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x_projectHi. Here's the due cheering and applause for the Thermopylae logs. Thanks you all for a very entertaining weekend!
A few things and snippets I liked particularly or noticed for some reason or the other:
* First thing, it was all around a very good job at building up anticipation over the week.
* I'm not sure why, but for me was the goodbye scene of Alison and Doug the most moving of all.
* Madelyn's "I work at a school for mutant teenagers. And believe me, it's not that different." line cracked me up.
* The repeating of the com messages from Scott and Nathan all over the logs helped a lot with understanding the timeframe of all the scenes. Very good idea.
* When Hank had to leave Valeri behind - that was sad. [Btw I remember that transformed!beast had a strong healing factor in my old Avengers comics - did Marvel drop that idea, or is it X-journal-verse specific that he has none?]
* I liked the description of how Nathan experienced the trigger.
* Sam's air battle was good and his thoughts when he went down made me laugh.
* Damn. I liked Konstantakis! I would have preferred to see her among the survivors, really.
* I was wondering - why wasn't Radonic roottriggered immediately, like the other second-gens?
* I didn't know the fire and ice poem at the start of part 8 and I like it. X_journal is so educational. :D
* I loved Cains 'taking on Director Ruiz' scene because by then I was rightfully pissed about the stunt she had pulled.
* It was cool when Xavier helped powering the Trojan horse, because I had completely forgotten about him at that point.
* Mick's death was sad! Likewise, the scene where Madelyn finds him. Stating the obvious here, I guess, but still.
[Plus, in the aftermath, Alison's scenes with Ani, Remy and Haroun and the Nathan & Moira one were very good.]
A few things and snippets I liked particularly or noticed for some reason or the other:
* First thing, it was all around a very good job at building up anticipation over the week.
* I'm not sure why, but for me was the goodbye scene of Alison and Doug the most moving of all.
* Madelyn's "I work at a school for mutant teenagers. And believe me, it's not that different." line cracked me up.
* The repeating of the com messages from Scott and Nathan all over the logs helped a lot with understanding the timeframe of all the scenes. Very good idea.
* When Hank had to leave Valeri behind - that was sad. [Btw I remember that transformed!beast had a strong healing factor in my old Avengers comics - did Marvel drop that idea, or is it X-journal-verse specific that he has none?]
* I liked the description of how Nathan experienced the trigger.
* Sam's air battle was good and his thoughts when he went down made me laugh.
* Damn. I liked Konstantakis! I would have preferred to see her among the survivors, really.
* I was wondering - why wasn't Radonic roottriggered immediately, like the other second-gens?
* I didn't know the fire and ice poem at the start of part 8 and I like it. X_journal is so educational. :D
* I loved Cains 'taking on Director Ruiz' scene because by then I was rightfully pissed about the stunt she had pulled.
* It was cool when Xavier helped powering the Trojan horse, because I had completely forgotten about him at that point.
* Mick's death was sad! Likewise, the scene where Madelyn finds him. Stating the obvious here, I guess, but still.
[Plus, in the aftermath, Alison's scenes with Ani, Remy and Haroun and the Nathan & Moira one were very good.]
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Date: 2005-03-20 11:08 pm (UTC)* I'm not sure why, but for me was the goodbye scene of Alison and Doug the most moving of all.
Our Doug-player had a late blaze of inspiration. *grins*
* The repeating of the com messages from Scott and Nathan all over the logs helped a lot with understanding the timeframe of all the scenes. Very good idea.
That is good to know. Because when I was cutting this beast up and assembling it for posting, all I could think was "Oh pleasepleaseplease let the timeframe make sense..." ;)
* Damn. I liked Konstantakis! I would have preferred to see her among the survivors, really.
I was torn. On the one hand, I liked her too. On the other hand, the whole precog-willingly-sacrificing-herself really appealed to me.
* I was wondering - why wasn't Radonic roottriggered immediately, like the other second-gens?
Because he... umm... had a natural resistance? (Really, it's because I unintentionally created a timing snafu and didn't catch it immediately. Hence some hasty plothole-plastering. ;)
* I loved Cains 'taking on Director Ruiz' scene because by then I was rightfully pissed about the stunt she had pulled.
You'd probably be entertained to know that there were a few of us who ran around going "Plane origami! Whee!" for days in advance of that being written... ;)
* It was cool when Xavier helped powering the Trojan horse, because I had completely forgotten about him at that point.
Stay tuned for repercussions of Nate enlisting/grabbing help with that. *enigmatic look* ;)
* Mick's death was sad! Likewise, the scene where Madelyn finds him. Stating the obvious here, I guess, but still.
I wavered for soooo long on killing Mick. Really. Came within a hair's breadth of not doing it... but it worked out too well in the end. ;)
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Date: 2005-03-20 11:26 pm (UTC)I so cried reading it all. And not just because it was about 100,000 words including supplementary logs. Seriously, folks? You all rock and I'm honored to play with you.
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Date: 2005-03-21 12:58 am (UTC)*throws more kleenexes at you*
WENCH! :D
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Date: 2005-03-21 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-21 02:36 pm (UTC)I can see the appeal of the precog-self-sacrifice idea, too. Also, I think a 10 second precognition must suck. Less so for witty banter in talk-shows maybe, but in a battle situation? Must be terribly stressful. Useful, of course, but I'd prefer the more mundane stuff, like shooting beams. I suspect all I would ever see is me getting beaten up because I was too busy seeing it happen.
Because he... umm... had a natural resistance?
Hee. Works for me. Or insufficient RAM has delayed the reboot.
Soooo... *looks out for the repercussions*