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"The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
 
   You begin to wonder whether any mortal man should be able to wield it when you suddenly realize that it would theoretically enable you to team up Kari Byron and Amy Pond.

--G.
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  RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting sideways Apr-29-11 1
     RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting A Vile Gangster Apr-29-11 2
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting SneakyPete Apr-29-11 3
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting Prince Charon May-01-11 9
  RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting dstar Apr-29-11 4
     RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting BobSchroeck Apr-30-11 5
  RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting Bushido May-01-11 6
     RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting BZArcher May-01-11 7
     RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting Gryphonadmin May-01-11 10
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting CdrMike May-02-11 11
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting jonathanlennox May-03-11 12
             RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting Bushido May-03-11 13
             RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting Gryphonadmin May-03-11 14
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting rwpikul May-04-11 15
  RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting The Traitor May-01-11 8
     RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting jhosmer1 May-26-11 16
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting Gryphonadmin May-26-11 17
         RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting JFerio May-26-11 18
             RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting The Traitor May-26-11 19

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sideways
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1. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   God's little fish in trousers, that's horrifying. They'd get along like a house on fire, and I've been in a house on fire, so trust that I know exactly whereof I speak.


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A Vile Gangster
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2. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   and *that* would quite possibly be-the hottest catastrophe...in the world!

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SneakyPete
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3. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   They *say* that this team-up caused...the Big Bang, and will one day, cause...the Big Crunch.

And that the Potential Awesome of this team up may even exceed that of the Stig.


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Prince Charon
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9. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >and *that* would quite possibly be-the hottest catastrophe...in
>the world!
>

Bloody hell, I could hear Jeremy Clarkson saying that.


“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
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4. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >You begin to wonder whether any mortal man should be able to wield it
>when you suddenly realize that it would theoretically enable you to
>team up Kari Byron and Amy Pond.

Yes please.


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5. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   LAST EDITED ON Apr-30-11 AT 01:49 PM (EDT)
 
>>You begin to wonder whether any mortal man should be able to wield it
>>when you suddenly realize that it would theoretically enable you to
>>team up Kari Byron and Amy Pond.
>
>Yes please.

Hell, the possible requirement that the Mythbusters need to intersect with the Doctor in some way to get to this point only improves the idea. The three of them working together... oh yeah.

-- Bob
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6. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   Speaking of Kari, the H2G2 entry on Mythbusters in UF only mentioned Jamie and Adam. What kind of changes (race, background, special abilities, etc.) did Kari, Grant and Tory get when introduced to the UF setting? We know Kari looks human from her brief guest spot (along with Buster) in The Revolution Will Be Televised, but that's about it.

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BZArcher
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7. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   Well, we also know that Kari is from Bgztl, actually.

There was a mention that Grant is basically a living Jawa diety.

Tori's main ability may simply be that he can keep blending into all the craziness at M5 without missing a beat.

Oh, and he can weld.

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Gryphonadmin
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10. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >What kind of changes (race, background, special
>abilities, etc.) did Kari, Grant and Tory get when introduced to the
>UF setting?

As far as I can recall, we've technically only seen Kari on screen, and as BZA mentioned, she's from Bgtzl (we've seen her walk through a wall at least once).

Grant is mentioned in a TV listing, and although I suspect Kari might have been exaggerating somewhat when she said he was the Jawas' living god, it is well-known that he spends at least one month of every year on Tatooine, where he vanishes into the desert and reappears 30 days later disheveled, sunburned, and deeply pleased with himself. We believe he has a Lawrence of Arabia sort of thing going on there. As far as anyone knows he's just a regular human, though I wouldn't put it past him to be rockin' the Will-Smith-in-I, Robot bionic-man thing.

As for Tory, he hasn't appeared at all, but I have to admit that if I were plotting an appearance for him right now, I would be sorely tempted to continue the Legion of Super-Heroes riff Kari started and give him Ultra Boy's powers. So he can be invulnerable or super-strong or super-fast, but not more than one at the same time. Good for crashing bicycles, not so good for testing the slap-your-hands-together-on-the-sword-blade thing. :)

--G.
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11. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >As for Tory, he hasn't appeared at all, but I have to admit that if I
>were plotting an appearance for him right now, I would be
>sorely tempted to continue the Legion of Super-Heroes riff Kari
>started and give him Ultra Boy's powers. So he can be invulnerable
>or super-strong or super-fast, but not more than one at
>the same time. Good for crashing bicycles, not so good for testing
>the slap-your-hands-together-on-the-sword-blade thing. :)

Perhaps that explains why Grant and Kari took so much pleasure in torturing...er, "volunteering" him for myths involving potential physical pain and anguish.

