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Vehrec
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Feb-02-14, 09:51 PM (EST) |
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1. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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Jebediah Kerman, Test Pilot extraordinare. Or if he was a Golden Age kerbal pilot, now long departed and much mourned, his spiritual descendant: MechJeb! The only Autopilot that can fly a Valkarie through and out the envelope and back in the other side.* *MechJeb is not actually that good of a pilot-do not engage MechJeb in docking mode and go prepare snacks, leaving the autopilot unsupervised. Do not attempt to program a suicide burn landing profile. Do not attempt to use Mechjeb without calibrating it to local atmospheric conditions. Do not scream at MechJeb. Do not ask MechJeb to Open the podbay doors. Use of MechJeb with third-party navigation data invalidates the warranty and absolves Anatid Robotics and Multiversal Mechatronics of all liability for accidents and collisions. Please use Mech-jeb responsibly. “Navigare Necesse Est”-'Get me out of here!' Group Captain Konstantin Vehrec |
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JeanneHedge
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Feb-02-14, 11:44 PM (EST) |
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2. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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Not new characters, but checking in with some old characters we have seen very little of (if anything) in the last few years, perhaps in a style similar to the Five Bagatelles story. For some examples, how about Yuri, Edward & Ein (and the Major), Mac, Noriko? I'd mention The Twins too, but their current story seems to have been on hold for a while now. (officially having a "desk job" does not necessarily mean you can't be doing other things too) Jeanne
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Gryphon
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Feb-03-14, 12:02 PM (EST) |
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5. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>Not new characters, but checking in with some old characters we have >seen very little of (if anything) in the last few years, perhaps in a >style similar to the Five Bagatelles story. For some examples, how >about Yuri, Edward & Ein (and the Major), Mac, Noriko?Mother of Grodd, have pity. I'm only one old, tired man. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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JeanneHedge
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Feb-06-14, 06:17 PM (EST) |
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38. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>Not new characters, but checking in with some old characters we have >>seen very little of (if anything) in the last few years, perhaps in a >>style similar to the Five Bagatelles story. For some examples, how >>about Yuri, Edward & Ein (and the Major), Mac, Noriko? > >Mother of Grodd, have pity. I'm only one old, tired man. no one says you have to do it, or even consider it Jeanne
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Gryphon
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Feb-06-14, 06:27 PM (EST) |
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41. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>Mother of Grodd, have pity. I'm only one old, tired man. > >no one says you have to do it, or even consider it Well, of course I have to consider it, someone asked for it. I'm not a sociopath, that kind of thing is basically automatic. :) That said, my moan was mainly tongue-in-cheek. Although like most such, it had a grain of truth in it. I am feeling pretty old and tired of late. Mind you, a lot of that is just because it's February. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Mercutio
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Feb-03-14, 07:30 PM (EST) |
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12. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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> For some examples, how about Yuri Food for thought; Yuri has a whole other kid we know next to nothing about. I like to imagine that sometime around 2420 Afura is going to be a bit chuffed her parents didn't get around to her in a timely enough fashion for her to share in all the awesome adventures her half-siblings and pseudo-cousins engaged in growing up on account of being between the ages of five and twelve at the time. :) -Merc Keep Rat |
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Gryphon
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Feb-03-14, 07:36 PM (EST) |
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13. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>> For some examples, how about Yuri > >Food for thought; Yuri has a whole other kid we know next to nothing >about. Ah, Afura. She's kind of an orphan - not in the customary sense, obviously, but in terms of story construction. She was originally intended to be part of a "second wave" that happened around 2410... and then the rest of it didn't happen. >I like to imagine that sometime around 2420 Afura is going to be a bit >chuffed her parents didn't get around to her in a timely enough >fashion for her to share in all the awesome adventures her >half-siblings and pseudo-cousins engaged in growing up on account of >being between the ages of five and twelve at the time. :) I think "chuffed" means the opposite of what you think it means... --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Mercutio
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Feb-03-14, 08:03 PM (EST) |
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16. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>I think "chuffed" means the opposite of what you think it means... ... dammit, yes, you are correct. For someone who uses as much british slang as I do you'd think I'd have gotten that one right. It somehow got tangled up in my mind with "huffy". -Merc Keep Rat |
