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The One
The One
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I happened to hear one of the songs used in 'The One' (You know, that movie starring Jet Li vs. Jet Li?) on the radio while driving to class tonight, and thinking of it led to thinking of how they could possibly do a sequel to it, and from there to how bad all the fanfic I've seen based on it was, and thence to who might be able to do it right... which generated the following idea.
It's fifteen or twenty years after the events of The One, and we open on someone - a son maybe? - confronting him as to why he doesn't seem to age, never gets sick, etc. Li looks contemplative for a few seconds, but before he can say more than 'Well..." he gets interrupted by a wormhole transit dropping someone in front of him - the interdimensional police dude from the first movie (also visibly older, but not so much - one of the lines in the first movie suggests he also had to or accidentally killed one of his alternates) who's now the HNIC. He tells Li that he has two problems, and he's hoping Li will be willing to solvew hewm for him. It seems that a few hours before, someone else succeeded where Wu Law failed, and became a walking god, now wreaking havoc across the worlds. At the same time, Wu Law has taken over the prison world he was sent to and is in the process of taking over the last garrison - with wormhole eqiupment - as they speak. Figuring that a balance of men-made-gods is better than a single evil one, and that if Wu gets at the teleporter he's just going to come for Li anyway, Detective Dude wants Li to go there and enhume Wu, or at least break up his organisation.
Where Doug fits in would probably be on the prison world, having connected to the wormhole network with his arrival gate just in time to be one of the defenders, and the only one with a prayer of holding off Wu Law directly. He's been doing just that, and is dead beat as we first see him, sore, battered, and having already used most of his better combat songs during the three previous times Wu has attacked that day.
Um. I dunno from there. The song ended, and I got to class.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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I wanted to see this movie, but never got around to it.
I really should go rent it.
Then I could comment.



-- Bob
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Yes, you really should at least rent that movie - I bought it myself, just to have more bullet timey goodness on hand. I won't say it's the kind of film the leaves critics talking about abstract concepts as if they were proper nouns, (Message, Greatness, etc.) but it's a DAMN fine Action flick with a reasonably solid plot to it. What I should mention if you haven't seen it in relation to the snippet above is that Li Law would be unlikely to want to kill his alternate even in extremis if there's any other way to deal with him, and is more likely intending to try subduing him again and then work on how to deal with someone who is One. Any more than that would probably start spoiling things, since you do seem to care about being spoiled.

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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Maybe some time this week I'll rent it...



-- Bob
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"Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert
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s.ranger said "Um. I dunno from there. The song ended, and I got to class."
haha the first time I read this line I thought of you reaching that extra half-inch for the inspiration Smile it just sounds so much like doug's power Smile
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