Quote: HoagieOfDoom wrote:The limited number of cities saved was not from the source material; the anime doesn't discuss
Those are some solid ideas, Bluemage. My one concern is the limited number of metaDomes you propose exist. The source material may have explicitly mentioned
that only three were made, I can't remember. I bring it up mostly because I remember one of the agents in the anime having a French accent, so maybe
there was one in France, or Quebec?
anything but Paradigm City, the deserts outside the city, and that the Union exists, and is opposed to the Paradigm government. I put it as there only being
three metaDomes, and thus three cities, to tie in with the three Bigs, the three goddesses, and the three pilots. It would be more exact to say that there
were only three preserved cities on the East Coast that developed Megadeus technology and had the ability to deal with anything beyond the borders of their own
domes.
As to the French accent, there were what, two characters who had it? They were both part of the Union, which was later revealed to not really exist. I
figured they were part of Gordon Rosewater's plan.
I will admit that your interpretation of the ending makes more sense than mine. This started as one of those crazy ideas that you get right before you go to
sleep- I still have the original, hastily-scrawled sheet of notes to remind me. I was also trying to find an explanation that worked without leaving the world
the "actors" were in, and it requires a good bit more insanity to manage that.
I also figured that when you can rewrite reality, you can make your reality-rewriting machine's interface work however the heck you want, and maybe Angel
always wanted to create a TV show.
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For extra WTH factor, remember the episode where Roger is hallucinating that he's a homeless bum in a normal world, and has to come to terms with himself
to recover? What would happen to Doug if he were hit with that effect? Would he be a mundane, upper-middle class
engineer?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.