >father-and-son private eye team. It's just my way of twisting the fandom's >tail a little.

Actually, if you take any stock in the line of SW novels that have been put out, Boba is alive and well, and is the closest thing the Mandalorians have to a leader/head of state. Seems a few authors have been trying to rehabilitate the bounty hunter.

Personally, I like EPU's Boba better.....

Craig


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