REVIEWS: End Of Month Reviews #98 - February 2012 [Spoilers]

[Saxon Brenton]

Lalo replied to Andrew replying to me:
>> I believe they're all LNH20 counterparts; Lalo seems very much into
>> Adaptation Distilling them down to their basic concepts, and importing the
>> classic versions would run counter to that - especially as we still haven't
>> found out what happens to them in the end.
> 
> Word. Those are counterparts; those are not counterparts of the *whole* 
> team to begin with; there's at least one character that's dead and is 
> going to stay dead in the Looniverse; so it's pretty diverged too. And 
> the “counterpartness” will also have some major differences; for one 
> thing, none of those characters has any ties with any other LNH20 
> characters not belonging to me, which was a huge part of the original 
> conceit for Acra Flight.
 
Okay.  But even with some variance that still means that the team as a whole 
looks like its is subject to causing catastrophes.  In a parallel history 
kind of way.  It's not quite:
 
{Lady Bracknell voice} 
To have caused one catastrophe and gone on the run from the law, New 
Misfits, may be regarded as a misfortune. To cause two looks like 
carelessness.
{end Lady Bracknell voice}
 
But, you know, it's getting kind of close.
 
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Saxon Brenton