[OOC] Beyond the Boundaries RP

[Palindromatic]

My post is slowly coming along. I really don't want to write an entire novel as the intro post, buuuuut...

[Milieu]

@Genkai: We couldn't give the spin of some evil menacing intergalactic criminal-mathematician steals the plant and plays with its genetics and makes a crazy sentient humanoid flower clone thingy?
No?
Well, I'm down to play it by ear ^_^

[Milieu]

@Genkai: We couldn't give the spin of some evil menacing intergalactic criminal-mathematician steals the plant and plays with its genetics and makes a crazy sentient humanoid flower clone thingy?
No?
Well, I'm down to play it by ear ^_^

[Milieu]

@Genkai: We couldn't give the spin of some evil menacing intergalactic criminal-mathematician steals the plant and plays with its genetics and makes a crazy sentient humanoid flower clone thingy?
No?
Well, I'm down to play it by ear ^_^

[Milieu]

My bad about the multiple posts :3

[Genkai]

Palindromatic said
My post is slowly coming along. I really don't want to write an entire novel as the intro post, ...

Don't worry, just post. XD

Kaga said
Yeah, I've heard a lot of good things about Orphan Black. I just haven't gotten around to watching it yet (or starting many new series at all recently) since I've been devoting much of my free time to getting through a certain 26-season show as quickly as possible. I've only recently started slowing down on that just to catch up on Korra and Welcome to Night Vale...

You really should watch it. I had to put LoK on pause myself but that's because the second season was a bit "eh" which made me less thrilled about its return. *shrugs*

Milieu said
@Genkai: We couldn't give the spin of some evil menacing intergalactic criminal-mathematician steals the plant and plays with its genetics and makes a crazy sentient humanoid flower clone thingy? No?Well, I'm down to play it by ear ^_^

Hahaha. Um probably not...though I'm getting flashbacks to old anime now,

Erm, we shall see though! Who knows who or what is lurking in the abyss...

Milieu said
My bad about the multiple posts :3

Nope, not forgiven. I must now banish you!! *dragon rages the computer screen*

[Kaga]

Genkai said
I had to put LoK on pause myself but that's because the second season was a bit "eh" which made me less thrilled about its return.

If it helps you any, the 3rd season is much better than the 2nd.

The 2nd season was a mess because the Korra writers originally only planned on having one season (hence why Korra Book 1 was so self-contained and really didn't transition into the start of another story at the end). So then all of a sudden Nickelodeon said "hey, write three more seasons" and they were like "fuuuuuck what do we do now?" which led to the 2nd season coming out really rushed and messy - hence why the only really good parts were the beginning and the end, with the middle being filled with sloppy filler.

As of this season, it looks like they finally know what they're doing and they can put together a cohesive story again. I haven't finished it yet (only have, like, 2-3 chapters left, though, depending on whether or not you count the finale as one or two chapters) but from what I've seen, the story is held together much better than the 2nd or even the 1st season. Also the bending matches look gorgeous, and so do all the spirits. (And unlike in the 2nd season, we get said gorgeous bending and spirits all throughout the story rather than only at the beginning and end.)

It's kind of funny because the first chapter of book 3 is titled "A Breath of Fresh Air" or something similar to that. I feel like that title refers more to the writers' situation than anything else. XD

[Genkai]

Kaga said
If it helps you any, the 3rd season is much better than the 2nd.

The 2nd season was a mess because the Korra writers originally only planned on having one season (hence why Korra Book 1 was so self-contained and really didn't transition into the start of another story at the end). So then all of a sudden Nickelodeon said "hey, write three more seasons" and they were like "fuuuuuck what do we do now?" which led to the 2nd season coming out really rushed and messy - hence why the only really good parts were the beginning and the end, with the middle being filled with sloppy filler.

As of this season, it looks like they finally know what they're doing and they can put together a cohesive story again. I haven't finished it yet (only have, like, 2-3 chapters left, though, depending on whether or not you count the finale as one or two chapters) but from what I've seen, the story is held together much better than the 2nd or even the 1st season. Also the bending matches look gorgeous, and so do all the spirits. (And unlike in the 2nd season, we get said gorgeous bending and spirits all throughout the story rather than only at the beginning and end.)

It's kind of funny because the first chapter of book 3 is titled "A Breath of Fresh Air" or something similar to that. I feel like that title refers more to the writers' situation than anything else. XD

Season one was good, compared to the second though it was fragmented between Korra's lack of training and her bonding with pro bending and doing a horrible job at making friends. Her choices were horrible and I can't see why Asami or Bolin would have stuck around during season two.

I know LOK was meant to be one season, depending on reception, but season two should have tightened up the development and kept it contained. While I enjoyed some episodes during the second season, it still feel horribly managed. Not to mention, it felt rushed at the end. (I still need to finish the finale but fearing it's cliche, I've avoided it) The romance was horrible in both seasons. While Bolin's was meant to be funny, it was painful to watch. Tenzin's history was a nice touch though.