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Gryphon
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Feb-03-14, 08:05 PM (EST) |
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17. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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> >>I think "chuffed" means the opposite of what you think it means... > >... dammit, yes, you are correct. > >For someone who uses as much british slang as I do you'd think I'd >have gotten that one right. It somehow got tangled up in my mind with >"huffy". Yeah, I think you were reaching for "miffed" and then thought "wait, no, in a huff" and it all went horribly, horribly wrong. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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JeanneHedge
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Feb-06-14, 06:20 PM (EST) |
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39. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>I like to imagine that sometime around 2420 Afura is going to be a bit >chuffed her parents didn't get around to her in a timely enough >fashion for her to share in all the awesome adventures her >half-siblings and pseudo-cousins engaged in growing up on account of >being between the ages of five and twelve at the time. :) IIRC, being in that age range didn't stop Corwin and Len from a significant adventure or two (for which Dorothy is rather thankful) Jeanne
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BobSchroeck
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Feb-03-14, 09:35 AM (EST) |
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3. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-03-14 AT 09:36 AM (EST) I wouldn't mind seeing how pretty much any of the interesting folks from RWBY might fit into UF -- Remnant strikes me as a perfect candidate for a nearly-forgotten Rim world, making a go against a hostile ecosphere much in the same way that Ragol does, using its own unique set of Getter-sensitive ores and crystals to fuel all manner of devices and personal abilities. And of course, they'd all make good Duelist candidates.If pressed for specific characters, I'd say I'd love to see Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren meet up with the folks at DSM. Nora because she's a hoot and a half, and Lie Ren because they're a matched set. -- Bob ------------------- My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite. |
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Narutaki
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Feb-03-14, 06:00 PM (EST) |
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8. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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With all the references to tokusatsu in UF -- Ultraman, Godzilla, and allusions to Super Sentai -- where's the love for Kamen Rider? I could totally see Phillip and Shotarou(aka Kamen Rider Double) as detectives(possibly Grey Lensmen?) in New Avalon or someplace. Of course, there's something like 40-plus years of material to cover when it comes to Kamen Rider... how could to fit it all in? Maybe if all the evil organizations that the Showa Riders fought were precursors of Big Fire, or Big Fire-esque organizations? ...when all else fails, it's all Decade's fault! |
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Gryphon
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Feb-03-14, 06:34 PM (EST) |
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10. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>With all the references to tokusatsu in UF -- Ultraman, Godzilla, and >allusions to Super Sentai -- where's the love for Kamen Rider? Never seen it! My only exposure to Kamen Rider is the kid in early Ninja High School* who delivered for the noodle restaurant. --G. * who may well also be in later Ninja High School, but I've only read early Ninja High School, so, you know -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Mercutio
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Feb-03-14, 07:56 PM (EST) |
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14. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-03-14 AT 08:01 PM (EST) Oh man. A fresh shiny wishlist thread. Should I write a manifesto about Friendship is Magic?... no. Not today. But! Other things. It's funny... if I'd taken part in the original thread, a year ago, it would have been just a very long rant about getting Atla into UF somehow. How times do change. As others have noted in this thread, I wouldn't mind checking in on old friends at some point. In particular, I'd like to see that Leverage story finally see the light of day, or some more stuff with the Jedi Academy Harry Potter Cast. Although frankly, I imagine someone somewhere has already written that. But I digress. Paring things down, my top three "haven't appeared in UF, would like to see'em in New Frontier, think they'd be appropriate" picks are, in ascending order... 3) Loki. No, not the dead guy. And not MCU Loki, either. I'm as big a member of the Cult of Hiddleston as the next guy, but there's not a good way to shoehorn him in anyway and frankly, his conceptual space is mostly occupied by Akio anyway. No, I mean Child Loki, from Kieron Gillen's wonderful, spectacular run on Journey into Mystery. There was a long period there where I wasn't reading any Marvel title that didn't involve Matt Fraction. I made an exception for Kieron and have not regretted it for a single day. Child Loki thematically fits UF in all the right ways and is just an amazing character, and with the pre-existing Asgard stuff here in the setting... well. There's just so much potential there. 2) Elphaba Thropp. Yes. That Elphaba Thropp. Book or musical flavor, I'm not picky. Anthy's witchery is coming along nicely these days, but she could probably use some additional mentoring/peer review, and the Wicked Witch of the West is just about the gold standard for witching it up, really. I mean, come on. The Shire of all places made it into UF, Oz isn't that much a stretch, especially since Ace is hanging around somewhere. Or hell, she could just be an awesome Orion lady. I'm pretty easy. And topping the list... 1) Elsa the Snow Queen. I feel no need whatsoever to justify my love for Elsa. To do so would be to cheapen it. :) Honorable mentions: -Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey. Go watch White Collar. -Shego. Really, with Phil on the production team I don't get how that hasn't already happened. -Kate Bishop and Clint Barton. The Matt Fraction versions only, please. -IPO Agent Philip Coulson. This time, yes, the MCU version. -Unicron. Theoretically, with Cybertron Dreams no longer canon, he has, in fact, yet to actually show up. :) -The brave men and women of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Gryphon
