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That goes without saying, honestly. I'm very aware that this is, like every other piece of fiction, subjective. I'm glad that you liked them.
I think why people tend to react badly to your posts is because, while you stat you dislike them, you don't explain why you dislike them, nor do you offer any alternatives that would be more to your taste, so you come across as repeative bitching.

Wait, hold on.

Is Jade a lantern here?
Did I fail a perception check on the earlier chapters?
Two different Jades, I gather.
Jade Nguyen(Cheshire) is not a Lantern
Jade Yifei (the Green Lantern in the Ani-Com comics) is a Lantern (She is not the same Jade who was the daughter of Alan Scott and member of Infinity Inc)

Yes, Jade Yifei is a counterpart to Alan Scott's daughter, a Chinese Green Lantern.
I think it's just that Jade is a popular name with Orientals.

The guy who owns the Lantern of Jong Li appears to be the local cognate of Alan Scott, and clearly has had some exposure to Alternate Timelines in the past, since he picked up very quickly on Paul's lack of local context, and alien use of nomenclature. Jade Yifei may or may not be his daughter or granddaughter given her green skin and name, and her focus on music and blindness. It's a toss up really.
Jade Yifei does not have green skin. Her eyes glow green when using her Ring, but so did John Stewart's in the Justice League cartoon.
So this guy is like an alternate Alan? Nice to see that all Alan's are innately cool people.

Heh...sumo wrestler construct...now that's the power ring useage I remember!
Well from the link posted yesterday, he did spend some time as a Sumo Wrestler, so it's something he's familiar with.

The term 'damning with faint praise' comes to mind. Better than nothing still isn't much.
If you are really not liking the current episode, why not just ignore the thread for a month or so? Maybe it'll work better for you if you can read it all at once, or you can just skip it altogether and start reading again when the next Episode begins.

Which I think is more evidence for external influence on Paul's decision making. Yeah, he can be pretty impulsive. But I think he would have normally offered before acting here. He's lucky he's dealing with someone remarkably restrained, or he would have ended up splatted across the countryside.
Paragon Paul had impulse control problems as well (that 'perfect' line probably indicates a desire for 'perfect health' (as opposed to whatever bruising/etc he picked up from getting tossed) Paragon enhanced his body (based on impulsive desire) enough that most people mistake him for late teens rather than in his 30s. Paragon and Renegade had the shock of being tossed into a comicbook world, but it was one where they recognised many of the elements and had some idea whats going on. Ani-Paul is much more stressed, the world is rather different from anything he knows. heck, without things like Power Rings being detected he may not have realized he was in a DC world at all.
 
I just would like some clarification on what this has to do in context of the normal ol paul.

Is this him? With his memory reset or something and thrown into the wrong universe.

Or is this just another random alternative like the ones we have seen before?

Is this just setup for when normal ol gets dumped into this other universe and some kind of team up happens?

As it stands now I don't think we have any idea how this all relates to anything so it's just kinda confusing at the moment.

Till we get some kind of context for this it just seems like a "now for something completely different" monty python thing.

I'm assuming that in a couple of updates things will make more sense, but till then, no idea what's going on.
 
I think why people tend to react badly to your posts is because, while you stat you dislike them, you don't explain why you dislike them, nor do you offer any alternatives that would be more to your taste, so you come across as repeative bitching.

I won't say that I have fully explained myself in all my posts recently, but I have offered alternatives and explanations in many of them, since Empiricist2 pointed out the other day that I hadn't in one of the posts. See here. So I've been trying, and have written expanded explanations for my criticisms since then. As well as pointed out things that I do like. So basically, I can't win, I guess, with some people.

The specific post that you were replying to that generated this exchange between you and me was nonspecific, but that was because I had already been specific about my complaints over the past two episodes in other posts. I didn't think I had to make an itemized list of everything that I disliked, with full expanded bullet points, each time that I referred back to those episodes to contextualize this one. If you need that, refer to my recent postings from my profile, I guess.
 
Is this just setup for when normal ol gets dumped into this other universe and some kind of team up happens?
It's not entirely what I expect to happen, but what I want to happen is for this entire episode to be from this new OL's point of view, and at some point our good ol' Paragon OL shows up and they meet and team up.
 
It's not entirely what I expect to happen, but what I want to happen is for this entire episode to be from this new OL's point of view, and at some point our good ol' Paragon OL shows up and they meet and team up.

That'd be an interesting way to do it. So far, this version of Paul has struggled to keep my attention, but this past chapter has shown promise. So if the episode ends with Para-Paul's appearance and the next episode is all about escaping this timeline, that sounds really cool. I think expanding it outward into a two-parter (really, three parter if you consider the episode before) would probably help my perception that last chapter was so overcrowded, as it would give Zoat time to really dig into the meat of this time travel scenario. By the end of it, maybe it'll feel like "Stars, Crossed."
 
Yeah, have to agree... this last chapter was better... maybe it's just we had the other two chapters... or it's a more logical start point, not sure.

I'm not sure. It's interesting because I think if we had gotten these two flashback chapters first, it'd have been a stronger opening to the episode. Basically just switch these two with the other two. Transitioning from the Time Trapper's banishing of Paul to this version of Paul waking up in space, just like the very first chapter of the story, way back when, would have been more narratively dramatic, I think.

By the end of the episode, it might make more sense why we opened there though.
 
