As I said, the John Steed and Emma Peel of the BBI are not actually John Steed and Emma Peel. They're a pair of retired MI 5 agents that Buckaroo has nicknamed "John Steed" and "Emma Peel." Personally, I would prefer if we stayed away from the "TV shows are real" idea as much as possible. I have no problem with fen forming organizations based off their fictional counterparts. That's what the BBI are. But I don't think we should draw in any characters that are from fictional TV series, unless they're people have been 'waved into that look.
I think it's too easy to leap from a realistic show into something a little more fantastic. If U.N.C.L.E. exists, then what about the X-files team of the FBI, and if they exist, then what about the vampire-hunting agency in "Ultraviolet" (the TV show from the UK, not the movie starring Milla Jovavich). It was my impression that we were starting with the Real World and building on it with the 'wavium. If we start allowing fictional characters that aren't 'waved normal folks or AIs, then we blur that line and muddy our original concept.
I don't care enough to raise a particularly big stink about it, but I'll be leaving any fictionals out of my contributions. All in-jokes will be more circumspect than that.Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
I think it's too easy to leap from a realistic show into something a little more fantastic. If U.N.C.L.E. exists, then what about the X-files team of the FBI, and if they exist, then what about the vampire-hunting agency in "Ultraviolet" (the TV show from the UK, not the movie starring Milla Jovavich). It was my impression that we were starting with the Real World and building on it with the 'wavium. If we start allowing fictional characters that aren't 'waved normal folks or AIs, then we blur that line and muddy our original concept.
I don't care enough to raise a particularly big stink about it, but I'll be leaving any fictionals out of my contributions. All in-jokes will be more circumspect than that.Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
http://www.lrgames.com
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."