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Feb-03-14, 08:16 PM (EST) |
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18. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>3) Loki. No, not the dead guy. And not MCU Loki, either. I'm as big a >member of the Cult of Hiddleston as the next guy, but there's not a >good way to shoehorn him in anywaySure there is. You just haven't thought of it. That's usually what people mean when they say things like that. :) >No, I mean Child Loki, from >Kieron Gillen's wonderful, >spectacular run on Journey into Mystery. Not to be confused, as my brain always does, with Karen Gillan's run on Journey into Mystery, which was frankly a bit of a letdown. >Child Loki thematically fits UF in all the right ways and is just an >amazing character, and with the pre-existing Asgard stuff here in the >setting... well. There's just so much potential there. There are a couple of problems there, but the main one is that I haven't read a Marvel comic - or indeed any comic - in... oh... quite a few years at this point, and cannot really be said to have any burning ambition to do so again anytime soon. Which would make research challenging. >2) Elphaba Thropp. Yes. That Elphaba Thropp. You say that - as people so often do these days - as if I ought to know what you are talking about... >1) Elsa the Snow Queen. ... and again. >-Kate Bishop and Clint Barton. The Matt Fraction versions only, >please. I made a joke a couple years ago about how convenient it was that Jeremy Renner kept playing characters who could seamlessly be folded into a single UF character. His characters from The Hurt Locker, The Bourne Legacy, and The Avengers are obviously all the same guy: a former Earthforce EOD technician who was converted into a super-secret sleeper agent against his will, broke free of his sinister handlers, and then found the solace his tortured soul craved in the structure and method of the ancient, long-neglected archery form practiced by the Grammaton Clerics of the Order of St. Ignatius before the invention of firearms and the gun kata. I see no reason to walk that back. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Bodhi
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Feb-03-14, 08:53 PM (EST) |
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19. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>I made a joke a couple years ago about how convenient it was that >Jeremy Renner kept playing characters who could seamlessly be folded >into a single UF character. His characters from The Hurt >Locker, The Bourne Legacy, and The Avengers are >obviously all the same guy: a former Earthforce EOD technician who was >converted into a super-secret sleeper agent against his will, broke >free of his sinister handlers, and then found the solace his tortured >soul craved in the structure and method of the ancient, long-neglected >archery form practiced by the Grammaton Clerics of the Order of St. >Ignatius before the invention of firearms and the gun kata. I see no >reason to walk that back. :) That works! That's awesome, Gryph. Hell, it'd be easy to have Geoff run into him and Brother Neo crossing paths on separate missions. Or, even better, Sister Destiny and EOD-Archer-badass get pinned down (against CoM, Big Fire, bad guys du jour) and Geoff is the nearest friendly operator. Hell, almost makes me want to write it. Except then, Merc'd want to bust my chops, too. -Bodhi Elphaba Thropp? The wicked witch? IDIC in action, I guess. |
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Mercutio
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Feb-03-14, 08:53 PM (EST) |
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20. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>3) Loki. No, not the dead guy. And not MCU Loki, either. I'm as big a >>member of the Cult of Hiddleston as the next guy, but there's not a >>good way to shoehorn him in anyway > >Sure there is. You just haven't thought of it. That's usually what >people mean when they say things like that. :) Well, this is true. And frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing that particular flavor of Loki show up, because more Loki is always better than less Loki, in my opinion. :) But it seems like the story of Loki the Supervillain has been told. There still, in my opinion, is room for a Loki in UF, because Loki is just such a versatile and powerful character whenever you're dealing with awesome mythical Norse stuff, just not that Loki. As I said, I kind of feel like his conceptual space is currently being occupied by Akio, who does everything MCU Loki does and is better at it because MCU Loki has some actual scruples and human affection in him and Akio does... not. >>Child Loki thematically fits UF in all the right ways and is just an >>amazing character, and with the pre-existing Asgard stuff here in the >>setting... well. There's just so much potential there. > >There are a couple of problems there, but the main one is that I >haven't read a Marvel comic - or indeed any comic - in... oh... quite >a few years at this point, and cannot really be said to have any >burning ambition to do so again anytime soon. Which would make >research challenging. Ahhh, gotcha. I can't really blame you on this. I gave up on DC a long time ago. I still read a fair few comics, but these days I mostly follow specific creators, not brands or characters. I'd recommend some, but I think I just did