Quote:Good question... But Bob didn't say anything about it when I posted the teaser, so many months ago , so I assume he's okay with the term. It isn't as if Doug's going to make a habit of using the word - he and Jean are similar in more than a few ways, so they'll become reasonably close.
You know, I've never thought of Doug as someone that calls anybody "lad." Does any American call anybody "lad"? Has he just spent that much time in Great Britain?
Quote:Which I'm ignoring as much as possible. The justification for Nadia's personality not changing is that Doug has shown up...
I think that Doug would be a great addition in the Island section, though it was during this point that Nadia became very . . . off.
Quote:Hmmmmm... There'd have to be a good reason for him to take part in what's essentially a grudge match, but we'll see what happens when the story gets that far (midway through chapter 2, BTW).
Maybe Doug could enter his own robot King in the great king race?
Quote:Not fish - she gets upset on more than one occasion when she sees Jean and Marie have caught some. But, yes, she's not a strict vegan.
Nadia, not exactly a vegetarian. She likes eggs--a lot! And milk. And possibly fish, though I'm not sure about that.
Quote:"100 Secrets of the Nautilus" - that's one of the few that I have seen.
As for the drive and power source of the Nautilus 2, have you seen the Nadia omake? There's this one episode that gives some of the technical specs of the nautilus 2 and compares it to first one.
Quote:I plead Clarke's Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology...") Seriously, they never say what an Orpheus Furnace is, so I'm using writer's perogative.
I'm not sure about this orpheus drive and it being a "mana engine" or what have you. Despite the quasi-mystical nature of the blue water, it doesn't neccessarily have to have anything to do with magic. the Nautilus 2 might harness zero point energy or possibly a singularity. Or something equally kookoo science fantasy-ish, a la star wars or star trek.
Quote:Isn't that how I spelled their names? It's how I meant to, at least... Ah well, I'll catch it with a global search-and-replace.
You know, I've always thought that Grandis' henchmen should be SAMSON and HANSOM. It sounds the same in Japanese but the fact that "Sanson" is a vain super strong guy is a clue to what his name actually should be. Hansom, of course, from the maker of the famous Hansom cab.
Quote:-Rob Kelk
Course there's the problem of what to do with Doug during hte confrontation with Gargoyle. It has to be Nadia what does what she does with the blue water, not doug's metapowers.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012