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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>On Sat 5/Apr/2014 Andrerw Perron replied:<div><div>> On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 08:52:26 +0000 (UTC), Saxon Brenton wrote:<br>> <br>> > Authors notes: A second Dr Who pastiche that references the <br>> > _spaceQuest Raven_ #4 story. <br>> <br>> I really have to read that.<br> </div><div><div>Hurm. Now that brings up an interesting idea...</div><div> </div><div>From memory that story - in fact the whole series - was </div><div>servicable LNH writing. Readable storytelling, solid plots, </div><div>good characterisation. But at the same time it didn't reach </div><div>the giddy heights of drama as, say, Legion of Occult Heroes </div><div>or Misfits, or hysterically funny silliness of Load Island </div><div>Renegades or Net.Vigilante. A quick google search suggests </div><div>that it never made it into the Hall of Fame nominations.</div><div> </div><div>Now LNH fanboys (both Andrew and myself count) would probably </div><div>adhere to the principle: It's an LNH story, and therefore must</div><div> be read, QED. (It's just a matter of finding the time.)</div><div> </div><div>But *my* main reason for coming back to it again and again is </div><div>that it lays the basis for the pseudo Dr Who lore in the </div><div>Looniverse that I can build on. (And did, gleefully, in the </div><div>Occultism Kid episode of the Infinite Leadership Crisis.) </div><div>Because playing with continuity is fun.</div><div> </div><div>So I'm thinking... There'd be a qualifiable difference between </div><div>a story that get's recommended because it's won a RACCie or </div><div>RACCie Hall of Fame, and one that's useful because it's integral </div><div>to continuity. A difference in the way it gets used, as well...</div><div> </div><div>Hmm? What? Oh, no, there's no particular point I'm getting at. </div><div>I'm just rambling out loud.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>---</div><div>Saxon Brenton</div><div>currently reading: TARDIS Eruditorium vol.1 ed.2</div></div></div> </div></body>
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