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Reply Subj: Re: Part 6: Filed and cataloged Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 05:08:02 am EST (Viewed 2 times) | |||||||
Quote: I still think Lara needs a "setting" though. She needs a home, a job, a cast, something that makes her "first choice" for a certain kind of story, not just an interchangable guest star.She's supposed to be mostly homeless since she doesn't really want to establish a permanent residence. I would like to give her something to do, but she hasn't really had a chance before, with everything being in flux and needing to help out with the LL because of it. Maybe with the new lineup she'll have time to find something to do. Quote: We need Lara in a situation where she's "first go-to" by virtue of what she's elected to do and where she's elected to be.At the moment she's content being a "general contractor" super-hero of sorts. We'll see soon if she continues that trend. Quote: I think there's a lot of difference between linear movement to and beyond light-speed - which (pretty much every starship in SF can do) and having near-light superspeed with manouvering faculties, which is a distinct and useful super-power.There's a big difference. Lara can't really come to a dead stop in the middle to fight something, since transporting between universes uses up so much energy. She'd be stuck where she stopped for a while. Quote: I recall having this conversation with Scott back in the day regarding Amazing Guy's ability to quantum-jump across galaxies. We eventually figured that there were conditions preventing this happen in strong gravitational fields like those found on planets, so he could only use that ability when he was in deep space. It was a way of preventing him from being able to hop in and out of fights too easily and thus wrecking any drama or threat.I made the condition really simple: That it's so power-exhausting, that Lara doesn't want to use long-distance teleporting if she has to leave behind someone who's in danger, or if she might be putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable position. It's like using the last of your fuel to crash a motorbike into a gang of thugs (which Yuki would do on purpose, but not anyone else). Quote: Now that G-Eyed's back in play with his teleportation powers I'm going to have to be very careful too. Since that's G-Eyed's primary shtick (clever use of his abilities also enhance his strength and stamina to around Spider-Man levels but I don't want to explain how we link that to teleportation right here) it means I need to demonstrate why he's the go-to guy for teleportation - and not Liu Xi or Al B. or Xander or the Shoggoth or any of the other people who have been shown to accomplish similar effects; and I have to do it without downgrading or taking anything away from other cast.Lara is an easy one there. She gets bored easily, so if she becomes teleportation central she'll probably get sick of it and disappear for a while. Liu Xi, another easy one - most people who aren't used to stepping through void can't deal with the warping of dimensional space, and become really sick. Kind of like extreme motion sickness and vertigo, because the brain can't resolve the sudden change in distance and orientation. So if Goldeneyed can do teleportation without the sickness, or the unreliability, or the explosions like EEE, then he's definitely one step ahead. | |||||||
