So Peg and I had a semiformal albeit slightly belated anniversary dinner last night in a very nice restaurant (in fact, the same one that hosted our wedding reception 13 years and 4 days ago). It's been a busy few weeks, and as we relaxed and ate some really delicious food, looking out the large windows at the beautiful scenery around the restaurant, what do you think we talked about?
That's right, a Drunkard's Walk Step in Trigun.
Although to be fair, we spent a goodly about of time doing basic speculation on the nature of "Those who dwell outside of time" and other things in the series. For instance, we realized that Vash could have sidestepped the moral/ethical dilemma Legato forced him into by simply pistol-whipping the smug jerk into unconsciousness instead of shooting him; if Vash has no problems shooting to wound, he certainly shouldn't object to that.
But anyway... Peggy liked the idea of Doug intersecting the cast right after Wolfwood's duel with his "teacher" -- we started laying out the very scene where Doug comes across the dying Wolfwood in the church. We came to the conclusion that, as far as the final showdown with Knives was concerned, Doug would be almost useless -- that town where Milly was digging the well could make better use of him than Vash could. We also decided that if Doug saved Wolfwood with a healing song, then the first major deviation from the remaining plot would be the return of his "teacher" to finish his job... only to get his ass kicked righteously by the Wolfwood-Doug team.
And then we got the idea to do this not as a DW Step, but as an installment of "Drunkard's Vacation" -- with both Doug and Shadowwalker showing up on Gunsmoke. Which I quite like the idea of. I just got this image of Milly dropping her minigun, and Maggie just casually picking it up and handing it to her -- "Here, you dropped this" -- while an entire saloon boggles at them. Sorta like that early scene with the girls, only cranked a couple notches higher on the comedy scale.
Anyway, enough rambling. I just wanted to let folks know that this is being thought about in odd and different ways.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
That's right, a Drunkard's Walk Step in Trigun.
Although to be fair, we spent a goodly about of time doing basic speculation on the nature of "Those who dwell outside of time" and other things in the series. For instance, we realized that Vash could have sidestepped the moral/ethical dilemma Legato forced him into by simply pistol-whipping the smug jerk into unconsciousness instead of shooting him; if Vash has no problems shooting to wound, he certainly shouldn't object to that.
But anyway... Peggy liked the idea of Doug intersecting the cast right after Wolfwood's duel with his "teacher" -- we started laying out the very scene where Doug comes across the dying Wolfwood in the church. We came to the conclusion that, as far as the final showdown with Knives was concerned, Doug would be almost useless -- that town where Milly was digging the well could make better use of him than Vash could. We also decided that if Doug saved Wolfwood with a healing song, then the first major deviation from the remaining plot would be the return of his "teacher" to finish his job... only to get his ass kicked righteously by the Wolfwood-Doug team.
And then we got the idea to do this not as a DW Step, but as an installment of "Drunkard's Vacation" -- with both Doug and Shadowwalker showing up on Gunsmoke. Which I quite like the idea of. I just got this image of Milly dropping her minigun, and Maggie just casually picking it up and handing it to her -- "Here, you dropped this" -- while an entire saloon boggles at them. Sorta like that early scene with the girls, only cranked a couple notches higher on the comedy scale.
Anyway, enough rambling. I just wanted to let folks know that this is being thought about in odd and different ways.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.