that in a way (seriously, anything with Matt Fraction's name on it), and it is not as if you are... lacking in media to consume in general. >>2) Elphaba Thropp. Yes. That Elphaba Thropp. > >You say that - as people so often do these days - as if I ought to >know what you are talking about... Heh, that's a fair cop here. I never know what you've read or haven't read, as every time I think I understand your tastes you drop something like, say, an obscure Italian history of the Night Walkers or something into conversation, or genre fiction I'd never have pegged you on. Short version: 'bout twenty years, a fellow named Gregory Maguire wrote Wicked a fictional biography of Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West, of Wizard of Oz fame. It was... very, very good. Spawned a completely rocking Broadway musical and a series of sequels. I know what you're thinking, I mean... the Land of Oz isn't precisely what you'd call cutting edge genre fiction, but there you go. It was a thing that happened and it gave me my favorite fictional witch ever. (Anthy, sadly, will always be a close second.) So that's what I was doing there. Really, in a wishlist thread, my goal is "have awesome hypothetical conversations about UF" rather than "actually convince Ben of something." The latter is a bonus if and when it occurs. :) >>1) Elsa the Snow Queen. > >... and again. This is just me fanboying out over Frozen. :) >>-Kate Bishop and Clint Barton. The Matt Fraction versions only, >>please. > >I made a joke a couple years ago about how convenient it was that >Jeremy Renner kept playing characters who could seamlessly be folded >into a single UF character. His characters from The Hurt >Locker, The Bourne Legacy, and The Avengers are >obviously all the same guy: a former Earthforce EOD technician who was >converted into a super-secret sleeper agent against his will, broke >free of his sinister handlers, and then found the solace his tortured >soul craved in the structure and method of the ancient, long-neglected >archery form practiced by the Grammaton Clerics of the Order of St. >Ignatius before the invention of firearms and the gun kata. I see no >reason to walk that back. :) ... no. No, there wouldn't be, would there? Not sure that's toppable. Also are the Bourne movies worth watching after the first? I'm an enormous fan of the novels, and... well, the first one was okay. I'm generally a fan of Matt Damon. It was entertaining and all, but... no Carlos? Making Treadstone the heavies? Really? And I've heard vaguely that the franchise involved a lot of fridging of the women in Bourne's life, which is always a negative in my book. I just kind of never got around to the sequels. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Pasha
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Feb-03-14, 10:56 PM (EST) |
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21. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>Also are the Bourne movies worth watching after the first? I'm an >enormous fan of the novels, and... well, the first one was okay. I'm >generally a fan of Matt Damon. It was entertaining and all, but... no >Carlos? Making Treadstone the heavies? Really? And I've heard vaguely >that the franchise involved a lot of fridging of the women in Bourne's >life, which is always a negative in my book. I just kind of never got >around to the sequels. I really quite enjoyed them, although the first is, IMO, by far the best (they got a little obsessed with shakeycam latter on). As for fridging, IIRC he was only involved with the one woman, who's killed by a sniper who misses Bourne. -- -Pasha "Don't change the subject" "Too slow, already did." |
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Gryphon
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Feb-03-14, 11:10 PM (EST) |
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22. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-03-14 AT 11:13 PM (EST) >I'd recommend some, but I think I >just did that in a way (seriously, anything with Matt Fraction's name >on it), and it is not as if you are... lacking in media to consume in >general. I respect Fraction's work, I enjoyed the crap out of Five Fists of Science, and I have it on reasonably good authority that he's a pretty hoopy frood to hang out with in person... ... but I haaaaaated his run on Invincible Iron Man. Well, that's not entirely fair comment, I suppose. I haaaaaated his first arc on Invincible Iron Man and have no basis for comment on anything that followed, apart from general observations about the crackheadedness of the company-wide story arcs he presumably had to work within for the rest of his tenure on the book - which, in fairness, would probably have caused me to say "no, fuck that" even if I hadn't hated The Five Nightmares. But I did, so, moot point. >Heh, that's a fair cop here. I never know what you've read or haven't >read, as every time I think I understand your tastes you drop >something like, say, an obscure Italian history of the Night Walkers >or something into conversation, or genre fiction I'd never have pegged >you on. Just for the record, I didn't read The Night Walkers for sport, it was assigned in a class I was taking. I enjoyed it, and I think the benandanti legend is pretty cool overall, but it wasn't something I think I'd have picked up in a bookstore and thought, This is a topic I wish to know more about! Let me subscribe to your newsletter, Dr. Ginzburg. :) >Short version: 'bout twenty years, a fellow named Gregory Maguire >wrote Wicked a fictional biography of Elphaba Thropp, the >Wicked Witch of the West, of Wizard of Oz fame. The Wicked Witch of the West had a name? At the risk of sounding like a Star Trek fan, is that canon? (It's not going to affect my assessment either way, I'm just a bit curious, is all.) >Also are the Bourne movies worth watching after the first? I'm an >enormous fan of the novels, and... well, the first one was okay. I'm >generally a fan of Matt Damon. It was entertaining and all, but... no >Carlos? In hindsight, I've always thought it was hilarious that the bĂŞte noir of Ludlum's original novel was Carlos the