mpanty
Keen Commander
Mais non!! Mais non, mais non, mais non!! <G>Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
I ignored your statement about Axius because you didn't *say* anything about Axius -- you simply repeated that they "were different"... but you didn't say why or how (I already explained about the uniform -- if you need something else explained, please post it <G>).
I did say something about Axius, and you just went on saying "...now we were complaining that Ben Ohlander *changed* the episode to make sense"... Note LOAF, these are YOUR words, I have allowed myself to put them in italic and ALL CAPS:
LOAF, you just have ADMITTED it!!! He *changed* it!! There is a discrepancy, which just proves my point!!Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Re: Axius. First, if I might interject a personal comment on this bit -- the *reason* Ohlander changed the novel as he did was because, in 1996, you people were obsessed with ranting about how little sense it made in WCIV for Blair to infiltrate Axius in that manner. So he CHANGED it to "make sense" -- and now you're complaining about that (by you, I mean in general -- not you specifically, mp)!
BTW:
I agree, but Barons are stubborn...
In general, it's also best to refrain from pre-mature "YOU PROVEDED MY POINTedness"... that doesn't get us anywhere...
No, I does notmake sense!! If as you claim, the Intercom link happened before Blair visiting the planet, Blair would have NEVER set foot on Telamon in the first place. Remember the doctor specifically tells him NOT to come on the planet, for risk of being killed himself...
Telamon
(...)The point is that the scene can work either with Blair knowing or *not* knowing about the attack -- since all of the questions are different from the novel's 'comm-chat'.
Now Blair is daring, but he is not stupid... He trusts the doctor opinion, and from the novel, it appears as the doctor does not even know if the "virus" (because as you say, he does not mention "nanobots") is contagious or not, hence the WHOLE PLANET is put in quarantine (and the BW forces even have to shoot down shuttles trying to leave the planet).
Do not ignore this "quarantine" LOAF...
If Blair had flown to Telamon, he would have been shot like the rest... in the novel: HARD EVIDENCE that the Heart of the Tiger NEVER set foot on the planet!!!
I don't know what you're trying to prove here, LOAF, but mark my words: Catscratch is flying that mission with you in the GAME, he is not in the novel... Period, full stop, this IS another discrepancy!
Catscratch and Vagabond
Blair thinks specifically about them because they're his friends -- specifically, they're his friends whom Confed will be especially interested in punishing if he causes a war. Why does he separate Catscratch and Vagabond from the rest of the Lexington crew in your situation? Why doesn't he include Gunderson in his 'list' -- someone who's *definately* on the Lexington (if we are to believe that Vag and Cat are still Confed pilots, there's no reason why they'd still be on the Lex during a scramble...) and whom Blair seems to be more of a friend with than Vagabond and certainly Catscratch?
Yes he does!!! I'm talking about the hypothetical situation of the game in which you destroy the Lexington instead of disabling it...
Confed does *not* use the incident to start a war, because Blair did *not* destroy the Lexington...
What happens in the game script then??? NOTHING!! The story carries on the same way as if the Lexngton had been disabled... NO WAR (until the assembly meeting)!!!
Therefore Blair's worries *in the novel*, have NO REASON TO BE *in the game*...