Hank. He took Kurt for a Daemon (native to the planet Daemos).

>Logan, Kitty and Kurt could all make for good duelist (Logan's quite
>skilled with a katana as I recall

He is, but on the other hand, he doesn't really have the mindset to make a good Duelist. He has this unfortunate fondness for making his opponent dead, which doesn't work out so well in a friendly Rose Duel. Or even an unfriendly one.

>Kitty's ninja trained,

Which, as was pointed out to me during the EPDTMU development process, means that she and Kaitlyn have to be kept separate - ninja and samurai are natural enemies in the wild. :)

>and kurt's
>demonstrated the ability to weild 3 swords simultaneously with skill

Teleporting is so cheaty, though. :)

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There's a followup to this, I just know it... too bad it's not coming to me... oh well, I'm sure it'll visit someone else and they'll share...

>>and kurt's
>>demonstrated the ability to weild 3 swords simultaneously with skill
>
>Teleporting is so cheaty, though. :)

And turning invisible isn't? :)
Kurt and Kait would certainly be an interesting Rose Duel...

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Not really. Unless he was just bouncing around at random, constantly, he wouldn't know where to hit. She'd just have to wait for him to get tired, sneak up and /slice/...there goes a rose.

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Besides, the point of a Rose Duel is in the challenge, not the 'I'll turn invisible and bust his rose' sort of instant win...that would alienate people and no one would LEARN anything which is the whole point of the Rose Duels. Kait kicking Utena's butt was for ulterior motives, and other than that, and her trial, she usually didn't use the invisibility trick, did she? Kait would probably win against Kurt anyway but it would be interesting and would cover a lot of ground (and walls and ceiling). An entertaining fight would be Kurt and Sky or Kurt and Liza with lots of flourishes and much Errol-Flynnery abounding, and probably in the case of Liza and Kurt much shameless flirting, as they both do that very well indeed.

two good points... One that, in fact, the duel between Utena and Kate on the rooftop was also a special case. It was kinda a case of 'you know, we've been sparing for ages, but we've never really gone all out' combined with a bit of friendly rivalry (ala Kate and Juri's 'I yeild to your Kung-fu bit back at the bowling alley)

As to the second... It is well known that Kurt did grow up in and around a circus (at least in the backstory that I remember for him) so I find it totaly believable that he was capable of accuratly wielding a sword in each hand. (Dunno what the style is called when their both the same length, but one short and one long is called Florentine style) The one in the tail, I'd expect was more for area denial rather than serious attack. Still, I hope the SoS muse prompts Gryph to include a duel between Kurt and Liza sometime in the future... I agree that it would be a killer scene, and a lot of fun to read!

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In dialect, 'y'all' may be, and is, used either as a plural or a singular.

Y'all bein' in Texas, I'da thought ya'd know better. }:-{D

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Says you. To me, and to all the folks I know, "y'all" is plural and a contraction of "you all." It's like "youse." Second person plural pronoun. I could (and was going to before I realized the triviality of it) dig up a bunch of sources to back this up, but since it's just a nit, I'll just let it lie.

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That's nice.

All y'all can shut up about it now.

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Apologies. Shutting up now.

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y'all is second person singular. all y'all is second person plural. :)

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Yep, that was Remembrance of the Daleks, the last Daleks episode. The reference itself barely misses being circular, too, and I'm a little stunned that the writers either missed it or passed it up. I remember doping out from dates mentioned in the novelization that the episode Ace missed watching was the very first one, An Unearthly Child, which aired November 23, 1963. If they'd set the story just a month later, she'd have switched off the opening of the first episode of the second story - The Daleks.

On the other hand, the first scene in Remembrance with an actual Dalek in it takes place in the junkyard at No. 76 Totters Lane, Shoreditch, which was where the TARDIS was parked in An Unearthly Child when the two schoolteachers followed the Doctor's granddaughter to it and started the whole series off in the first place. (At one point the Doctor tells someone about some feature of the yard, and when asked how he knows that, he replies peevishly, "I've been here before.") So I guess that's just as circular; only the symmetry in the Dalek connection would have amused me more.

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It's a typical pilot, and a typical BBC programme from the early 1960s - which is to say it has terrible pacing and the sound quality ranges from bad to abysmal. The early shows bear relatively little resemblance to what the show had become by the time it became famous - it was originally developed as a children's show, and it shows in the production design and the writing.

That said, they're interesting as examples of the way the show evolved. I recommend seeing if you can track down one of the early Dalek episodes, like The Daleks, The Chase or The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and then comparing it to a later one, like Revelation of the Daleks (if you can stand the Sixth Doctor) or Remembrance.

My interest in the First Doctor era is mainly historical - I don't really like that version of the show much. I don't really start to like it on its own merits until Tomb of the Cybermen (and if a fan really wants to suck up, I hear a fully restored version of Tomb is out on DVD now, and my address is on my online résumé :), which is a Second Doctor episode.

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