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12. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >As for Tory, he hasn't appeared at all, but I have to admit that if I
>were plotting an appearance for him right now, I would be
>sorely tempted to continue the Legion of Super-Heroes riff Kari
>started and give him Ultra Boy's powers.

Were they, perhaps, testing the myth about what happens if you get swallowed by a space whale?


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13. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   Not that Gryphon doesn't already have too many plot bunnies to work on in what little spare time he has, but we really need to see some UF Mythbusters mini-stories. Just imagine the kinds of myths they can put to the test with the tools a galaxy's worth of SuperScience! has provided them.

"So what do you think?" Jamie asked, hunkering down to slap a transporter tag on Dev-Na's back. "Kryptonian super-intelligence?"
"Busted," Kari said without hesitation.
"Absolutely busted," Bastila agreed.
"I could've told you -that-," Adam said wryly.
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14. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >>As for Tory, he hasn't appeared at all, but I have to admit that if I
>>were plotting an appearance for him right now, I would be
>>sorely tempted to continue the Legion of Super-Heroes riff Kari
>>started and give him Ultra Boy's powers.
>
>Were they, perhaps, testing the myth about what happens if you get
>swallowed by a space whale?

Oh, it was probably a little more oblique than that.

"OK! Not only do space whales exist... "

"... and not only can you attract them with particular subspace frequencies... "

"... it turns out they're more than willing to eat survey pods."

"Man, this is bad."

"Yup."

"I'll fight you to see who has to tell Jamie."

--G.
I think it works better if Grant speaks first, but YMMV.
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15. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >So he can be invulnerable
>or super-strong or super-fast, but not more than one at
>the same time. Good for crashing bicycles, not so good for testing
>the slap-your-hands-together-on-the-sword-blade thing. :)


I'm not so sure: If nothing else, it makes him great for testing to see if a normal human could do it.

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"Ready"
"OK, in 3... 2... 1"
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8. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   Do it.

Doitdoitdoitdoitdoit.

But let me have a lie down first.

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16. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   You know, if we're going to throw the Mythbusters and the Doctor together, we might as well also have the Top Gear crew involved. :)

The first time I saw Top Gear, I thought, "They must NEVER team up with the Mysthbusters. Adam and Clarkson would add more power, Jamie and Captain Slow would spend an hour discussing safety trivia (before Adam and Jeremy totally disregarded it), the Build Team would rebuild the Stig into an even MORE unstoppable driving machine. Oh, and Hammond would be forced to drive whatever they came up with." :)

I second the vote for Amy and Kari getting screen time together... it's perhaps the only thing better than the Amy and Amy scene in Space & Time, the 2011 Comic Relief shorts.


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17. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   LAST EDITED ON May-26-11 AT 01:23 PM (EDT)
 
>I second the vote for Amy and Kari getting screen time together...
>it's perhaps the only thing better than the Amy and Amy scene in Space
>& Time, the 2011 Comic Relief shorts.

Yes, I'm pretty sure watching Mythbusters immediately after Space & Time was what made me realize I hold this terrible power in the first place.

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18. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   >You know, if we're going to throw the Mythbusters and the Doctor
>together, we might as well also have the Top Gear crew involved. :)
>
>The first time I saw Top Gear, I thought, "They must NEVER team up
>with the Mythbusters. Adam and Clarkson would add more power, Jamie
>and Captain Slow would spend an hour discussing safety trivia (before
>Adam and Jeremy totally disregarded it), the Build Team would rebuild
>the Stig into an even MORE unstoppable driving machine. Oh, and
>Hammond would be forced to drive whatever they came up with." :)

Me, my friend Mike, and my Dad are all in agreement. If Top Gear and Mythbusters got together for something OTHER than Adam and Jamie as 'Stars in a Reasonably Priced Car', one would not be safe being in the same COUNTRY. Possibly continent or even hemisphere.

The resulting episode would be a lot of fun to watch, however.





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19. "RE: The Awful Power of the UF Setting"
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   "And tonight on Top Gear, I do something silly in a hat..."
[Shot of Clarkson in Jamie's flat cap hooning around in whichever mental carmaker managed to survive to this point in history]
"James does something silly in a Volvo..."
[Shot of May, Adam and a few other Mythbusters welding something big and ominous to the boot of a largish Volvo estate that spins up making a whining noise]
"And Richard does something silly in his trousers."
[Shot of Hammond screaming bleeped-out obscenities behind the wheel of what looks like a largish Volvo estate, face a mask of absolute terror]

...

Is this right? -- ed.

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