[OOC] Steampunk?

[robkelk]

That kind of feels like a choice between whether or not I want mushrooms or anchovies on my pizza. While I recognize that they are both technically foods, I don't want either of them to touch my pizza, because they are gross. They are non-gross to some people, apparently. I'll swallow it if I have to.

And we just offered you both...

On the steampunk side... honestly, it's just Girl Genius I dislike. I used to read it and liked it for several years, and then there was just a point where it just seemed like a bunch of repetitive wacky hijinks with no character development. And worse, it seemed like the uh, what are they called... oh, sparks, yes, the sparks make everyone else suffer so they can have wacky hijinks. And in that sense, it's the same criticism as for the superhero genre.

Considering how many dangling plot threads the work has, the majority related to recurring supporting characters, I can't disagree with that analysis... Steve Jackson Games thinks that the story is good enough for a game setting, but I have to wonder how many people (like me) bought the gamebook for its use as a gazetteer for the web comic.

I haven't read/watched a lot of steampunk, but I think it could be done with:
Wild Wild West
Sakura Wars
Nadia - I once had them on a list I wanted in my own apartment/cast, but that didn't happen
Steel Angel Kurumi - I haven't seen it but I watched the OP and I see a tornado run, so that's in

USA and Mexico, Japan, Africa, and Japan (again), respectively.

Princess Principal: don't know anything about this one

Slightly-misleading high concept: John le Carré with Cavorite, retelling a particular Mark Twain story that it would be a major spoiler to name, in a Victorian/Edwardian-ish London split like Cold-War-era Berlin. The titular Princess is Victoria's granddaughter.