tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post2890569975326447656..comments2023-10-23T13:39:38.799-07:00Comments on Frankensteinbeck: One Final Taste!Frankensteinbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06626952456497490187noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-77675640602390526642017-05-07T21:13:52.128-07:002017-05-07T21:13:52.128-07:00My guesses for what will happen in the book, based...My guesses for what will happen in the book, based on the preview chapters: <br />Penny will be piloting about the soulless body, letting that be Bad Penny. Moving two bodies at once will be easier than expected because there's a functioning brain to delegate stuff to. (Still, ewww. That's an order of magnitude ickier than wearing someone's used underwear.) However, there'll be the standard problem of subconscious impulses being more easily expressed through the puppet. Our favourite Vampire Zombie WILL want her bauble back, because it'll turn out to be really dangerous, and Claire will learn a Valuable Lesson about Friendship (and probably won't be able to watch horror movies for a few months without getting the shakes).<br />Remmy will be making a nuisance of herself throughout, and Penny will be trying to befriend her but it just won't work out until the end, where The Audit will step in and take the initiative to adopt Remmy, making them sisters and properly defining their relationship as people who don't have to be friends to care about each-other. ( I'm basing this on nothing but how much I want it to happen, and on Beebee reminding me of Cordelia Naismith-Vorkosigan's no-nonsense attitude.)<br /><br />Looking forward to finding out how many of my guesses are true!Elyandarinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08289813912842329057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-48331216059479340592017-03-12T07:40:56.831-07:002017-03-12T07:40:56.831-07:00Ha! Veruca didn't have anything to back up her...Ha! Veruca didn't have anything to back up her arrogance. Remy does - she's a butt-kicker!<br />I don't much care for her, but JB was just a psycho-killer. <br />Spider is just a cold blooded manipulatore. I I think her niceness is just the best way she could figure to control T.I.M.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-56208015971819652562017-03-08T04:56:39.936-08:002017-03-08T04:56:39.936-08:00Cool! I will give that a try. Thanks!Cool! I will give that a try. Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-27537942470590282252017-02-27T04:52:55.810-08:002017-02-27T04:52:55.810-08:00Oh Hey!
I found a different book which is pretty c...Oh Hey!<br />I found a different book which is pretty cool. It's called Wearing the Cape and has a pixie sized girl with superman style powers. Kinda like Claudia but shorter. <br />What is really cool is that it has it's own RPG Coming out on Kickstarter. <br />Which started me thinking. <br />What sort of RPG could possibly work for the coolness that is the Inscrutable Machine? <br /><br />I don't think a standard generic system like GURPS could really do it right. It's all about getting the power levels right. All the nuts and bolts of powers. But T.I.M. is coolest when it's about the consequences and the stuff that happens between characters. <br />Anybody know of a good system for that? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-79164418474661519302017-02-24T04:56:41.193-08:002017-02-24T04:56:41.193-08:00Yeah Buddy!
Only problem is that "The Kludg...Yeah Buddy! <br />Only problem is that "The Kludge" makes thing out of other Mad Scientists Stuff, and she has lots to stuff to work with in LA! <br />Can you say RAMPAGE!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-86344885581268066222017-02-23T15:07:20.287-08:002017-02-23T15:07:20.287-08:00So is The Glitch at risk of catching it in the nec...So is The Glitch at risk of catching it in the neck due to her ignorance of the rules?<br /><br />Yes, she's a self-righteous idiot about things outside her immediate knowledge - but she's still (I think) younger than Penny was at the start of the first book, and she's totally ignorant of how near the edge she's treading.Javaheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14922782424313956036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-69908139840123796952017-02-22T09:17:40.772-08:002017-02-22T09:17:40.772-08:00Excellent question, William!