I'm not sure. It's interesting because I think if we had gotten these two flashback chapters first, it'd have been a stronger opening to the episode. Basically just switch these two with the other two. Transitioning from the Time Trapper's banishing of Paul to this version of Paul waking up in space, just like the very first chapter of the story, way back when, would have been more narratively dramatic, I think.

By the end of the episode, it might make more sense why we opened there though.
I agree wholeheartedly, the current order isn't terrible, but as-is it seems like it'd be better if it was in chronological order.
 
I smile, raising my left hand. "Let me help you with that."

Probably smarter to ask permission first, though he's understandably a little out-of-sorts at the moment.
Honestly, given that she also has a power ring, my reaction to "I'm blind" would probably have been "Why?"with the unspoken assumption that if she hasn't fixed her eyes herself, then she's probably leaving herself in that state deliberately.
 
Probably smarter to ask permission first, though he's understandably a little out-of-sorts at the moment.
Honestly, given that she also has a power ring, my reaction to "I'm blind" would probably have been "Why?"with the unspoken assumption that if she hasn't fixed her eyes herself, then she's probably leaving herself in that state deliberately.

Also, you know, green ring. Easy to pick up and use, difficult to pick up and use the advanced functions. At least in this story.
 
Is "orientals" an OK thing to say? I was under the impression that term was frowned upon nowadays, but I could be wrong.
In the United States? Definitely not. It's not anywhere on the same level as saying the N-word as a non-black person, but it's still super condescending and at least a little bit offensive.

But not every nation has the same "naughty words" when it comes to that sort of thing.
 
"Oriental" is basically used to describe an object at this point. (Oriental art, an Oriental rug, so on so forth) so referring to a person like that, in America specifically, is viewed as dehumanizing, condescending, and ignorant.

This is not a worldwide phenomenon, much like "Fanny" and "Bloody"
 
I think it's just that Jade is a popular name with Orientals.

But being green and a green lantern are not popular with Asians, which is what makes her quite obvious the Ame-Comi counterpart to Jennifer Lynn Hayden, Jade, who was green and a green lantern.

She's not even the first asian doppelganger of Jade, Tangent Jade is an Asian lady who has the whole dragon lady thing down, since her dragon tattoos come to life ala the Tattooed Man.
 
Hmmm... Not blue, not yellow, just... plain text. That seems a tad odd.
Well as someone else mentioned, this version of Paul doesn't have the empathic vision. Plus as I understand it, this Jade has been blind for a very long time, perhaps since birth, so she more surprised that she's seeing than anything else at the moment.

More like comic writers think that Jade is a popular name in Asia. Despite not even agreeing which country that statement applies to. (Cheshire is Vietnamese and Yifei is Chinese).
valid point about it being more the writers' perception, though I was using 'oriental' to refer to that entire region, not just one nation.

Is "orientals" an OK thing to say? I was under the impression that term was frowned upon nowadays, but I could be wrong.
"Oriental" is basically used to describe an object at this point. (Oriental art, an Oriental rug, so on so forth) so referring to a person like that, in America specifically, is viewed as dehumanizing, condescending, and ignorant.

This is not a worldwide phenomenon, much like "Fanny" and "Bloody"
o_O are American SJW obsessed with taking offense for any word that is non-generic? Are these people from Southeast Asia that are upset at the word, or is it Americans who have decided for Southeast Asians that it's a 'bad word'?
I don't recall hearing anything about 'oriental' being an insult. I suppose I could have used 'southeast asian' but 'oriental' is the term that came to mind first.


But being green and a green lantern are not popular with Asians, which is what makes her quite obvious the Ame-Comi counterpart to Jennifer Lynn Hayden, Jade, who was green and a green lantern.

She's not even the first asian doppelganger of Jade, Tangent Jade is an Asian lady who has the whole dragon lady thing down, since her dragon tattoos come to life ala the Tattooed Man.
*looks up images* Huh, she does have green skin, but according to this link from part 3, she wasn't born with green skin, so it's presumably a side effect of the Ring. Also her father is one Huang Yifei, not Alan Scott.
 
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o_O are American SJW obsessed with taking offense for any word that is non-generic? Are these people from Southeast Asia that are upset at the word, or is it Americans who have decided for Southeast Asians that it's a 'bad word'?
I don't recall hearing anything about 'oriental' being an insult. I suppose I could have used 'southeast asian' but 'oriental' is the term that came to mind first.
No. I live in Indiana. We used to be one of the KKK centers of the US.

I have literally, from the time I was 5, heard that "Oriental" is considered insensitive. Not immediately offensive or insulting, but...unpleasant. Hell, if you've seen Avenue Q, it gets mentioned in the "Everyone is a bit racist" song.

I'm not trying to give you shit over the situation, and like I said, this is something of an America-specific phenomenon, but blaming the "SJWs" is kinda...yeah...
 
I will drop my hat on the "it would have been better to start the episode with these two"

But that is only true IF this is OPaul with his memories erased (and that has the problem of the Time Trapper apparently resetting the clock on OPaul, IE effectively killing the person he became) however IF OPaul is going to suddenly appear in a couple of updates (as many hope, me included) then the episode starting where it did makes more sense.

I certainly hope this is a cross over episode like star crossed and that both Pauls will be forced to work together to get OPaul back to earth 16, bonus points if Paul has to make several attempts to get back and ends up visiting other Pauls.
 
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