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Andrew Perron observed:<br> <br>> Heh heh heh. Man, updating the LNH timeline, EDH was nothing <br>> compared to some of the stuff (summarized at the end as "Where <br>> The Heck Does This Go").<br> <br>True, but it's a gag I've used before, so I wanted to run with it.<br> <br>[...]<br> <br>> It's interesting that he's not angsting at all about either the <br>> reasons he's locked out of the Plot Device Room *or* the fact <br>> that people don't trust him because of those actions.<br> <br>Yes. And without going into all the minutiue of why he thinks like <br>that, the quick summary would be to quote Eleanor Roosevelt: 'Do <br>what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticised <br>anyway.'<br> <br>>> The discussion concludes with the pithy summary that the forces of <br>>> comedy and drama are simultaneously making the world more random and <br>>> structured (drama to give the universe form, and comedy to give it <br>>> movement? If so, then there's another idea from LNH classic),<br>> <br>> Ooooooh, I like that.<br> <br>It's reworking of a line from an old Starlin comic, where Master Order and <br>Lord Chaos state their depenence on each other: 'Order to give the <br>universe form, chaos to give it movement' And now that I come to think <br>about it, I can't remember if I've actually used that line in a <br>net.comic, or if it's simply something I've had tucked away for eventual <br>use...<br> <br>[...]<br> <br>>> In part 12 the p ## ower put ## out by the Spoon of Destiny and <br>>> the Retcon Ball causes ## the city ## of Net.ropolis to float into <br>>> the air, as well as being ## revealed ## as what's causing Doc <br>>> Nostalgia to be in two places at ## once.<br> <br>> I thought it was also implied that Mother Time had something to do <br>> with that.<br> <br>I'd forgotten about Mother Time.<br> <br>[...]<br> <br>>> - but I haven't been paying enough <br>>> attention to the backhistory discussions on the lnh-authors mailing <br>>> list to know which ones (if any) have been transported across from the <br>>> original setting, and which ones are their LNH20 counterparts.<br>><br>> I believe they're all LNH20 counterparts; Lalo seems very much into <br>> Adaptation Distilling them down to their basic concepts, and importing <br>> the classic versions would run counter to that - especially as we <br>> still haven't found out what happens to them in the end.<br> <br>Okay. I'll try to keep that in mind.<br> <br>[...]<br> <br>>> But the<br>>> newcomer that the group gets to boggle at is the obsessive compulsive <br>>> Sgt Charles T. Carver, who they meet when the army arrives to take the <br>>> miscreants into custody.<br>> <br>> He seems less "obsessive compulsive" and more "wack-a-doodle".<br> <br>Very probably.<br> <br>[...]<br> <br>>> (I have a half-baked but amusing<br>>> vision of Masterplan Lad roaming<br>>> around the LNH20 setting acting as an antihero, trying to undermine <br>>> the setting purely because he sees it as the product of a villainous <br>>> scheme and therefore illegitimate.)<br>><br>> See, I don't think something LNH20-style is what MPL's worried about. <br>> He seems more focused on a DC-style take-what-exists-apart than an <br>> Ultimate Universe.<br> <br>> Good point.<br> <br>>> [ Twitter appeared, moving in with super speed. "Hey wow. Will <br>>> you look at this mess," she said, gazing around the mess in a <br>>> particularly sightseer-ish way.<br>> <br>> Oh my. <3 (Oh hey, I should put these appearances in the wiki...)<br> <br>Er. While that's a nice idea, if you put in everyone's minor appearnaces<br>I think you'll be creating a lot of work for yourself.<br> <br>>> [ "There's never anyone around to call on," he explained in a <br>>> reasonable tone. Or what he hoped was a reasonable tone. He was <br>>> feeling kind of woozy. "The Writers always contrive for there to be <br>>> only as many people as they need to drive the plot. You know that."<br>> <br>> Well jeez dude! It could've just as easily been an epic team-up battle <br>> if you weren't such a lone wolf! >:/<br> <br>[stares] Are you implying that ARAK should go and join a sub-team?<br> <br> <br>---<br>Saxon Brenton<br>Currently (re)reading: _Billion Year Spree_ by Brian Aldiss<br> <br> <BR> <BR><div></div> </div></body>
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