Looks like Scribe is getting ignored a bit. I find myself preoccupied with this week’s planned ‘aWLoN!’ post. So rather than make something half ass, I’m just going to go with it, and start working on Friday’s post, early. Err..After I write this Hogwash that is-
It’s funny, I really liked last week’s Ratchet post, but more and more I come up with weird feedback. I know it’s never popular when I talk about these things. I mean, I welcome feedback, so there isn’t meant to be any negative connotation when I discuss these things in a post. Please, feel free to join the site, and make comments if you are so inclined.
That being said, I feel the need to say, I really wasn’t doing the whole ‘boy genius builds the family robot’ thing, nor even Anakin Skywalker building C-3P0. The First Wave are meant to be the tinkers of the galaxy. Any one of them could have built this bot-body for Margo. Ratchet might be a bit more proficient, thanks to his Uncle Chuck’s military training, but really, I had Ratchet do it because he was free from what I had planned elsewhere on the moon. So, if he doesn’t come off as a ‘boy genius’ earlier (or later) in the story, that’s because he really was never meant to be a boy genius.
In fact, I kind of want to say that anyone could build things like this, that’s just how easy the tech is in the Onion. I imagine the governments have a strangle hold on part manufacturing, but once you have the right parts, well, you can build most anything. I’d maintain that the Royal Alliance ‘commoners’ are more likely to actually do this, while Consortium’s lower classes are too busy imagining the top.
If at all, I’d say the genius part would be in the writing of the program that runs the body, which he didn’t. They ‘found’ a data-sphere, he just snapped all the bits together. You’d have to be able to hack the galaxy in the midst of a high speed vehicle chase, or build a device that can send a wave of power canceling energy across an entire moon, to be considered a genius in the Onion.
I suppose I could have had Harper build it- I just didn’t see her that way. I thought the pair of them working on this project was cute, even if I did wander into a kind of a sexist attitude about who was doing what. lol Once again, I blame society. I maintain that it was cute, and it was true to the characters, so I’ll just forget about this sexist crap.
ty, DD
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