This is briefly answ...Excellent question, William!<br /><br />This is briefly answered in I Did Not Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence. I'll try to go into it with a little more detail, here.<br /><br />Basically, the government is scared of superhumans and relieved to let them regulate each other. When one single person can have the power of a giant bomb, and there are thousands of these around the country, law enforcement becomes prickly. Conventional attempts to deal with them require you to either accept massive collateral damage, or go heavy on cruel and unusual punishment. When super powered communities fall into a relatively peaceful pattern, neither the government agencies nor the electorate want to interfere with that. An analogue is when organized crime takes root, and locations decide fighting them is more trouble than it's worth.<br /><br />There are bad and unfair aspects to this. Superhumans are above the law in many ways. They're not going to get arrested for, say, reckless driving, or violating building codes. They don't have to face their bank accounts frozen for criminal acts, unless a superhero makes a point of dragging the villain in and revealing where the money went. The minor damage caused by breaking these laws, given the small number of people doing it, is considered a price easily worth paying to limit the gigantic damage that could be done if powers were used unrestrained and with malice aforethought. As long as heroes are willing to fight villains, and everybody is willing to keep damage to civilians to a minimum, the government is willing to limit themselves to doing the sweeping up afterwards. It is very convenient to let the hero take the blame when a villain is dragged off to jail.<br /><br />Side note: It is extremely hard to keep supervillains locked up. People like Bull can walk through any wall you can build. Some mad scientists can create an escape tool out of a spoon and a mattress. If they don't break themselves out, they have friends who can do it easily. It's an unsolved problem.<br /><br />No amount of superhumans the government can hire can come close to what's lurking in the 'civilian' population, and like conventional weapons, enough force to reliably stop someone like Lucyfar or Chimera (or Mech, who has broken a lot of laws in his vigilantism!) brings us back to neighborhoods destroyed and hundreds dead.<br /><br />All of this is self-reinforcing. Government cracking down makes superhumans more violent, which forces the government to crack down harder. The government turning a blind eye makes it easier for self-regulating communities to maintain a peaceful tone. In LA in Penny's time, the hero and villain communities are actively friendly with each other, despite how seriously most of them take their roles.<br /><br />This is far from a perfect system. For example, built into LA's friendliness is mob justice with execution as the penalty for breaking the rules. The superhuman community itself is weird, a separate culture from main society with a lot of social pressures. Both superhumans and the government cling to this system as a thousand times better than the alternatives.Frankensteinbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06626952456497490187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-8411074707470370982017-02-22T05:18:59.927-08:002017-02-22T05:18:59.927-08:00Hey quick question that I've been wondering ab...Hey quick question that I've been wondering about in Penny's universe, how does the state and federal government feel about the superpowered community? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10980220773567824169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-15882146262027270242017-02-17T08:23:38.071-08:002017-02-17T08:23:38.071-08:00Curious what time frame for the release will be :)...Curious what time frame for the release will be :)<br /><br />Though yes, I can't say as I like Remmy either. Everything was super awesome for the story up till she showed up >_> I'm hoping she gets a nice memory wipe.Magushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04912652826386499611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-10739199336112041092017-02-16T13:06:01.975-08:002017-02-16T13:06:01.975-08:00Every time she pushed them around I got pissed. Th...Every time she pushed them around I got pissed. They kicked Bones' backside. But Spider is still around pulling strings. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-12293526151325073132017-02-16T13:04:42.804-08:002017-02-16T13:04:42.804-08:00Yeah. In the first book Spider is the creepiest bi...Yeah. In the first book Spider is the creepiest biggest villain. Jagged Bones don't even come close.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-33897206144730515592017-02-16T13:04:13.493-08:002017-02-16T13:04:13.493-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-12955123041732926002017-02-16T13:02:39.841-08:002017-02-16T13:02:39.841-08:00You hate Jagged Bones? He was in like one scene. ...You hate Jagged Bones? He was in like one scene. How'd you build up that much hate-on for a guy that quick? I know he's like a psycho, but for real he is not even the worst villain. