Towards point one, I know people in Europe and other such places may be used to things that are 600 or more years old, but personally, I find a school that was operating 200 years ago and is still in operation within the same field, fairly impressive for America.
We tend to reuse old buildings after we've built newer ones, so we don't have a lot of places still doing the same thing they did a century or two ago.
Something I found strange, the focus on the expedition to Alaska. That seems notable to me, so I asked a question about potential "power source for oddness" in that direction.
Also… there's no way Joseph King is a descendant of Charles is there? I mean, that would be a bit too odd, right?
Is it just me or does biomancer seam to be a dark foil to the scholar? Both seam to be characters who do most of their work subtlely and avoid the lime-light.
I'm just glad Scholar didn't run into a bunch of malformed mistakes of misused magic while getting the stone. Guess Biomancer just dumps them in different places.
@kitmehsu: Also Scholar learns all the information he can because it lets him help people better, while Biomancer learns stuff for his own selfish purposes.
I do like that Scholar's arguably the most heroic hero so far, in that he's so focused on helping people that he even tries to rehabilitate the bad guys.
@Princess Cool: Could be that not all of Biomancer's flawed prototypes warp leylines. Dude's probably got lots of weird stuff he's dabbled in.
To be fair, if one character was going to have an overview that short, it would be The Scholar.
I do agree with Powerhound though that I generally prefer episodes that give you a strong overview of the character and then use the Q&A section to flesh out details from the overview, rather than having an overview with key sections of the character arc missing because someone asks a cool question. Something more like the earlier episodes, rather than the latter, but there's probably a balance somewhere between those two ideas.
On an unrelated note, as much as I love The Scholar and am very sad to see him gone from the future of Sentinel Comics, I really think the act of sacrificing himself in order to save Guise is sincerely one of my favorite moments from the game. The incap art from the foil pack of Scholar of the Infinite is probably my favorite art in the game right now.
I had this really strong mental image of the just-created Scholar meeting his wife and trying to prove who he is with things only he could know -- "Do you remember the night I asked you to marry me? I said--" and so on -- as she gets increasingly distressed until she pulls out a shotgun and tells him something along the lines of "I don't know how you're doing that, but you need to leave me and my family alone right now!"
Like, not so much that she even doesn't believe him, but the cognative dissonance gets worse the longer they're talking... she KNOWS her husband is dead, but her memories are all messy and distorted, and being forced to face that is incredibly uncomfortable, and ultimately it's easier to make the problem just go away than to figure out why it's happening.
@Escher: Yeah, that's the part of the situation that was horrifying for me, because I can just imagine how much it would drive both sides of the matter crazy and hurt them. After that it kinda goes to just being really sad. It's gotta be like being a ghost except you're actually still living.
@TakeWaker: Now you got me trying to remember how many "character voices" we've heard from C&A. We've got Adam's old-timey radio announcer voice which I still would make a pretty good Grandpa Legacy. We have Christopher doing Wager Master now and then, and now Argent from the Boards Alive podcast.
@Powerhound: Thing is, Wager Master is supposed to be annoying, so that's all right...
Wager Master may be annoying but unless they plan a whole episode with Adam in his old timey radio voice then the Wager Master episode should not consist of Christopher doing his Wager Master voice.
I would definitely be down for an episode consisting mostly of Adam’s old timey radio voice. In fact, I had been thinking just before this episode that it had been too long since we had heard it, so I was very pleased!
Are you folks able to tell the difference between Adam's old-timey radio voice and mine? We both did them in The Scholar's episode. Personally, I prefer Adam's. He nails it.
He still comments how he is annoyed doing those voices each time. I fully expect he’ll do more of those voices but I sincerely doubt Christopher will keep it up all episode long.