Jackal, whom later scholarship has revealed to have been the comically incompetent Walter Mitty of the terrorist world. It's like reading a novel from the '30s speculating that in the '40s, the European dictator who would end up crushing half the world under his disciplined, fanatical, superbly equipped, initially-unstoppable juggernaut of an army would be Mussolini. In that respect, at least, The Bourne Identity would only conceivably have worked as a period piece set in the '70s, like the book, and A) that had already been attempted and B) it would still have been pretty friggin' silly. >And I've heard vaguely >that the franchise involved a lot of fridging of the women in Bourne's >life, which is always a negative in my book. As far as I know, there was only ever the one woman in Bourne's life in that sense, and she does get killed in the second film. That made me angry when it happened, though in retrospect Jason Bourne is very much the kind of person that sort of thing happens around. Maria's death in The Bourne Supremacy isn't quite as gratuitous as that, anyway. I mean, yes, it happens pretty much entirely for out-of-band reasons - because the filmmakers obviously assumed there would be no reason for Bourne to turn around and go after his pursuers if she was alive - but it's framed in a way that makes sense within the framework of the fictional universe the characters live in. (Rather more so than the canonical woman-in-refrigerator incident, which... uh, didn't. On any level.) I'd have done it differently, but they probably didn't figure they had time for the montage where he takes her to the mountain retreat and helps her multiclass into Intrepid Badass in her own right. :) Anyway. It's been a while since I watched Supremacy and I haven't seen Ultimatum, because I got that sick of Christopher Rouse's spastic music video editing style in Supremacy, but I haven't read or heard anything about Bourne having a love interest, or indeed time for one, in either one; and he's not actually in the fourth one, it's just called that because it's in that same universe. I liked The Bourne Legacy, but then I like Jeremy Renner's Universal Action Everyman character. He has a way of being just utterly weary at the appropriate points in the rampant badassery that's missing from a lot of the more square-jawed face-punchers in the league. (He does it in The Avengers when Hawkeye crashes through the window and has to just lie there for a second going Aaaagh, fuck, no superpowers. :) One's mileage may vary. There's a scene in Legacy where Renner's character, Aaron Cross, is in a room with another guy from the post-Treadstone super-soldier program he's part of, and he keeps doggedly trying to strike up a friendly conversation. It visibly unnerves the fuck out of the other agent that a) Cross is trying to engage with him on a human level and b) Cross is able to try to engage with him on a human level. That was about where I decided Legacy was going to be a likable film, in much the same way that my favorite parts of Identity are the bits where Bourne is, in spite of everything that's happened to him, completely human: MARIA You'd probably just forget about me anyway. BOURNE How could I forget about you? You're the only person I know. --G. "I guess you're not home." -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Mercutio
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23. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-04-14 AT 01:19 AM (EST) >I respect Fraction's work, I enjoyed the crap out of Five Fists of >Science, and I have it on reasonably good authority that he's a >pretty hoopy frood to hang out with in person... > >... but I haaaaaated his run on Invincible Iron Man.Okay, see, now I just don't know what to think, as it was the general awesomeness of his run on Invincible Iron Man that made me seek out everything he'd ever written. I enjoyed watching him turn Pepper Potts into a superhero in a way that didn't just make her Iron Maiden. I especially enjoyed watching Pepper Potts completely dominate Norman Osborne, and oh man, the way he managed to undo the character damage Civil War had done to Tony (who thought making Iron Man a supervillain was a good idea, I ask you) in a believable, interesting, and poignant way? I teared up. To be fair, Five Nightmares is the weakest arc of that whole run. >>Short version: 'bout twenty years, a fellow named Gregory Maguire >>wrote Wicked a fictional biography of Elphaba Thropp, the >>Wicked Witch of the West, of Wizard of Oz fame. > >The Wicked Witch of the West had a name? At the risk of >sounding like a Star Trek fan, is that canon? (It's not going >to affect my assessment either way, I'm just a bit curious, is all.) It isn't canon in the sense that L. Frank Baum ever assigned her one, no. She's just "the Witch" in the novels, much as she is in the movie. I suppose you could consider what Maguire was doing fanfic, as he simply took a public domain property and wrote his own stories about it, a la Alan Moore in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. At this point, to run with your Star Trek comparison, the Wicked Witch of the West being named Elphaba Thropp is equivalent to Uhura's first name being Nyota1 or Spock being the first Vulcan in Starfleet; it isn't technically canon, but over the past two decades it's become an enormously solid part of the brand, especially since more people these days are familiar with Wicked than they are the actual novels it bastardizes. She is also, obviously, not a crazy lady bent on getting her murder on in the direction of cherubic midwesterners in Wicked. I would not propose Anthy hang out with someone who cackles unironically, because Anthy? Has standards. >In hindsight, I've always thought it was hilarious that the bĂŞte >noir of Ludlum's original novel was Carlos the Jackal, whom >later scholarship has revealed to have been the comically incompetent >Walter Mitty of the terrorist world. It's like reading a novel from >the '30s speculating that in the '40s, the European dictator who would >end up crushing half the world under his disciplined, fanatical, >superbly equipped, initially-unstoppable