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-83551878842127628292017-02-11T07:39:59.417-08:002017-02-11T07:39:59.417-08:00If T.I.M. was turned into a Netflix's original...If T.I.M. was turned into a Netflix's original I would be all for it. After what they've been doing with the Marvel series I would trust them with most things.<br /><br />Turning TIM into a Buffy type show would we sacrilegious. I love Joss but that show was bad, the god kinda bad, but still bad. <br /> Also aging the characters would take away so much from the story. It wouldn't be the same if they were older, one of the main premises of the story is that they are so young. <br /><br />The TIM books are a bit on the shorter side of books. But are still too long to fit completely into a movie. A shorter series that isn't episodic. <br />SciFi did a Dresden Files series that failed to live up to the books. It was an enjoyable show, but they made all the episodes self contained, and tried to use the books as episodes instead of seasons. Both things caused it to fall short.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10543933983633475898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-66942912864229858522017-02-11T07:04:43.339-08:002017-02-11T07:04:43.339-08:00they used the power armor for one of the sequels. ...they used the power armor for one of the sequels. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10543933983633475898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-54316869827310951622017-02-10T07:06:55.890-08:002017-02-10T07:06:55.890-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16495436809900899611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-52935064783978726632017-02-10T06:29:46.495-08:002017-02-10T06:29:46.495-08:00T.I.M. as Scoobies? No please!T.I.M. as Scoobies? No please!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-5548491673859159812017-02-09T21:57:58.903-08:002017-02-09T21:57:58.903-08:00I always thought the books would work better as a ...I always thought the books would work better as a TV series; something similar to Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. Penny is Buffy; T.I.M as the Scooby Gang etc. Maybe they need to age the characters like they did with The Magicians but with all the kids in the school, there’s plenty of potential storylines for the showrunners to mine.Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05160118520611754510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-38124752087813946222017-02-09T13:47:31.119-08:002017-02-09T13:47:31.119-08:00I remember Troopers I think. I remember the power...I remember Troopers I think. I remember the power armor. But the way I remember it there was an awful lot about making a military society and how it was wrong to promote the warfare lifestyle. If it's the one I remember anyway. I don't remember any of that in the movie. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-6619686680485020972017-02-09T08:06:39.266-08:002017-02-09T08:06:39.266-08:00Read the book sometime, they were running around i...Read the book sometime, they were running around in heavy power armor with jumpjet of some sort. In the movie, they were wearing flak jackets and using assault rifles. The animated series was closer to the book and they were still off. But at least they used military tactics in the animated series. As for the weirdness in a lot of his later books, you have to understand that a lot of that is caused by the publishers forcing the authors to rewrite the books according to how they want them. The originals of the books he wrote were actually 2x or 3x longer and made sense. But the publishers would force him to edit it down or change a lot.Vanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06679898329423175470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-30092871189203190922017-02-09T06:52:24.449-08:002017-02-09T06:52:24.449-08:00Oh man! And the way it ended! Makes you really wan...Oh man! And the way it ended! Makes you really want to know what happens next. Can't wait!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-23975577205665566132017-02-09T06:45:18.396-08:002017-02-09T06:45:18.396-08:00Agghh! You and me too! The wait is killing me! And...Agghh! You and me too! The wait is killing me! And I don't have like anything else good to read! Aaagggh!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-89566838562120727402017-02-09T06:43:23.756-08:002017-02-09T06:43:23.756-08:00Meh. I’m not really a Heinlein fan.
I think I rea...Meh. I’m not really a Heinlein fan. <br />I think I read one of his books about the kids that had to like get themselves from Mars to Earth. Or the other way around. But I liked that one ok. The rest were just meh. <br />That Lazarus Long stuff was too freaky weird for me. Why did he think that everyone in the future would be bi or that it was ok to mess around with their own moms? Ugh. <br />But I get what you mean. From what I remember he was really down on the military stuff. So the Starship Troopers Movie being a big steaming pile wasn’t a big surprise.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797850014114191654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-78257467677240429792017-02-09T06:06:13.793-08:002017-02-09T06:06:13.793-08:00I agree.
