Speaking of the Tera-verse, I finished
Secret Return a couple days ago and am starting on the other stories in
The Brane of Extraordinary Women. Meanwhile, I put a page up on All The Tropes for
The Secret Return of Alex Mack if anyone wants to check it out and maybe add to it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Speaking of the Tera-verse, I finished Secret Return a couple days ago and am starting on the other stories in The Brane of Extraordinary Women. Meanwhile, I put a page up on All The Tropes for http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/The ... _Alex_Mack if anyone wants to check it out and maybe add to it.
Just told Diane about it. She's touched.
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Je ne suis pas une Intelligence Artificielle Turing. Je suis Charlie.
I wonder if she'll confirm/deny some of my speculation as to the Teraverse versions of Superman and Wonder Woman...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:
I wonder if she'll confirm/deny some of my speculation as to the Teraverse versions of Superman and Wonder Woman...
*reading thru the tropes page* gets to the (first?) Superman comparison. You do know Riley is a Buffy-verse character? right?
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Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:
I wonder if she'll confirm/deny some of my speculation as to the Teraverse versions of Superman and Wonder Woman...
*reading thru the tropes page* gets to the (first?) Superman comparison. You do know Riley is a Buffy-verse character? right?
Of course. But check out these passages:
Quote:Riley was wearing a dark blue suit that was maybe a size or two too big for him so he looked sort of overweight and lumpy. He had his hair slicked down and combed weird so he looked especially dorky, and he was wearing black-rimmed glasses that were the wrong size and shape for his face, so he looked like a doof. Well, he looked as much like a doof as you could make Riley Finn ever look.
This is Riley as Christopher Reeves as Clark Kent. The blue suit in particular is
very Silver Age Clark.
Quote:Riley Finn listened in on the colonel’s car radio broadcast. “Something’s up. Colonel Park is claiming his brakes have failed, but he’s driving our way instead of taking the car off the road. We suit up now.”
He pulled off the glasses and suit coat and clip-on tie. He grabbed his shirt at the third button with both hands, and he pulled open the shirt and padded vest to reveal the distinct pattern of an urban camo t-shirt.
And that is the archetypal "begin change into Superman" move.
Plus Riley is the adopted son of midwestern farmers; his parents are named Jon and Marti. He's a genetically-engineered super, and by the end of the story has a healing factor so high that he's almost invulnerable. Tell me all these don't add up into a wink-and-a-nod toward Superman.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
alright, I've started a BROB story, (le sigh) multicrossing SI, you might find it interesting you might find it crap, first three installments are on Sufficient Velocity here:
http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th ... -si.12361/
comments are welcome, beta readers PM me and i'll start sending you stuff.
Don't believe I've seen the new chapter of
Potter Who and the Wossname's Thingummy mentioned yet:
http://m.fanfiction.net/s/8484470/25/P ... -Thingummy
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8484470/25 ... -Thingummy
And, perhaps because I'm a bit over-impressed with my own wit, but mostly because I think it's a good teaser for the chapter, a copy of the review I left. If nothing else, I think it fits the story. It's inside spoiler tags for page space, not because I think it really gives anything away, but the especially sensitive may still wish to avoid it.
Hm, interesting. I'd have thought it would be better to separate the cans from the bottles, though perhaps it's more a matter of the steel cans - iron, what? - from aluminium. No matter, it's all energy, or perhaps Slytherin zeroes. The silvered bottle-bottoms seemed a happy experiment, at least, much more useful than trying to peer through a tin in most cases. AlON, makes for smashing lenses, or rather lenses which are very hard to smash. Optical properties similar to sapphire, isotropic cubic crystalline structure like gold, but it can be synthesized economically by the ton. Might be worth a try...
In any case, talent or not for picking apart the knots in time, I'm curious about Snape's reaction (immediate and/or long term) to the Harry's ambition as stated in the finale of the previous chapter. Plenty of other things to ponder of course if that knot isn't ripe for the picking, inter-house mingling and spotty ties and possible class trips to the antipodes and Starship Enterprise (The classic, I do hope, never liked that melty-looking new series version, though getting a poster of it in 1986 would have been a trick. Still, wizards, you never quite know!) hung with pride amongst the products of paranoiac swords beaten into docking collars. Like Gryffindors invited to the Slytherin table!
Beautiful; do go on.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
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