Fanfiction 3/9/07

[scarfman]

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a seperate post.

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Thanks for reading.

Comments

[hergrace.livejournal.com]

LOL at the reference to the "They Miss You" ads (which I've only JUST discovered are advertising a sleeping tablet.) Honestly, those ads look great, but unless you read the small print you can't tell what's being sold.

Also, in the last frame, I get the reference, but who is that standing to Capt. America's right?

Always a pleasure reading your work, Paul!

[scarfman]

Cap's right, our left? Joining the characters who are dead and stay dead? That's Starbuck.

I did post a notice the first month I was on LJ that these cartoons may contain unlabeled spoilers.

[hergrace.livejournal.com]

No fear -- not a show I watch. :-) Thanks!

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I like the way that Triangle Starbuck looks exactly like Triangle Tasha (even though I love the former and loathe the latter).

Still, I suspect that she's not technically in either group. Her hand was on the ejection lever, and I think we caught a glimpse of the Raider -- one of the Heavy Raiders, with passenger space -- from APOLLO'S cockpit, even though he was too distracted to notice.

I DON'T htink she's going to wake up on a Cylon res-ship, though -- especially after this episode. Her background memories are too in-depth. Sharon may have believed she was human, but never really evidenced any childhood memories.

Still, I wouldn't put it past the BSG crowd to kill off a major character like that, and squeeze a whole lotta drama out of it.

[scarfman]

I put Starbuck in with the stay-deads on the basis of a podcast interview with Sackhoff of which I read, in which she discusses the other work she's lining up including a tv pilot. If that was disinformation and I'm wrong, I can always draw another cartoon moving her over to the don't-stay-deads later.

My take on Tasha is that she was yet another instance of the young, rebellious female Starfleet officer that they didn't get right until Kira*. Starbuck is also an example of the archetype, but even though the spiritual resemblance to Tasha stops there I thought the physical resemblance was worth a poke.

* First** person to comment that Kira wasn't in Starfleet never appears in original Dailies again (or, as the case may be, ever).

** Any others, too.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

"Maybe it's the timeslot."

There was an episode of Murphy Brown where the CEO was explaining show/timeslot theory and he mentions the "Crap Slot". "Nothing works there", he complains. Personally, I figure they intentionally put shows into the Crap Slot(s) when they don't want a show to succeed, but for one reason or another can't simply pull it off the schedule. Of course I also imagine Corporate America having court drama on a level that would make Machiavelli feel like he'd found the Promised Land, so I'm not the most objective person to ask about the subject.

[billroper]

Actually, NBC moved Studio 60 to Monday and bumped Medium from that timeslot, because they thought it would be more favorable than the Thursday night slot they'd originally planned to put it in. Apparently not...

[valsadie.livejournal.com]

Crying laughing over the Garrett Morris!! Nobody ever remembers Garrett; he was funny! If that bit was animated, it'd be a hilarious addition to the Buffy Sing-A-Long screenings!

Who is that between Paul McGann and Eddie Murphy in the re-cast strip?

GOOD NIGHT AND HAVE A PLEASANT TOMORROW!!

[scarfman]

That's Commander Admiral Adama.

Concerning the "alive/dead" cartoon

[(Anonymous)]

I see that you've classified the left group as "dead/stays dead" characters and the right group as "dead/doesn't stay dead", but when I looked at it I read it a rather different way, which puzzled me a little.

In the group of 4 characters on the right, Ben Kenobi has not corporeally returned from the dead in his story, while the others have ; of the 4 on the left, Tasha Yar has (albeit courtesy of a time-travel gimmick) while the others have not. Kenobi, in other words, died once-and-for-all, but that doesn't keep him from sticking around. Yar died once (tar monster), then came back via temporal anomaly (actually replaced by herself rather than resurrected) and died again (Romulan firing squad).

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