From: sysop@newberry.edu (Todd Hill)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:46:20 +0000
I have to wonder why Mackie went out to a prostitute to get laid.
Obvious a plot device to quickly get him out in the rain---you could
chalk it up to emotional rollercoaster he's been on.
He had Nene in the shower with him (unless I misread that scene),
and they've both indicated (mild) interest in each other in the
episodes.
More like he could see her in the shower,
So they could've 'comforted' each other, letting it spill into
celebration over losing their curses [in their eyes,
anyway]... <feels angry glares from BGC fans> Hey, it's just a
theory!
while everyone else was also watching....
Still, Mr. Hill has found another Lemon Departure Point :-)
(Or Rod Sterling could say something about entering the Lemon Zone.)
One thing comes to mind: would Nene get hurt and offended that Mackie
would see outside "comfort"?
Some other comments:
"There are chains of DNA in each spring, protected by hydrogen
bonding...
This doesn't make much chemical sense; hydrogen bonds are weak bonds
that (among many other things) give biological polymers like proteins
and DNA some of their 3D structure. They couldn't actually *protect*
a DNA strand in water.
When you are soaked with water from it, the chains enter your
body and attach themselves to your own DNA. In other words...when you fell
in...you gained the DNA of a woman. There...there are a few other things,
but I haven't figured them out yet...It could be black magic, for all I
know."
I'd advise dropping the mention of hydrogen bonding, and stick to
"black magic", at least until any of us can come up with an something
to explain how most every cell in a body could get semi-instantly
infiltrated with foreign DNA (without lysing the victims cells...).
And there's the minor detail of how such major physical changes could
be triggered by hot and cold water, even with the added "DNA of a woman".
Nanotech could do it, but it is awefully powerful to realisticly
introduce into any universe. Still, Jusenkyo could be the ancient
site of a crashed spaceship of an alien race that had nanotechnology....
Hmmmm, that would give Genom an additional reason to set up shop there.
After the KSes figured out what happened, wouldn't they at least make
an attempt to find out if Linna had survived (or was held captive),
however unlikely (including the injuries sustained in breaking her
suit from the inside)?
I wonder if Mackie would have balked at the high heels....
Also, these two line read like they're said by different people:
her head. "Just...don't make it a habit of dressing up like that, okay?"
"Why did you wear that, anyway?"
Ranma speaks both these lines; you ought to drop the first close
quote, or whatever.
Anyway, keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to more (and I' not
a BGC fan).
On to Blackadder:
>From the FAQ:
1. What is the Blackadder?
The Blackadder is a British Comedy Series starring Rowan Atkinson as
the title role. The series spans from the 15th century all the way up
to World War I, with some stops in between, and one stop in the
future.
One of the most notable things about the series is the acidic tongue,
and quick wit, of Edmund Blackadder, and the uncanny way in which he
seems to have a hand in important situations of Europe's history--and
in the slick way he gets himself into and out of trouble.
He is accompanied through the series by one faithful bondsman,
Baldrick, whose intelligence is comparable to that of a cabbage. Their
families are interwined in a centuries old relationship of servant and
master. You can't help but wonder how the two families managed to
reproduce.
Other familiar faces continually pop up over the centuries--such as
Lord Flasheart, and Lord Percy Percy. One viewer noted that BlackAdder
is to ordinary TV what being a millionaire aristocrat with the sexual
capacity of a rutting rhino is to standing in the middle of a pond
with a small painted wooden duck on your head.
I think that sums it up beautifully.
(http://www1.pitt.edu/~gmbst15/faq.ba)
Date: 20 Apr 96 16:43:35 EDT
From: Ewan Chrystal <100563.2021@CompuServe.COM>
[ Series discussion.... ]
There was also a christmas special which featured the only good and
generous "Blackadder" who preformed a reverse Scrooge when the
ghost of Christmas Future showed his decendent would be the slave
of the grand commander of the galactic empire, Baldrick, unless he
mended his ways and became a natural "Blackadder".
Ebenezer: So: one way, it's glory everlasting; the other, it's wearing
Baldrick's posing pouch!
(With cathouse.org off the net right this moment, it took me a *long*
time to find another site with the script (and all the others):
http://www.ee.duke.edu/~bch/)
There's also a very funny "Blackadder: The Cavalier Years":
Edmund: Oh, damn -- one measly civil war in the entire history of England,
and I'm on the wrong bloody side!
He bravely tries to save the life of King Charles from Cromwell---the
alternative of a Purtain England is too horrible to contemplate....
It was done for a charity broadcast, so you'll have to catch it on a
PBS broadcast or what have you.
BTW, while trying to find the script to the Christmas Carol special
(only one I didn't have) I came across some Deep Space 9/Babylon
5/Blackadder parodies: http://www.well.com/user/baldric/bl59.htm
- Harold