The movie interpretation you posted is al...I agree.<br />The movie interpretation you posted is all too probable, especially if it is produced by Fox. I imagine it would be funny to watch it unfold, like a ‘train-wreck’ – best to watch from a good distance, worst to be involved in. However, it does not sound like any movie I would want to watch.<br /><br />My opinion on the Killing Joke Movie, however, still holds that they did not add any of their own artistic flavor to the movie. So, I don’t see the point of making the movie the way they did. <br /><br />I do have a bit of hope, however, for a T.I.M. Movie, because there is now a second ‘re-imagining’ of a Series of Unfortunate Events, which is/was grim in setting and visual style, very ‘Dickensonian’ – especially for a move for, ah, ‘young adults?’ The same audience group that one would assume would be the target for a T.I.M. Movie. It does also have a young, female, inventive genius in the lead. <br />If that series can be ‘movie-ized’ while preserving its’ ‘dark humor,’ then perhaps some of the originality of T.I.M. may be brought properly to the screen. <br /><br />I am not, however, going to hold my hopes too high. I will simply reserve those sorts of high expectations for the next book. Darkallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10465319073405749487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633538053933355058.post-20253629731201769682017-02-08T11:42:31.418-08:002017-02-08T11:42:31.418-08:00Frame by frame remakes are pointless. A remake sho...Frame by frame remakes are pointless. A remake should always improve on and fix the mistakes of the original. But then certain movies should never be remade. <br />The Magnificent Seven, the original it self a western remake of the Seven Samurai. The remake was rather good, kept enough of the original but still managed to make it a new movie.<br /><br />My friend is a comic guy, killing joke is one of his favorite batman comics. He told me he thinks they changed too much for the movie.<br /><br />The point of taking a popular book/comic and turning it into a movie isn't to make it something else, it's to give it new life.<br />Change for the sake of change is the problem.<br /><br />Whats Hollywood going to do to this.<br />Well first you can't have 12 year olds in life and death situations, so lets make them 16 instead. Also because they want to use the current IT actors. <br />Next you can't have an awkward looking girl as the lead, so now she's going to be a beautiful girl who they try and fail to make look awkward.<br />Well Ray is going to be on the football team, but like a 3rd stringer. Until he gets super powers then he's going to be the starting quarter back. <br />And of course you can't have any teen movie with out a love triangle. So either there will be some interest between Ray and Claire or it will be someone else like Marcia or Cassie.<br />Claire's power is going to have to change, because it's too hard for an audience to get a feeling for super cuteness.<br />OH and of course the Machine will need to have intelligence and a personality. It will like a really smart dog. Cause that would make a much better toy.<br />No Teddy bears and Chainsaws either. We'll need to use one of the most popular games out there, so we can drum up extra revenue.<br />But without that, it makes most of the 3rd act inventions have to context, so we'll need to change those.<br />All the villains will be merged into new villains that have little resemblance to the originals.<br />And a giant Spider won't play well, might scare away too many potential viewers. So she will have to be changed. either a person using a robot spider as a cover or an anthropomorphized spider, mostly human with spider features.<br /><br />I could go on, but with those changes, which are not far fetched in the least, it wouldn't be the same story. And that's what happens when you change stuff for no reasons.<br /><br />Fox does it with ever comic based movie they make, (the exception is DeadPool, but theirs reasons for that.) and those movies bomb. <br />The Fantastic Four movies, they are mostly garbage. The last one was only made because they didn't want to lose the rights. They rushed it, and Fox ended up making them take out like half the story to add more poorly scripted action scenes. <br /><br />A good director wants to keep the movie as close to the source material as possible and some personal flavor to the missing parts.<br /><br />A great director can keeps the movie close to the source material and only makes changes and additions that improve the overall original story.<br /><br />An additional point is that in many cases the directors are only a least part of the problems. The writers, producers, and studios are often the bigger problems.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10543933983633475898noreply@blogger.com