It’s finally here and we asked so many questions this episode is the longest one so far http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-59-tempest
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
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I am the worst kind of person and jumped to the announcements first... I am excited... for the 20th...like so excited.
But a little bummed I live in the wrong time zone to probably comfortably watch it live
Stupid adult responsibilities (that I will doubtlessly ignore)
Can you stop with that Tempest joke.
It's really getting old and unfu ... well ... It's not a joke. OK I'm a fool, don't mind me.
Bet ya 50 Blade Bucks the length will be complained about fer the most whined for episode ever. :P
50 Blade Bucks is like 20 Space Bucks right?
I dunno, I suck at comicbook money-conversion.
I'm excited to see another long episode. Of course I wonlt be listening to it all in one sitting, but its going to entertain me for a number of commutes. I'm not going to hear the announcement stuff until Thursday most likely, unless its spoiled somewhere on the forums.
I'm partway through, stopped for lunch becasue I'll miss half of it if I'm trying to hear what number the food truck is calling.
"I'm Setback and I'm helping!"
Heartbreaker & Equity Kill the Sentinels Universe
May 22nd :D
So Tempest's race are less sexy Asari - cool
Sapienta potentia est
Or maybe they're More sexy Amphibiosans (Kif from Futurama)
Hmm... that's quite a few weeks in a row my question didn't make the cut. That's a little depressing. Oh well.
Good episode this week. I liked that we actually heard about bad writing in Sentinel Comics. It makes the company feel a lot more real.
Side note: Fanatic has a quote from Stranger in a Strange World #8 in her deck (Divine Focus), and that book is from the sixties. That makes Fanatic a way earlier hero than I assumed. Or maybe there are two volumes? Hmm...
Okay, was I the only one entirely creeped out by Maerynian reproduction? This was not the hot alien nookie I was waiting for. D:
Regarding the announcements, I am way excited for both story arc episodes and Disparations. I hope they'll do them in pairs, kind of. Like, give us the 'actual' story before the Disparation. If applicable. I'm sure there are a few we've got enough background on to hear straight up, anyway.
Shoot, I waited to long to post comments, I don't remember what else I was thinking about. :(
I more just like the storytelling implications. You just know with that setup somebody is going to end up as part Maerynian parent and be not sure what to think about it.
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
"Anthony, remember when Akash'Bhuta threw me off a building, and you flew up and caught me?"
"Of course, M'kk. Why do you ask?"
"Well..."
Or worse implications: Citizen Storm could possibly be the alternate-universe kid Dawn Cohen always wanted.
Aw sure we start out in cute/funny crack ship land and now it's all serious...
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
All the core heroes are fairly older ones. I believe Fanatic is the newest out of them but her first appearance is what would have been the first volume of Mystery Comics.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
From what I understood, egg-bearing Maerynian's can gather DNA from multiple sources, so the entire Primer Wars team can be the parents (that is, if non-Maerynian DNA can be used after all).
Knowing that Tempest is among the most hot-headed of his species, I present a Maerynian joke.
Three Maerynians are sat at home when a fish swins by the window.
A day later, one of them says, "I think that was a cod."
The next day, the second replies, "No, it was a haddock."
The day after, the third says, "Everybody calm down, you don't need to fight about it!"
Ceterum, censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
It reminded me of the Uryuoms from El Goonish Shive.
Also, Humanity First! is the name of the anti-mutant faction in the Whateley Universe webfiction series. So this was the week of unintentional (probably?) webfiction references, to me at least.
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Some random thoughts now that WalkingTarget's summaries refresh my memory:
The whole Prime Wardens Volume 2 thing and its timing likely answers a question I had in the back of my head for a while now: Namely, wondering if the XTreme Prime Wardens showing up on the cover of Prime Wardens #1 was really "our" Wardens going through the same wacky 90s fashion phase that the real world comics did, which the XPWs were then a repurposing of. Nope, the XTreme Prime Wardens were on the cover because it was in fact actually the XTreme Prime Wardens.
(Good, because now I don't feel so stupid for forgetting to ask about it for the Prime Wardens ep along with the other questions I asked. >_>;)
Between the whole "Yeah, but, Earth, man!/But what if it was Earth?" thing, Haka in general, some of Cosmic's choices for constructs (like the double-decker bus) and some of the scenes Christopher has painted for Argent Adept (like his reaction to Wager Master throwing their fiddle contest), I now feel sort of convinced that at least 4/5ths of the Prime Wardens are actually just very tall adorable children pretending to be adults.
On the one hand, to me it makes perfect sense for an alien ambassador to like pop music since it's essentially modern folk music, and folk music in turn is essentially anthropology with a catchy rhythm. On the other hand, the fact that Tempest specifically likes happy cheery music suggests that's not actually their motivation so yeah I dunno I guess.
I do think we definitely need to start taking a fandom pool for which people end up being unexpected co-parent(s) of Tempest's egg, because if that's not a setup for such a story I'll eat someone's hat.
Much like AZ keeps getting more awesome every time he shows up in a podcast, Sky-Scraper seems to keep getting more and more adorably sweet.
I admit I never read too much into Tempest calling Miss Info by her first name because being a secretary is essentially the formal version of retail work, and in retail that sort of "friendliness" is standard (and even mandatory) regardless of actual friend relations.
Tempest and the dog turns out to be even cuter than Vernal Sonata already was, though it's still a little unclear about what the context of that particular card is. (Tempest introducing the rest of the Prime Wardens to said furry friend maybe?)
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Listening again , C and A state that Tempest's culture doesn't have a concept of pets. Since pets are the result of domestication, they must never have domesticated any of their planet's animals
Sapienta potentia est
I just imagine someone asking Tempest about the dog and he's like, "Though I find his species incredibly friendly, I must admit a certain embarrassment, as I have yet to decipher their language."
That whole "This is my friend and I don't know his name and he doesn't know mine" is really deep, though. That's powerful.