juggernaut of an army would >be Mussolini. Also fun: Tom Clancy, who should have known better, featured Carlos' fanatical followers taking an amusement park hostage in order to force the French to release him as one of the major plot points of Rainbow Six. I have also actually met people who did not know that Carlos was a real person. Is a real person, I guess. I do take your overall point, but, well... I was sort of expecting effective fictional Carlos, not Treadstone, who were a curious blend of "ruthlessly efficient" and "comically inept." >>And I've heard vaguely >>that the franchise involved a lot of fridging of the women in Bourne's >>life, which is always a negative in my book. > >As far as I know, there was only ever the one woman in Bourne's >life in that sense, and she does get killed in the second film. That >made me angry when it happened, though in retrospect Jason Bourne is >very much the kind of person that sort of thing happens around. Huh. I'd heard there were actually a whole series of sympathy frags. That might just be one of those things one hears on the intertubes, I s'pose. And I am relieved for once that something is less hateful towards ladies than I had heard it was, usually it is the other way around! >(Rather more so than the canonical >woman-in-refrigerator incident, which... uh, didn't. On any level.) I have had very long and barely civil exchanges with otherwise intelligent people who just do not get why what happened to Alexandra deWitt was awful on the multiple levels it was. I'll just leave it at that. >Anyway. It's been a while since I watched Supremacy and I >haven't seen Ultimatum, because I got that sick of >Christopher Rouse's spastic music video editing style in Yeah, another reason I never made time for the sequels. >I liked The Bourne Legacy, but then I like Jeremy Renner's >Universal Action Everyman character. He has a way of being just >utterly weary at the appropriate points in the rampant >badassery that's missing from a lot of the more square-jawed >face-punchers in the league. (He does it in The Avengers when >Hawkeye crashes through the window and has to just lie there for a >second going Aaaagh, fuck, no superpowers. :) One's >mileage may vary. I heartily concur. Renner has great screen presence in general, which is more important for that sort of character than being an actual skilled thespian is, in my opinion. Not that Renner is unskilled, of course. >There's a scene in Legacy where Renner's character, Aaron >Cross, is in a room with another guy from the post-Treadstone >super-soldier program he's part of, and he keeps doggedly trying to >strike up a friendly conversation. It visibly unnerves the >fuck out of the other agent that a) Cross is trying to engage >with him on a human level and b) Cross is able to try to engage >with him on a human level. Well, you had my curiosity, and now you have my attention. The previews did not in any way indicate Legacy would be that sort of film; in fact, they gave the distinct impression that what we'd receive would be Jason Bourne, but now with less of that annoying humanity and more soulless revenge killin'. Looks like I know what I'll be doing the next couple days. >MARIA >You'd probably just forget about me anyway. > >BOURNE >How could I forget about you? You're the only person I know. The ability to deliver lines like that and make it work is part of why I have such affection for Matt Damon. I don't think he's the bestest actor in the world or anything but when he decides "okay, I'm going to be super earnest now" it's very hard not to go "awwww." -Merc Keep Rat 1I am aware that in the Abramsverse this is her actual name, yes. I trust people get my point anyways. |
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Gryphon
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Feb-04-14, 02:29 AM (EST) |
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24. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>a la Alan Moore in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. ... only presumably with fewer characters being buggered to death by Mr. Hyde. What the fuck, Alan. This, this is why we can't have nice things. >She is also, obviously, not a crazy lady bent on getting her murder on >in the direction of cherubic midwesterners in Wicked. In fairness, I'd be up for a little murder too if my name was Elphaba Thropp and I couldn't find a sympathetic judge. >I have also actually met people who did not know that Carlos was a >real person. Maybe they're confusing him with the Jackal from Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal. Who is not Carlos the Jackal, and who is actually rather scary until the end of the book. (Amusingly, I am told Carlos ended up being "the Jackal" because the cops found a copy of The Day of the Jackal in his apartment when they raided it one day while he was out.) >Is a real person, I guess. Yes, astonishingly enough, he's still alive, in a prison somewhere. He somehow managed not to get killed by the cops or the other terrorists. >The previews did not in any way indicate Legacy would be that sort of >film; in fact, they gave the distinct impression that what we'd >receive would be Jason Bourne, but now with less of that annoying >humanity and more soulless revenge killin'. Well, don't get me wrong, there's plenty of killin', but on Cross's part it's mostly of the Freeman's Mind "If you guys would stop shooting at me I wouldn't have to keep killing you! Give peace a chance! Or at least stand still!" variety. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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BobSchroeck
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Feb-04-14, 08:55 AM (EST) |
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25. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>She is also, obviously, not a crazy lady bent on getting her murder on >>in the direction of cherubic midwesterners in Wicked. >In fairness, I'd be up for a little murder too if my name was Elphaba >Thropp and I couldn't find a sympathetic judge. She has other issues -- one could very accurately describe her as the Embittered Idealist of the West -- that weigh more heavily on her mind. On the meta level, her (first) name is constructed -- in homage to one of the stories about the origin of "OZ" -- from L. Frank Baum's initials. -- Bob ------------------- My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite. |
