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What's a Canadian based RPG developer got to do with it?
Quote:You should also realize that what Doug thinks and what I think aren't necessarily the same thing. I'll admit that I certainly saw things enough from that perspective to prompt me to use that entire plot line, but between comments here, comments from my prereaders, and rewatching the series, it seems the question isn't as clear-cut as Doug thinks it is and I thought it was. And the final developments of the story are going to reflect that.
Quite frankly, this whole boomer sentience bit seems more like what they did in BGC: Tokyo 2040. But...eh. Never saw much in the original series that said "boomers are oppressed sentient beings", but that doesn't necessarily mean that Bob-o here can't construct a piece of fiction in that mindset.
That being said, the canon background material available on the BGC world does make it clear that Dr. Stingray was creating useful, disposable thinking creatures for use as labor. That comes close enough to the concept of breeding a slave race for me...
Quote:Well, basically, yes. But I also set myself the challenge of trying to stay as close to canon as I can and still provide a viewpoint that's radically different from the usual run-of-the-mill BGC fic.
I don't see why everyones' tossing around cannon this and cannon that...isn't that the point of a piece of fan fiction? To get away from that, a little? So long as you got the basics right, that is...
Quote:Well, he's supposed to, a little. As I've said a number of times, I am trying to poke a little fun at the usual self-insert behaviors, and the know-it-all with complete recall of the series deciding what's best for everyone is one of the classics. Here's someone without that godlike knowledge pulling the same attitude -- looks a lot different from this angle, eh?
Oh, I have to agree with Murmer here just a little. Doug comes off as a bit haughty and zealous,
Quote:Oh, good. That was one of my first "design decisions" -- that he wouldn't do that, and wouldn't want to. Joining the Sabers, or just allying with them, has been done to death. In some cases very well, but still...
but I was happier with the nonstandard outcome, with him not teaming up with the Sabres at the first reasonably decent juncture.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.