RpM  wrote:
 

 > And I think you're underestimating ADP's gratitude. If somebody
 > stopped a rampaging boomer form turning your skull into a fine pink
 > mist, you'd be pretty damn gratefull. 
 
 The beat cops and folks on the street certainly would, but
 not the higher ranking people and the bureocrats.

Chief Todo certainly counts as a high ranking person, and he tacitly supported
the KS in that he never stopped Leon from associating with them.
  

 > And as for open support... Leon and Daley. When the two most senior
 > officers on the force save the KS's leader (Red Eyes) and walk PAST
 > three of them to arrest the scientist they suppposedly kidnapped
 > (Double Vision) using officially requisitioned vehicles while on
 > duty both times, that's pretty damn open. 
 
 Yeah, they're the only ones.

Sez who? They just happen to be the only ones we ever SEE.
  

 > Leon is basically a younger, sassier Jim Gordon. They even carry the
 > same kind of gun. 
 
 All I need now is to make Leon the commissioner.
 
 Hrm...

Uh-oh. Leon with REAL authority. That ain't good. ^_-
  

 They never did show any 'flashback' episodes to the time
 that he started his career in BTAS, so I feel that's open
 to interpretation.  And given that they use a lot of material
 from the comics, I take in (love him or hate him) Frank Miller's
 interpretations.
 
 Yes, including Year One.
 
 You read Year One?  Bats had swat teams chasing after his butt,
 hostile angry swat teams with lots of ammunition.

I OWN Year One. And that's where I'm drawing my opinions from; by the end,
Gordon was practically breaking out the Batsignal.

And if you go by the other origins stories (the ones from the forties) he got
in good with James even quicker.
  

 
 > If you kill off Bats and leave the Joker alive, I'm afraid I'm going
 > to have to hunt you down and cause you severe bodily harm. 
 
 You call this joker alive?

I consider any intelligent Boomer with no brain block to be living. It's just
the way I feel about AI's. I almost cried at the end of "Soul of Silicon."
  

 > Besides, what about that teaser with young Sylia, Doctor Raven, and
 > BW wearing his Kingdom Come exosuit? 
 
 He doesn't have to be alive in 2034 at all for that to work...

True.
  

 > >  Didn't Largo have a funny little black box...?
 > 
 > Yes he did, and I'd like to know just how the HELL they managed
 > that. There was ONE black box, that which belonged to Cynthia and
 > was incorporated into the BU-99CX1 Superboomer from BGC 2. Unless
 > the damn thing is considerably more durable than it appeared to be,
 > it should have been destroyed when the particle sats fried the
 > Kawasaki lab site. There was never an explanation as to how Largo
 > got it. 
 
 I thought they did when a dive team went to the remains of
 Aqua City and got it.  Ergo it goes to Mason, therefore to
 Largo.

That's what I'm saying; it wentfrom the dive team into that big-ass red
Superboomer (the BU-99CX1) they fought in episode two. When Nene jammed the
targeting systems with her ECCM, the box went off-course and fried both the
Superboomer and itself. And yet later, the box shows up in Largo. I never got
that.
  

 Episode 2, I think.

Exactly.
  

 > For that matter, if JOKER had it, he probably would have carved a
 > gigantic smiley face into the planet about five seconds after he got
 > free.
 
 You have no idea...

Angels and ministers of grace...
  

 > >  -rpm
 > 
 > Say.... on a completely unrelated side note, what's the deal with
 > Mackie? Why did you pack him off to Germany? He was the coolest
 > member of the team! And you eliminated him with the same damn cheap
 > cop-put that Crash! used. I hate that. 
 
 It's called a cop-out.  I can't write Mackie.

I thought you did pretty good in Frozen Knights. And wait'll you see what _I_
have in store for Mackie and Sylia. Hehehe.
    

 -rpm

-Mercutio
"A plague 'a both your houses!"