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Mercutio
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Feb-05-14, 02:34 AM (EST) |
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33. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>Well, don't get me wrong, there's plenty of killin', but on Cross's >part it's mostly of the Freeman's Mind "If you guys would stop >shooting at me I wouldn't have to keep killing you! >Give peace a chance! Or at least stand still!" variety. Having now seen it... it isn't a cinematic tour de force or anything, but Renner was quite enjoyable in it, and it was, pleasingly, not at all what I was expecting. Somehow I got the impression it was going to involve a lot of blood-soaked mayhem, and instead I was left with the distinct feeling that what the writers really wanted to do was tell a cerebral story of what happens when intelligence services fail people on every possible level, but felt it was necessary to put in a few token gunfights and motorcycle chases. Aesthetically, it felt like Bourne Identity had a kid with the 2011 version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Best moment; when Cross comes to the slow, awful, angry realization that Marta really, truly doesn't have any fucking clue what she's about. I laughed probably more than was appropriate. Yes, Aaron. She really was that naive. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Peter Eng
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Feb-04-14, 01:07 PM (EST) |
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29. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>>3) Loki. No, not the dead guy. And not MCU Loki, either. I'm as big a >>>member of the Cult of Hiddleston as the next guy, but there's not a >>>good way to shoehorn him in anyway >> >>Sure there is. You just haven't thought of it. That's usually what >>people mean when they say things like that. :) > >Well, this is true. And frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing that >particular flavor of Loki show up, because more Loki is always better >than less Loki, in my opinion. :) > >But it seems like the story of Loki the Supervillain has been told. >Let me know what you think of Loki: Agent of Asgard when it comes out. > >>>-Kate Bishop and Clint Barton. The Matt Fraction versions only, >>>please. >> >>...a former Earthforce EOD technician who was >>converted into a super-secret sleeper agent against his will, broke >>free of his sinister handlers, and then found the solace his tortured >>soul craved in the structure and method of the ancient, long-neglected >>archery form practiced by the Grammaton Clerics of the Order of St. >>Ignatius before the invention of firearms and the gun kata. I see no >>reason to walk that back. :) > >... no. No, there wouldn't be, would there? Not sure that's toppable. > All you need then is his apprentice - probably one of New Avalon's nouveau riche who actually reinvented some of the early archery forms - and there you go! Peter Eng -- Insert humorous comment here. |
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Mercutio
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Feb-04-14, 03:40 PM (EST) |
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31. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>Let me know what you think of Loki: Agent of Asgard when it >comes out. You know, I gotta confess, I sort of lost track of things after Loki arranged to murder his own reincarnated child self from beyond the grave in order to replace him. I mean, yes, that was awesome, but I had me some attachments to Kid Loki and that sort of left me emotionally wrung out. A quick check of various internet resources apparently reveals that Loki did not, in fact, immediately resume being a self-destructive douchebag. So with him headlining a new series, maybe it is time to catch back up. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Mercutio
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Feb-10-14, 04:17 PM (EST) |
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46. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-14 AT 04:20 PM (EST) > a former Earthforce EOD technician who was >converted into a super-secret sleeper agent against his will, broke >free of his sinister handlers, and then found the solace his tortured >soul craved in the structure and method of the ancient, long-neglected >archery form practiced by the Grammaton Clerics of the Order of St. >Ignatius before the invention of firearms and the gun kata.Did he spend a year hunting witches after getting out of the monastery, though? :) And then there was that time he got elected the Mayor of Camden. He's lived an interesting life. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Verbena
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Feb-12-14, 03:07 PM (EST) |
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54. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>They don't like to talk about that. It's like the time Logan was >>stuck on Planet Renfaire for a year and had to make a living as a >>vampire hunter. It's just best not to ask. > >That's the planet they also call "Gramarye", isn't it? ...So what you're saying is Logan was a vampire hunter in spite of himself. (Hee!) -------- this world created by the hands of the gods everything is false everything is a LIE the final days have come now let everything be destroyed --mu |
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ebony14
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Feb-12-14, 09:00 AM (EST) |
