SW10/HCC: The Tape #2: THE POWER OF THE TAPE! Clip

[Andrew Perron]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 21:48:52 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:

> "The Tape has a pretty standard supporting cast. His girlfriend is Janna 
> James, and we don't worry very much about what she does for a living. 
> His arch-nemesis is General Shitflinger. I can say shit for this 
> interview, right? We spell that dollar sign, number sign, exclamation, 
> plus sign. His resemblance to a chimpanzee is intentional."

Hah!

> Caption: Ben Edmond, March 28, 1999.

Oho.  I assume this is the reference it seems like.

> Janna's military commander 
> (and enemy of The Tape), "Spamflinger" Tregg Bandler, is ranting.

Ahhhhh, just the kind of censorship they'd slip it in with.

> Spamflinger: "Bullspam. No sail's gonna move a whole planet!"

Heeheehee

> Janna: "But it is! The Tape can make tape stick to anything! We gave him 
> a planet's worth of double-sided-sticky aluminum duct tape! It not only 
> reflects the solar wind, it sticks to space to slow things down!

XD Of course!

> The movie's science is intentionally loose. I doubt the movie writers 
> really care what the interplanetary radio transmission delay is, or 
> where The Tape put a planet's worth of tape.

When you have "it sticks to space", I think you're a bit beyond worrying
about those.

> "Spamflinger" was called "$#!+flinger" (yes, with the special 
> characters) in The Tape's comic books. You can bet there's lots of 
> fanboy outrage that his movie name makes him look less like a vengeful 
> chimpanzee and more like a cafeteria lady.

I dunno, it seems like the kind of change that'd be pretty easily accepted,
IMHO.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, versus not getting him in there at all.