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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 1104819" data-attributes="member: 1194">Umbran - dude, you scare me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />You quoted that much of the OHOTMU?Do you have it in an online form, or something, or did you type that much out by hand?If the latter, than you are one dedicated comics fan committed to getting The Word out there!  Props - Stan would be proud. About Magma - that's great that they remembered her - of course, I might have a problem, if that picture is of her.The MAgma from the New Mutants was a blonde, naive (hot <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) Brazilian girl who was noticeable for her lack of connections to the mutant world, and her lack of comfortability with said mutants.Let me guess - did they 'contemporize' her, and make her urban? Naivete might as well be the kiss of death to youngsters, it seems...  God forbid you don't know everything about everything. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />I couldn't agree with you more, Canis. :highfive:I have a bit more respect for Claremont's originality thru the years, but overall the guy has a SERIOUS habit for lazy writing - he loves to create plots, but he CANNOT finish them. I don't know if that's his inability personally, or just his comics approach.But if it wasn't for him being in a comics medium, where new characters and teams of villians are needed to push sales, than his incredibly frustrating way of never resolving any conflict he sets up would have had him drummed out of most fields.Combined with the sloppiness of seldom detailing powers, so that he can make them do whatever he wants without working at it, and I'm suprised he's as revered as he is.Most of the personality & spirit of the 'new' X-Men, AFAIK, came from John Byrne.Skade - I can't watch Star Trek anymore - wanna know the reason?Cause I'm not a fan of drama. I prefer sci fi/fantasy.And Star Trek is so far away from sci-fi it's a joke.I actually heard them quote the tempurature in space as -500 C (or something close to that).It's a bad sign when the writers of a show SET IN SPACE are not aware of the physical truth called "absolute Zero." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I disagree.Comics, when they are worth the paper they're printed on (i.e. they're worth keeping) keep an internally consistent approach to superpowers. Yes, these powers do not exist in reality... HOWEVER if they did, they would work something like this: and then show how they do and sometimes don't work. The powers the characters weild are kind of part of their personality - they define the limits the character has, and the parameters in which they can work.A character with no set boundaries to their powers is a problem, character-wise - they have no set parameters, so how can there be any Pathos involved with them?They might as well be the Hand of God set in motion to do what the writer wants to happen.That's not storytelling - that's lazy writing, to not utilize the characters that you've set forth to accomplish what you need to get done.Deus Ex Machina is not a typically smiled-upon mechanism for storywriting - it's usually the purview of hacks.</blockquote>

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