Being a shipper of Mako/Asami and Bolin/Korra, it's been a tough season because the writers weren't sure how to handle Asami who wasn't supposedly, meant to be a main character or was meant to be a villain at some point.

I've heard good things about the third season and I hear they go out of RC which good news, but I'm still not very eager to watch it, which saddens me because the music and animation have often been wonderful.

Speaking of things I'm not overly excited about, I still have Into the Dalek to get around to...>___>

Overall, Korra's crappy development and poor choices have been hard to watch and have brought down great side characters. Hopefully she's redeeming herself and owning up to her mistakes. Personally? I would have liked Korra to contemplate suicide at the end of season one. Supposedly it wasn't meant to be implied but her not getting her bending back right away and having to slow down, would have made her more relateable for me but then again she's the Avatar...she's got tons of responsibility...doesn't need to be human or anything. XD

[Milieu]

@Genkai: Are you a Gyarados?

[Kaga]

Genkai said
Season one was good, compared to the second though it was fragmented between Korra's lack of training and her bonding with pro bending and doing a horrible job at making friends. Her choices were horrible and I can't see why Asami or Bolin would have stuck around during season two.I know LOK was meant to be one season, depending on reception, but season two should have tightened up the development and kept it contained. While I enjoyed some episodes during the second season, it still feel horribly managed. Not to mention, it felt rushed at the end. (I still need to finish the finale but fearing it's cliche, I've avoided it) The romance was horrible in both seasons. While Bolin's was meant to be funny, it was painful to watch. Tenzin's history was a nice touch though. Being a shipper of Mako/Asami and Bolin/Korra, it's been a tough season because the writers weren't sure how to handle Asami who wasn't supposedly, meant to be a main character or was meant to be a villain at some point. I've heard good things about the third season and I hear they go out of RC which good news, but I'm still not very eager to watch it, which saddens me because the music and animation have often been wonderful.Speaking of things I'm not overly excited about, I still have Into the Dalek to get around to...>___> Overall, Korra's crappy development and poor choices have been hard to watch and have brought down great side characters. Hopefully she's redeeming herself and owning up to her mistakes. Personally? I would have liked Korra to contemplate suicide at the end of season one. Supposedly it wasn't meant to be implied but her not getting her bending back right away and having to slow down, would have made her more relateable for me but then again she's the Avatar...she's got tons of responsibility...doesn't need to be human or anything. XD

o.o Well like I said, season 2 had some excuses for being horribly rushed. In season 3, the writers actually know what they're doing - which is why it's a lot nicer. It also avoids terrible love triangles, and provides more backstory info for existing characters (particularly Lin). Additionally, Korra's behavior is no longer painfully stupid to watch, and Bolin's jokes have improved... slightly. Not gonna try to oversell that one.

But yeah, I know season 2 sucked for a lot of reasons, but season 3 fixed virtually all those things because they weren't rushing as much. Also there's at least some continuity between seasons 2 and 3, unlike 1 and 2 where the latter seems to have mostly pretended the former never happened.

Also if you want enjoyable animations, there's plenty of that in the fight scenes. o.o They got really creative with the bending this time, too, since we have a lavabender, a waterbender who has no arms but uses bending to create water-arms, and the return of whatever-the-hell Combustion Man was doing in the original series. :D As well as another massive change that pretty much shakes the very foundations of the bending world... but I won't spoil that here. But yeah, overall season 3 is a billion times better than season 2. A massive improvement. They really took into consideration all the flaws with season 2 and even season 1. In fact, it almost feels like a massive apology.

Speaking of season 2, though, you never watched the finale? o.o The last handful of episodes are just about the only really good part of the whole season, though! They almost make up for the rest of it.

But enough about Korra... why so apprehensive about Into the Dalek? O.o I thought it was a pretty intense and emotional episode. But... I will admit, that's just me. The fandom seems kind of split on it, as a lot of people are saying it seems like a re-hash of Dalek from season 1, but if you ask me there are a lot of key differences that make the emotional impact of everything in Into the Dalek (including a certain line admittedly kind of similar to one from Dalek which I will not spoil here...) a lot heavier. Also, this one got awfully creative in expanding more on how Daleks work. Never would've guessed that the metal parts of them are practically just as "living" as the flesh part, for one...

[Palindromatic]

Kaga said
But enough about Korra... why so apprehensive about Into the Dalek? O.o I thought it was a pretty intense and emotional episode. But... I will admit, that's just me. The fandom seems kind of split on it, as a lot of people are saying it seems like a re-hash of Dalek from season 1, but if you ask me there are a lot of key differences that make the emotional impact of everything in Into the Dalek (including a certain line admittedly kind of similar to one from Dalek which I will not spoil here...) a lot heavier. Also, this one got awfully creative in expanding more on how Daleks work. Never would've guessed that the metal parts of them are practically just as "living" as the flesh part, for one...

I haven't gotten around to obviously in a very legal way watching the new season yet, but what you said about it really makes me regret not watching it sooner. How's Peter Capaldi? I've heard from a few people that he's great, but not great as the Doctor. I feel for the most part it's people just comparing him to Matt Smith, though.

