With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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Zoat: "... fuuuck me. I'm going to be doing this forever."
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That stuff was way after I stopped following DC in any significant way. As far as I'm concerned, Nightwing is an ex-Robin and Flamebird is one of his groupies.
No. No. No.
To expand on Zoat's answer, it's sort of like sonar. There's passive sonar, and active sonar. Active sonar gets you much more information, faster and generally from farther away. It also informs anyone who can detect sonar, exactly where you are, from a fair ways off. Passive sonar uses background noices and such to guestimate stuff, but it's much harder to detect.
The Team is currently operating on 'passive'. If the Big Bad was using active scans, it probably would be able to spot them pretty easily, but They'd also be able to sense it back. worse, when going active, you can't know if something bigger/more dangerous than you is close enough to detect you going active until it's too late. If the baddie was using 'active scans' the team would have sensed it as they were approaching. For that matter, Captain Cornwall and Cornwall Boy likely would have sensed it on their previous visit.
So for now both the team and the baddie are sneaking around in a really big, really dark room, trying to pick up whatever hints they can without revealing their presence to anyone else in the room.
Yeah, the saying used to be 'the birds and the bears' but then some nutty wizard got obsessed with it and now we've got Owlbears. At least if/when someone creates 'Eaglebees' they should be smaller than a person.
Boo, boo hiss. There's such a heavy focus on human metaphysics that I thought exploring something less human-centric would have been interesting.
Human ascension this and New God that. Give the aliens a little magic love, too.
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Ophidian's close enough to a dragon that I'm happy. Even if she's all we'll get.
Let us ensure Zoat's unending misery—quickly, to Netflix! *sits down and starts up a binge-watch session*
Let us ensure Zoat's unending misery—quickly, to Netflix! *sits down and starts up a binge-watch session*
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I've actually been streaming it all day. I'm not watching TV, but it makes for interesting background noise.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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Season 3, episode 1. Happy Harbor, 2078
I think you highlighted the wrong part. potatoes should be in red.
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Fixed that for you.
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What's wrong with that?
If the mashed potato is free, with 'potato' and 'is' being abbreviated to 'potato's.
The Chosen One
Yes, THAT One.
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So it would read, quite, "the mashed potato is are free?"
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I tried it but I can't respect the show, at least not sober, anymore. The story is that much better.
I think you're missing that the object her removed his finger from, the ring, is implied and ommited.
Mithrandir
Endurance and victory!
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Aliens don't need magic. Especially Kryptonians. They're too powerful with biology alone.
There is no are in the original wording.
edit: Is is the correct american English? Because I believe Paula would say are there.
Usually mashed potatoes' is like that according to my Americanized auto correct
Is that seat free?
Are those thing's free?
1. Don't mean to offend, but I'm assuming auto-correct error, quote.
2. The passage was from the old archive, I was in a rush, and simply wrote it in as needed.
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Ganurath
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The Martians have sorcerer priests.
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Shouldnt it be "If the mashed potatoes are free"?
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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I'm not really sure what arguing about typos will accomplish. Wait a while until he forgets then resubmit the typo, and if he agrees with you then, then you got it corrected. But arguing now when he's already said that it's correct as is just gets you bad will.
It's different audiences. YJ was very good for what it was, a show aimed at young teens to nostalgic twenty-somethings, or just DC fans in general. It was well animated, extremely well voice acted, and the story was generally well done. The second season was essentially the same with better writing.
This story is aimed at an older audience generally, and covers topics both darker/more mature and more thoroughly. It also appeals to people who like the 'rational' genre, by using deconstructionist tropes and by exploring and exploiting the rules of the setting.
While both are very enjoyable, directly comparing one to the other is like comparing apples and oranges; they're both fruit, but they're not that similar, and complement each other pretty well so long as you don't bite into an apple expecting an orange. Also, the audiences don't necessarily overlap. You're obviously outside YJ's target audience. That doesn't mean you can't respect it for what it is, and recognize what it did well.
It's different audiences. YJ was very good for what it was, a show aimed at young teens to nostalgic twenty-somethings, or just DC fans in general. It was well animated, extremely well voice acted, and the story was generally well done. The second season was essentially the same with better writing.
This story is aimed at an older audience generally, and covers topics both darker/more mature and more thoroughly. It also appeals to people who like the 'rational' genre, by using deconstructionist tropes and by exploring and exploiting the rules of the setting.
While both are very enjoyable, directly comparing one to the other is like comparing apples and oranges; they're both fruit, but they're not that similar, and complement each other pretty well so long as you don't bite into an apple expecting an orange. Also, the audiences don't necessarily overlap. You're obviously outside YJ's target audience. That doesn't mean you can't respect it for what it is, and recognize what it did well.
Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
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WtR is the orange, right? /comically missing the point
They are no more powerful than humans are with their Do Anything biology. Kryptonians are merely consistent with what powers they get.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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Double and triple entendres are fun.
Mithrandir
Endurance and victory!
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MM says that, yes. Not that we know what exactly that means.
You mean all of them?
In all seriousness, I see what you're saying, and YJ Superman isn't too bad, but basically the only things that keep Superman out of Mary Sue territory are Kryptonite and magic.
Mary Sue does not mean overpowered.
And... yes, but only under specific situations wrt to solar radiation. Otherwise they're basically human like in capability.
I read somewhere (I think it was Cracked, so grain of salt) that the original show was cancelled because it had too much appeal to girls and didn't fit the typical male-dominated superhero archetype. The article had a direct quote from an executive saying just that, so I suppose a braver producer, or one concerned less with marketing might be able to swing a renewal.
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