tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post7563836970493539691..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: HHII: Graduation Part 1.5 (Kim Possible)chris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-24974354409063423422015-05-02T14:22:40.859-04:002015-05-02T14:22:40.859-04:00I've seen only one episode of Kim Possible, an...I've seen only one episode of Kim Possible, and that quite a while ago, but I could follow the story. My main difficulty was in keeping track of the characters, without much to tell who any of them were. I still enjoyed the story a lot, and it seems like the set-up for a great finale, that (if I'm understanding correctly) was not actually used, which is definitely a pity, since I love it when all the one-off episodes are remembered and important in the ending. I especially liked, and I'm not sure if this is part of the show or not, the fact that Ron, while having magical powers, was actually most useful not because of those powers, but because she had organizational and leadership skills, so she got everyone organized and then went off to do the rescue mission where her individual skills would be helpful (I think? That part wasn't quite clear). Anyway, I liked the protagonist being, not the most powerful person, but the one who could work out how to put everyone else's skills to their best use.<br />(Also, there seems to be a typo, where Ron apparently named both of her messages R-1.)<br />-ThalassaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-16306280022711035142015-04-30T10:12:41.127-04:002015-04-30T10:12:41.127-04:00Awesome story, Chris! Can't wait to see where ...Awesome story, Chris! Can't wait to see where it goes from there!Graccushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13910438745269866027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-83114150840214793802015-04-29T11:24:14.445-04:002015-04-29T11:24:14.445-04:00And I just realized that I never picked up on Cous...And I just realized that I never picked up on Cousin Larry going to the robot fight club. Damn.<br /><br />I'll probably write a post on that before I forget what I was going to do.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-78077510759028189282015-04-28T21:50:12.877-04:002015-04-28T21:50:12.877-04:00Ah, sorry. It felt like your kind of gag.
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I sh...Ah, sorry. It felt like your kind of gag.<br /><br />-<br /><br />I should be clear: it's not incomprehensible. To use your same example: I didn't know <i>The Fearless Ferret</i> was an allusion to Batman, but I picked up on the Galaxy-Quest-esque fake-made-real backstory to it. I don't have a problem joining in the middle of the story, either - I enjoyed the 1987 <i>Masters of the Universe</i> movie when I watched it as a kid, and I'd never seen any of the show. What made this so difficult for me was just the wall-to-wall "here's something from a previous episode" nature of it...<br /><br />...which seems to have been your point, writing it. That there was a <em>lot</em> of stuff in previous episodes that should still exist.Packbathttp://packbat.net/w/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-16265353230344556502015-04-28T21:02:20.933-04:002015-04-28T21:02:20.933-04:00Unfortunately, that's not one of mine. That c...Unfortunately, that's not one of mine. That comes straight from the actual episode. Part of the less than two minutes worth of stuff that happens.<br /><br />-<br /><br />As for not really getting it, I'd never have set out to write it without writing what comes before because of course you don't get it. It just sort of popped out of my head more or less fully formed.<br /><br />The plot of the series finale makes no sense, and that sort of thing calls out for rewriting. That said, that call crossed with the idea of not having a reset button, which means that there's a lot of stuff that calls back to things.<br /><br />Just one example:<br /><br /><i>The Fearless Ferret</i> is an episode that's in large part a shout out to Batman.<br /><br />Instead of Mr. West dressing up in a Bat Suit, Mr. North dressed up in a ferret suit. The show was supposed to be every bit the campy silliness of West's real world Batman.<br /><br />The route the episode takes is having North lose the ability to tell fiction from reality and actually constructing all the crime fighting devices from the show (which, because we're talking about a cartoon, actually work in the real world the same way the did in the show) then it has Ron take up the mantle of the the Fearless Ferret (it's a call back to Batman Beyond) until at the end they realize that North had lost touch with reality.<br /><br />What do our crimefighters do when they find an entire base of operations for crime fighting full of crime fighting gizmos? Never speak of it again.<br /><br />But if you didn't have a reset button, they'd probably put at least some of that stuff to at least some use. And, on the off chance they considered themselves above such things, they'd probably be willing to stoop to using it in the case of a full scale alien invasion.<br /><br />So it's not really surprising it's incomprehensible. I tried to make it so you'd at least understand what was going on in the broad strokes ("we have awakened the giant cockroach army" doesn't really require you to know where the giant cockroach army comes from) but it's not surprising it fell flat.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-57914361904784568912015-04-28T18:45:04.468-04:002015-04-28T18:45:04.468-04:00I fear that I don't know enough about Kim Poss...I fear that I don't know enough about Kim Possible to follow the story easily.<br /><br />That said:<br /><br /><i>"Now, just listen to Nana. These kids need to see adults who are brave and strong."<br /><br />"You want me to pull myself together?" Barkin asked.<br /><br />"No, I want you hide in the nurse's office until this whole business blows over."</i><br /><br />...is pretty funny. :)Packbathttp://packbat.net/w/noreply@blogger.com