[Kaga]

Palindromatic said
I haven't gotten around to watching the new season yet, but what you said about it really makes me regret not watching it sooner. How's Peter Capaldi? I've heard from a few people that he's great, but not great as the Doctor. I feel for the most part it's people just comparing him to Matt Smith, though.

I agree completely with this last part. People will always compare the new Doctor to the one that came before, saying they're not as good - only to (generally) develop a fondness for them over time. People don't seem to grasp the concept that as the Doctor regenerates, he truly becomes a new man, and so we get a new take on the Doctor's personality. :/ Comparing him to Matt Smith just doesn't work since he isn't the same Doctor.

But yeah, I think Capaldi's great. He is, as we were told he would be a long time ago, a much darker Doctor (in fact he kind of reminds me of Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor), but I like that. I'm already really starting to love that face, too, because hot damn can that man scowl. He knows how to glare at the camera in just the right way to deliver all the intensity of the Doctor in a single look. It really is impressive. @_@ I can see why this was the feature they chose to showcase of him in Day of the Doctor.

As for his episodes, I like what I've seen so far. Deep Breath was great as far as post-regeneration episodes go. Not a perfect episode overall, but it was a fun ride with quite a few amusing callbacks to older episodes. Oh, and a lot of Fourth-Wall-leaning moments which seemed to be responding to a lot of fan reactions regarding Capaldi's reveal... And Into the Dalek, well, I already gave my opinion on that one. Though I will add that the first two episodes together make a much better introduction for Capaldi than the first episode alone - he was still in a post-regenerative haze for most of Deep Breath, after all. Into the Dalek gives us a much better look at this new Doctor's character, I think.

Oh and holy balls do we get an intriguing overarching season-long plot this time. o.o I mean so far we've seen very little of what's going on, but, based on what we have been shown? Yeah... this is definitely interesting. o.o

Oh oh oh and the new opening animation. Wow. Just wow. o.o It's gorgeous and outside-the-box and a real breath of fresh air. I heard that it was originally fan-made and found its way to Moffat, and he just had a few minor tweaks made for the final version. And if that's true, then that just makes it even more amazing.

[Genkai]

For me, I'm not into Daleks like everyone else in the fandom seems to be, I'm more of a Weeping Angel kind of girl so to see Daleks used more often than I think they should be, is kind of tiring and so soon in the season too...Into the Dalek just didn't hook me but I will watch it before the new episode airs this weekend, it's just hard to get invested once again into DW. I like 12, still don't like Clara so it's those two issues pulling at one another. I'm not into the animation for the new opening, I do like the music for the opening and what I've heard in the first episode at least. I already want the soundtrack.

Anywho...

@Everyone: I haven't seen Redwing around and from the looks of it, RedChatoyant hasn't been active in over a week so if I have to, I'll need to suspect at least RedChatoyant's character and have them come in at a later point in time. I'd love to see Redwing post within the next day or two (IC wise), they've been active elsewhere so I don't see why popping in here would be asking for a lot (OOC wise).

[Kaga]

Genkai said
I'm not into Daleks

Aw, come on... :D



Not even this one? <3

[Genkai]

Well maybe that one...<3

[Kaga]

Genkai said
Well maybe that one...<3

Hehe. XD

[Genkai]

@Everyone: Hmm. I mind end up posting myself in the next 24-30 hours if the other two don't.

I have time on my hands and waiting is eh. *shrugs*

As a heads up, those characters who remained speechless will be straggling behind when I make my post with Qyx escorting those interested inside. So it's up to you if you'd like to edit or not, just make sure they don't get left behind since take off will probably happen at the end of my post or the one after that. I mean sticking around Earth (NYC of all places) at a wee hour isn't exactly exciting or safe. (says the alien)

So...yeah.

[Palindromatic]

Just an idea* - perhaps include a nameless, descriptionless NPC or two that boards the ship in case someone who joined earlier suddenly reappears, still interested in being a part of the RP? One of us current RPer's could always claim one of them later on, should we want a human character. Nice to have a spare human or two around to use, right?

*= also wanted to bump this. So much inactivity.

[Genkai]

I know. u_u but making chances for stragglers to jump back in after being rude (and active elsewhere) isn't a game I like to play. It encourages bad behavior. It's not really my job to drag people to the IC. If they wanna be dicks and ditch, that's their thing. I'm not willing to wait and wait and wait around. I'm getting my post up within the next few hours. I'll put their roles on the back burner but should they come back, they won't be able to jump right in, it's just not fair to you guys and it's disrespectful in my mind. *shrugs* Other players are free to jump in of course but for them, the window to make an intro has been open long enough. >_>'

[Palindromatic]

Fair enough. Early bird gets the worm and all that jazz, right?

They can be the seagulls who get the ugly, dried-up little black scragglies of worm bodies.

Random question: how frequently will our characters return home? And is this something you'll plan for the IC, or will it just occur whenever we all agree to it as a group? I imagine, if it happens, it'll have to be everyone at once.