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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
twipper
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Dec-19-06, 03:53 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: Annotations: S3M1"
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>>>3043 In retrospect, this whole Valiant thing fails on a >few levels. Don't get me wrong, it led to some satisfying moments, >but it's such a huge and abrupt departure from what's gone before that >it jars the sensibilities, not to mention that it has a tendency to >stretch many readers' credulity. I wanted to get something of >an early-UF-without-quite-so-many-jokes feel with it, and a kind of >Tom Swiftian vibe given the youth of the key cast members involved. I >looked to things like Legion of Super-Heroes and the >aforementioned Tom Swift adventures for precedent and more or less >convinced myself that this was a perfectly viable direction to take. >And maybe it is, but now it just feels weird - not only because >the core cast is so young to be doing the things they're doing, but >because the sudden leap into straight-up space opera is like stepping >off an escalator to find oneself in a rock quarry. > >I don't have so much of a problem with the Fourth Symphony; they're >older there, around the same age that the founding Wedge Defenders >were when they began their great adventure, and at a time in their >lives when one expects things to change. Today I think it would've >been better if I had waited until then, around 2409-2410, to >start their space adventures. > >Of course, that would have left me with the problem of what they did >for the intervening years. One of the reasons I took the step of >making the Third Symphony space opera in the first place was because I >felt I had pretty well mined out the "adventures in high school" vein. > Plus, so much of what was going on, if only in the background, in the >first two Symphonies had to do with repairing the damage left behind >in the wake of Revolutionary Girl Utena. By the end of the >Second Symphony, that's pretty well done. Maybe I should've left them >more or less alone for a few years and let them finish school >uneventfully before picking them back up as young adults to continue >their adventures in a new format, with a new series title... > >... but what's done is done. >>>Here I'd disagree. You introduced it nicely back with Utena's introduction into the IPO reserve. Given the shear number of talented people surrounding her, using them (even at their age) as space opera hero's works very nicely. You avoided several pitfalls (such as not allowing them to single handedly defeat every klingon on the cruiser) that would have broken the suspencion of disbelief. Not one character acted outside of their already developed skill sets (ignoring the introduction of Kozue's piloting aptitude). It didn't seem jarring or disjoined to me at least. On the other hand, I enjoy good space opera and that was exactly what this was. So I admit to being somewhat biased. Brian
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