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Once more with feeling from... the Hooded Hood!

Subj: Continuing the threat from below about Vizh's submission to female rule
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 05:22:39 am EST (Viewed 5 times)
Reply Subj: Untold Tales of the Secrets of the Parodyverse #359 - Complete
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 at 03:48:13 pm EST (Viewed 73 times)


From I'm fine living in a woman's world if they'll let me put my feet up on the sofa.


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    Hey, would you look at that! I was right for a change. Sure, only about Aella, but I'll take what victories I can get. I always liked Rhiannon's mermaid character and had hoped that she'd one-day become more involved in the main cast and happenings, so it's great to see it come to pass. Of course, I'm not sure that I don't regret it what with her apparently falling in with Hacker-9...


It's quite worrying. Especially given not only who he is currently working for, but who he previouly interned with. Why, in some ways his mentor made him.


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    And we get a pay-off to the mysterious Key that she protected all those years. So my question is this: Was this always in the cards for the character, or did you get permission to tie up the lose ends of that story by folding her into Untold Tales?


The latter. Rhiannon was quite surprised too, I think.


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    Fun to see the convergence of big bads, and especially to see Wilbur done in by Knifey. Quite a lot of double-crossing done in that showdown in the underpinnings of the PV. I liked how HH's plan was dashed by those pesky heroes at the last moment as well... it was not a happy day for any villains' long scheming goals.


Well once monolithically-obsessive dreaming Space Rbot's goals, maybe.


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    Hallie's last stand was wonderfully done, and her exploding into imagery was both horrific and beautiful. I look forward to seeing her on the other side... as if things hadn't been trippy enough to this point...


I'm not describing the sex.


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    Next chapter I resort to my other go-to (also beloved by Game of Thrones), the exposition scene with the naked person.



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    It does liven up the info drops some, doesn't it? In truth, I quickly forgot that Lui Xi was doing all of this naked. Probably wouldn't be the case during the HBO adapation.


If only we knew an illustrator.


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      Watching you juggle all of this is all almost enough to make me feel bad that I could never get a handle on my one story about rescuing some unhappy bunnies from a theme park to finish it.



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      I'm sure you'll get back to that shortly.



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    I honestly don't recall where I was going with it. I used to be much more clever. I may now be wiser, but I find that's significantly less fun.


It really is.


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      NTU could probably alter the front door to launch spring-loaded beavers at any intruders. Or visiting dignitaries.



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      By now the mansion could probably alter itself that way.



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    Assuming it wasn't always a setting just waiting to be tried out.


It's not too late for a tie-in.


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    Ah, I watched [Galavant]... it was fun. More than a bit of a Parodyverse bend to it.


I'm amazed it got a second season but was very pleased it did.


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    After dropping the reference to it, I ended up downloading the cast recording to Hamilton and listening to it on my trip. Damn good stuff with a bunch of tunes that get stuck in your head. Plus, I learned some history, so that's a bonus.


I may have to pursue that, then.


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    Apparently the musical has done so well in winning over fans that the Treasury had to scrap plans to remove Hamilton from the ten dollar bill in order to replace him with a female of historic note (Harriet Tubman was chosen eventually.) I believe Andrew Jackson's going to get the boot from the face of our $20 instead.


No Andrew Jackson, the Musical, then? Poor guy.


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    I watched the attempted [RoboCop] reboot of that last year. I may have forgotten almost everything about it within 24 hours. It's odd to me that something that seemed like a sure-fire hit with the original could not produce any good follow-ups.


It is possibly a property whose time has passed. Back in the day, cyborgs were pretty new SF ideas, apart from the Six Million Dollar Man. Now even Luke Skywalker has a robot hand. Dystopian-future controlling megacorps were also fresh. Now it's hard to find a future that's not dystopian and that doesn't have megacorps running it, except where those megacorps have already caused the zombie apocalypse.