Comment on Brockton's Celestial Forge

  1. KNM2001 on Chapter 69 Thu 09 Sep 2021 06:11AM UTC

    While I'm a bit sad to see we didn't get to see the training, that's way overshadowed by him finally getting something done. It was a good choice to skip past it. Otherwise it would've felt like filler.

    That doesn't mean I didn't like the little shout outs Joe made to what happened during it. On the contrary, I absolutely loved it
    My favorite was definitely the mentions Joe's duplicate using Alchemically enhanced Razor Wire and all the fun he did. Special mention goes to the wire arrows that unspool into dragons.

    Aphrodite making Joe a super model is my favorite bit here. Though the well of runes fits Worm, trauma and suffering based superpowers.

    The infinite scaling of creations is pretty big.

    The talk with Alec was a nice touch, and I'm glad Joe finally mamaged to get the costumes delivered.

    Aisha's a treat as always, and I'm sure she's looking forward to her lessons for once

    and the comparison to Excalibur in Web of Magic to actiual Fairy Letters was a nice bit of continuity.

    Rachel being active on Twitter was a nice suprise, the watch is really good for her it seems.

    Last Edited Thu 09 Sep 2021 08:04AM UTC

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    1. Lord Roustabout (Lord_Roustabout) on Chapter 69 Fri 10 Sep 2021 11:34PM UTC

      Training scenes can be a fun demonstration of ability, but without real stakes there’s not much tension. I felt covering the events in retrospect was a better way to handle it, as seeing Aisha’s reaction to the situation which is fun in its own way.

      The idea was that, on Earth Bet, Web of Magic was one of the best shows to come out of Western Animation. Think the best of Avatar, Young Justice, Clone Wars, the DCAU, and other shows of that caliber. It was a show produced by a significant number of very talented Japanese immigrants who were going all out to effectively make their name in America. That said, it was still an American cartoon show, meaning you had network meddling, restrictions form standards and practices, and a limited animation budget. Excalibur didn’t look quite as detailed as it does in the Fate series so Joe sees the lettering as a blobby approximation aping the fairy letters that are extremely significant to him.

      Rachel has a few quiet and thoughtful moments in Worm, she’s just not usually able to indulge in that kind of thing thanks to her innate limitations, defensiveness, and the situation the city was going through. Little things like the fact that an significant portion of social media is centered around sharing videos of dogs is exactly the kind of thing she would gravitate towards, particularly when any barriers keeping her out were removed.

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      1. KNM2001 on Chapter 69 Fri 10 Sep 2021 11:53PM UTC

        Thanks for replying, and yeah, showing the training in retrospect and via Aisha's reaction was the right move.

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