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Subj: Re: I agree with "hmm" but for a different reason... Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 09:46:55 am EDT (Viewed 506 times) | Reply Subj: Re: I agree with "hmm" but for a different reason... Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 09:07:00 am EDT (Viewed 473 times) | ||||||
Quote: I don't know... Chiaki strikes me as a very Silver Age concept. If you're from Japan, naturally you know martial arts and carry a sword. And yes, stereotypes are a heavy part of Silver Age storytelling, but it's not like the Golden Age, where they were openly racist. Usually the Silver Age's main fault in that regard was is clueless stereotyping or, conversely, blatent and heavy-handed attempts to be progressive.I was thinking of Silver Age in terms of both the style and the time it originally fell into existence. Anyone who looked or behaved too different from Americans either had to be evil or poked fun at (this lasted well into 1980's cartoons, actually). And Liu Xi, she's in the same boat except she's also a victim of the cold war. Either she would have to be a defector (and poked fun at) or an evil communist. Quote: No reason there couldn't be a Hallie mainframe... her introduction to the Legion had nothing to do with Visionary, really. I thought she couldn't find the Mansion mainframe to download back to, and was stuck in the HED. Quote: The Silver Age is full of crazy technology... usually as or more advanced than anything likely to show up in the modern age. I'd say the main difference is then writers didn't give a hoot to the science behind it, or one thought to *how* a device would do something. Mass is created out of thin air, unbreakable laws of physics are shredded, incredibly complex machinery is fit into ridiculously convenient sizes, (and conversely things that would be simple and small technology in our time is huge and elaborate.)Quote: Most of the Parodyverse technology is already Silver Age in style, if you strip away the self-aware part of the gag.That's the tricky part, is that trends in artificial intelligence were much different in the Silver Age. There were intelligent robots, but generally intentionally designed to be as alien and emotionless as possible. The concept of a highly emotional and complex robot only started around the 1980's or so - but that's not the *real* issue. The real issue is that in Silver Age, nobody would have a reason to create Anna at all, as she is. But, if I stretched that definition a little and skipped over the origin entirely, Anna wouldn't be designed to be quite as environmentally friendly (that's a very modern concept). She would probably be nuclear powered. Quote: Unfortunately for Lara Night, the first rule of her existence is that she only exists in one reality at a time.  So if she wasn't in the lighthouse, she's back in the universe it came from.Quote: Interesting.That rule was created to explain why there aren't separate versions of her on her home Earth and another in the Parodyverse. Otherwise she'd be meeting herself all the time which gives me a headache. | |||||||
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