aside from the main comments everyone has voiced <ie: WOW LIZA> I have a few stand out moments:

-Mia owns a stuffed BEHOLDER? <for those unfamiliar with the D&D game and metaverse, the beholder is a rathr nasty little beasty with a great many magical powers, and it looks pretty much exactly like the description of Mia's stuffed toy>

-Garibaldi chiming in on 'spear and magic HELmet'? Man, I really wish I had seen more early B5, because he was way too angsty later in the series to even make that scene possible.

-The battleship Pennsylvania? All this time to get the name of Derek's command, and I totally fail to parse the significance.

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The WDF Pennsylvania is Truss' old command (i.e., the companion vessel to Derek's old command). I don't know what significance it has beyond that, though.

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Well, Gryphon and the crew certainly know how to keep the readership interested.

I wonder what new twists and turns are ahead for the Duelists' in Another Christmas Rose ?

The Highlights

Gorgon Ghidra - I guess 'cute' is in the eye of the beholder.

The Castle - So it used to be a Jedi temple. Neat. :)

Clarissa Broadbank at DSM - ... at least the Ragnarok group get a little break.

Belldandy Wishbringer - " ... half the boys and a couple of girls ..." :)
Talking to the sound board - Not too suprising, she talked to an airplane in the manga. :)

Celestial Pizza and Zach Stevens - Wow... 3 different universes. Zach really gets around. :)

Liza Shustal - I am so happy that she makes it back. I had asked a while ago what it would take for her to change her ways and I can see that it was a lot.

I think one the reasons I like her so much now is she's a person redeemed from a person we all loved to hate. I'm sure all of us have a person we thought we were better off never knowing but they stayed around anyways and we were glad when they finally left our lives. While they might have been actually a good person, we never know this because of the way we perceive them. (And most probably are pricks no matter what, but I'm making an example here.)

What Liza represents to me is a second chance to know a person in a different light. It's a pity Real Life doesn't usually work this way - the Earth would be a better place if it were more common.

*sigh*

Great work, Gryph. I look forward to Another Christmas Rose.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Zack Seaholm - Anime fan, weathernut, worshipper of the goddess Belldandy.

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Zack Seaholm - Anime fan, weathernut, worshipper of the goddess Belldandy.

I can't believe you actually managed to make me actually worry about Liza. I'm not a very forgiving soul. Excellent.

The Halloween party was GREAT. Moltar -shattered- me, explosively. I was wishing I could get an oxygen tank out of subspace when I got to Spear and Magic HELmet!

Corwin said "You know why." That relationship is nice to read, but painful to watch. I've been there. It's not the same boat, but it's only a sea-lane over. I have to hope it works out for him. I worry for him more than Utena. Male solidarity, that, most likely, but, assuming Anthy comes back he is the one with the most to lose.

I also winced at Corwin's and Vee's exchange. It seems to happen quite often, that people take people's expressions of their feelings as elaborate jokes and teases. It also seems that people too often take a rejection on a certain level as a blanket rejection. They both handled that poorly.

I have come to the conclusion that I wouldn't enjoy Azalynn's company on any level higher than a background presence. She's too open, too casual about physical contact. She's very likable and I do like her, but I'd be a nervous wreck around her.

I so want to live in a place with miles of fresh roads and a near-deserted superhighway. Of course, I want a Ford GT-40, too... (a UF tech-level GT-40! WOO!)

Zach's back. Hey. He's a guitarist right? If Miki really doesn't work out...

TRB

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