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51. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>They don't like to talk about that. It's like the time Logan was >stuck on Planet Renfaire for a year and had to make a living as a >vampire hunter. It's just best not to ask. >He did get a pretty spiffy hat out of the deal, though. Seriously, though, I honestly expected the huge walking ham that was Frankenstein's monster in that film to break out with "Putting on the Ritz." He was that over the top. Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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ebony14
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Feb-12-14, 01:48 PM (EST) |
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53. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>Seriously, though, I honestly expected the huge walking ham >>that was Frankenstein's monster in that film to break out with >>"Putting on the Ritz." He was that over the top. > >Nobody does that number better than Adam at the annual BPRD >Questionable Talent Show. >Would that be where Abe Sapien breaks out his encyclopedic knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan? Or have they classified that as a Weapon of Mass Distortion and only used it for interrogating spooks, spectres (not the Spectre; Jim Corrigan may actually like G&S), and assorted poltergeists? :) Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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ebony14
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Feb-12-14, 04:53 PM (EST) |
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56. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>>Would that be where Abe Sapien breaks out his encyclopedic knowledge >>of Gilbert & Sullivan? Or have they classified that as a Weapon of >>Mass Distortion and only used it for interrogating spooks, spectres >>(not the Spectre; Jim Corrigan may actually like G&S), and assorted >>poltergeists? :) > >Nah, it was banned after his musical duel with Solus Mordin. Point to you, sir. Get 10 and you get a free sandwich. Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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mdg1
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Feb-04-14, 01:06 PM (EST) |
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28. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>A scene involves Max, Parker and *redacted* hanging on harnesses from >ceiling vents doing the "okay who goes first" look thing as they hang >over the McGuffin. I can think of three candidates off the top of my head: Lupin (of course) Kaito Kid Sorata Muon (who you've already used) Bizarrely, I could also see Kid Loki doing it. :) Mario |
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The Traitor
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Feb-05-14, 06:24 AM (EST) |
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34. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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If you like Leverage, you'll probably like Hustle a lot too, Leverage being basically US!Hustle. Heh, now I'm imagining Mickey Bricks conning a high-ranking member of the Psi Corps out of their personal fortune, because if anyone can pull a con job on a telepath, it's that guy. =] --- "She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards. |
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JeanneHedge
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Feb-06-14, 06:30 PM (EST) |
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42. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>2) Elphaba Thropp. Yes. That Elphaba Thropp. Book or musical flavor, >I'm not picky. > >Anthy's witchery is coming along nicely these days, but she could >probably use some additional mentoring/peer review, and the Wicked >Witch of the West is just about the gold standard for witching it up, >really. I mean, come on. The Shire of all places made it into >UF, Oz isn't that much a stretch, especially since Ace is hanging >around somewhere. Or hell, she could just be an awesome Orion lady. >I'm pretty easy. While I do like Elphaba, if more witches/sorcerers were to be introduced, I'd like to see the gang from Silent Mobius >And topping the list... > >1) Elsa the Snow Queen. > >I feel no need whatsoever to justify my love for Elsa. To do so would >be to cheapen it. :) Because she has the same voice as Elphaba, her big number is of a similar theme to Defying Gravity, and she's really cool. :) Jeanne |
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JeanneHedge
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Feb-06-14, 06:26 PM (EST) |
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40. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>While it's a great thread, what about those characters who have >already been introduced, who have potential, but haven't had any >screen time yet? Lets see some of them take center stage for a story >or two.... How do you introduce a character but not give them any screen time? Jeanne |
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Mercutio
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Feb-06-14, 09:49 PM (EST) |
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44. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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>How do you introduce a character but not give them any screen time? There are a few of them, but it's a tiny number. The aforementioned Leverage crew are one example; they exist only in previews so far. The other ones I can think of are mostly guys from the Featured Documents section. I don't think the Doctors Jones have ever actually shown up, for example, nor has much of Team Deadpool. -Merc Keep Rat |
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Verbena
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Feb-10-14, 04:56 PM (EST) |
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50. "RE: Characters you'd love to see in NF"
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After having read Twilight again for the first time in a long time, I find myself wondering more and more about Eris, Teleute, and Kaguya. The former two especially, since they have more import to the story overall, but Kaguya only showed up in that one scene and I know even less of her than the other two. --------
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