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Mercutio
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20. "RE: Try, Try Again"
In response to message #18
 
   >>2003 called. It wants its update schedule back. Also its lawnmowner,
>>and those DVDs.
>
>I know, right? Actually, 2001 is the year that really makes me step
>back and go "what". I noticed that when I was recording the Symphony
>1 and Symphony 2 audio.

What's super crazy weird for me as a reader is I still largely think of Symphony of the Sword as this bold new direction for EPU.

SoS is older right now than UF was when S1M1 was written.

>No, it's a thing: "kick it all {big time|old school|etc.} stylee". I
>think the extra "e" is just so you know it's pronounced with the E
>sound at the end.

So it's a thing I've just never heard of then. Fair enough.

I wouldn't have pointed it out at all, but it was a combination of 'I've never, ever seen that before, and my brain wanted to end that sentence with 'styles' or 'stylez'' and 'there are at least two other grammatical errors in here. So let's take a risk of looking dumb.'

>That's all down to Phil. As seen in another thread, my TiVo went on a
>bender, I was very confused, and then there were DVDs. :)

The ironical thing here is that it took something like five years to convince Phil to watch the thing (he finally bit the bullet last year, which meant that he avoided the crazy withdrawal those of us who watched ATLA as it aired had been going through since 2008) and he mainlined the stuff even faster than YOU did and immediately transformed into a total evangelist about it himself.

>My obvious love for its protagonist notwithstanding, I actually have a
>somewhat... complex... relationship with The Legend of Korra,
>which I don't want to sidetrack this thread by getting into in depth,
>but the original show was one of those where-were-you-all-my-life
>moments.

Your complex relationship with Legend of Korra is one shared by many fans. The series has... structural issues. I'll leave it at that.

And you're lucky that you got to watch ATLA in a sensible way. While it was airing, it was sort of... "Hi! Hope you enjoyed the enormous kick in the head that was 'Crossroads of Destiny.' Nine month wait until we show the next season! Oh, and another nine-month wait between 'Day of Black Sun' and the series finale, in which we'll burn off all ten episodes in a single week. But we'll air everything up to 'The Boiling Rock' in Canada six months before it airs in the states, so you can either be a filthy pirate OR have no idea what everyone else is talking about."

There was frustration, is what I'm saying.

>>Stylistic quibbling: maybe consider replacing that 'but' with an
>>'and.' Fluid BUT surefooted implies that you would normally expect
>>those two states to be exclusive
>
>No, what it means is that she's very firm on her feet without actually
>stomping around like an earthbender. If there's a word choice
>problem, it's "surefooted", not "but". :)

Quibbling withdrawn!

>>On the chance she's using "my boys" in a literal sense
>
>It's deliberately ambiguous. She might mean a team her sons (if she
>has any) were on; she might mean a team she coached, or one she
>sponsored, or possibly just one she was rooting for.

Hence my qualifying the statement before launching into the rant.

>>ending in violence) argument with someone like Anakyn shar Atrados or
>>Rianna Santova about fear, anger, and rage being "cheap imitations"
>>and invalid paths to power.
>
>There are certainly hairs to be split there (fear is always shit, even
>the Reform Sith would probably agree to that, but there's the whole
>directed v. nonspecific anger thing), but not when you're talking to a
>confused teenager who sets things on fire with her mind.

Hey, Zuko was a confused teenager who set things on fire with his mind, and he...

He, uh...

Yeah, you know what? Go with Korra's way.

>>Calling it now: Duran -is- Naga.
>>
>>Reincarnation is neat that way.
>
>I'm not sure it's that weird; Duran's a robot. :)

... you know, you spend literally hours combing through the forums and the stories for the express purpose of NOT looking dumb due to lack of knowledge, and still. It's like the universe is punishing me for all that stuff I did.

More seriously, given that robots have souls, I don't see any reason they can't reincarnate or be reincarnations themselves. I sort of assume that a robot soul is just like the soul of any other sentient being; it can linger as a ghost, it can be reborn into another body, etc etc. Could be wrong about this, of course.

>Also, he's afraid of Toph Beifong. Soon as he heard she was coming?
>Straight up the tower.

Toph is kind of like Batman; she's never actually killed or even seriously injured anyone, but she has the kind of reputation that makes you think she has some sort of skull throne somewhere. :)

>There isn't really a gift pile, as such. I mean, they're grown-up
>people who already have all the kitchen stuff they need; the
>traditional reasons for wedding gifts don't really apply, and they
>would've felt strange expecting stuff just for stuff's sake anyway.
>There were a few very personal items we'll get to later on, but no
>general Swag Table.

Cultural differences at work, then. I personally would feel weird attending a wedding as anything other than somebodies +1 and -not- bringing a gift. But I'm also italian, and we consider an envelope with a check to be an appropriate wedding gift no matter how rich the couple in question actually is.

>I thought I mentioned that someplace in the story, but I might've just
>thought about it. Stuff gets dropped...

To be fair, I did some skimming around the displays of martial prowess. I like me a good display of martial prowess, but it was a distraction from people talking. :)

-Merc
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