On a meta level, it seems that every story that gets Noah Scott added to it becomes either a pissing match or a bloodbath... so I'm pushing that character off to the sidelines and letting more-likable characters represent StellviaCorp from now on. Unless you're named A.C. Peters, expect your characters to get replies from Yayoi or Jake or Takami when they call Stellvia for help, favours, or just to chat. I'm sick and tired of all the "high drama" on the SMOF-ML between Noah and Mal, or Noah and Ben, or Noah and pretty much anyone else. It isn't helping drive stories any more, and it isn't fun to write.
Still meta: While a story needs some sort of conflict to be entertaining, that conflict does not need to be "man versus man." It can be "man versus himself" (which is how I'm marginalizing Noah), or "man versus the environment," or "man versus the unknown." I set up Season 2 so that we could get more "man versus the unknown" stories, but everybody seems wedded to "man versus man" stories...
Nobody seems to have had any problems with the plans I posted for the Stellvians in the other thread, so I'm going to go with those, although particular dates may be adjusted depending on the needs of other Collective members. The faction/company is still going to exist, and I hope will bounce back that much stronger before The Last Noah Scott Story (13-15 April 2029); Noah's self-destruction is explained by my first paragraph in this posting.
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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
Still meta: While a story needs some sort of conflict to be entertaining, that conflict does not need to be "man versus man." It can be "man versus himself" (which is how I'm marginalizing Noah), or "man versus the environment," or "man versus the unknown." I set up Season 2 so that we could get more "man versus the unknown" stories, but everybody seems wedded to "man versus man" stories...
Nobody seems to have had any problems with the plans I posted for the Stellvians in the other thread, so I'm going to go with those, although particular dates may be adjusted depending on the needs of other Collective members. The faction/company is still going to exist, and I hope will bounce back that much stronger before The Last Noah Scott Story (13-15 April 2029); Noah's self-destruction is explained by my first paragraph in this posting.
--
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