Hey look it's that topic that we all really wanted and in no way was the vote influenced by Christopher and Adam
https://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-153-creative-process-legacy-supporting-cast
Actually kept notes this time! :D I'm surprised we didn't get a "Bimmy Jolson: Legacy's Friend" gag. :P
Hey, that issue with his friend came out my original birthmonth! :D
Oh man, the Letters Page letter writer personalities fandom is heating up!
Now I want to see a future-setting Disparation about "The Galaxy's Finest Legacy" or "Earth's Cosmic Legacy" or something. Traversing the vaccuum of space without need for air, food or water, able to communicate with all sapient beings... The sky is literally not the limit here!
It's good to finally have confirmation that there is indeed design space in SOTM for Terminus's Stained Badge.
The new outro is... wordy? A little weird that Anthony is introduced as "Christopher's brother" (though that's at least partially because everyone else gets to be "me"). The new outro theme at least is pleasant, and if nothing else, this seems to be a good time to unveil a new outro because we're moving into Publisher's Notes. It's a transition period!
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The Mutants and Masterminds character Christopher remembered is Doctor Metropolis
Regarding one of the answers to a listener question: I'm gonna disagree with the statement that it's never quite clear whether "prime" Guise can break the 4th wall or just guesses accurately. If he wasn't breaking the 4th wall, then bottling the prime universe wouldn't make him suddenly super sane and able to focus his powers like never before, which is canonically what happens. Being suddenly unable to see the 4th wall is what makes him able to achieve the Avatar State.
Or was that because of the Scholar's philosopher's stone? ;-)
I like the new outro! :-D Surprised it doesn't mention the question submission page URL and their other contact methods, though, as the old one did. I assumed it was because those would be in the show notes, but they aren't. :-\
I hadn't noticed that. I was missing the progeny theme for the outtro.
I found myself focusing on the snaps in "Christopher and Adam", but apparently those have always been there. c.c
Was I the only one a tiny bit saddened at the whole bit of realizing that one of the nicest and kindest heroes in the Multiverse doesn't actually really have a person he can call a friend friend?
No, I definitely got a big "aww" after hearing "Legacy doesn't have any friends".
Like... aww, c'mon, big guy needs friend. :C
I think he has a LOT of friends -- but we already know them. :-) At some point, most of the heroes of Earth have been in his backyard, eating and drinking and hanging out. He has a lot of people he can hang out with and confide in. Most of them happen to be heroes.
I felt that "aww" a bit also, but I think the key to remember is that he's probably not the only non-hero friend that Legacy has, but just the only one who's been relevant to the comics.
Legacy doesn't have a regular job or a secret identity, which are the two main generators of rich non-hero supporting casts. He might have neghborhood block-party bashes in addition to hero cookouts, but they're not part of plots really. He also might just be a real "work and family" kinda guy, one of those "my partner is my best friend" people who deeply and truly means it.
PS. When Adam was cleverly disguising the name of a popular comics hero as "Spiders-Man", am I the only one who was then thinking of this particular alternate version of said hero which Adam should definitely, definitely not think too much about? (Servere Spider Warning there, for any "no spiders please" folks)
Director Jefferson Knight feels a lot to me like Captain Jellico from the very famous episode of Star Trek TNG where he replaced Picard for a couple hours.
I’d want to do like three characters that are like the Legion of Super Neighbors, where it’s a college roommate, a guy who loves down the street, and somebody who works in an office across the street from Freedom Tower and regularly invites Legacy to join him for lunch at a diner they both independently go to.
More should have been said in this episode about the fact that America, out of all countries, intentionally limits the power of its head of state and basically all other parts of the government. A supervillain president would be able to do FAR less damage than say a supervillain King of France, Premier of Australia, Emperor of Australia, “president” of some African country that is de facto run by a warlord, etc.
Had a thought about Absolute Zero come out off the Angry Taxpayer letter … Much like how Apostate came to Fanatic and told her ‘you’re a member of the Host like me’, you could have some being of pure cold, like a Frost Wraith or a Winter Fey or something, show up and do that story with Absolute Zero, explain that there was never a cryo accident and he’s always been this alien changeling with stolen memories from a human who died.
I think The Goat of Mordengrad literally is the original Scape-Goat, named Azazel if I remember my Bible trivia correctly. It was driven out of the desert by the Semitic tribes near Mount Ararat, wandered across the lands of the Kievan Rus, and arrived in the mountains of Lithuania near the Latvian border, where some goat-herding locals began to worship this foreign goat as a god, since it obviously wasn’t a local Balkan mountain goat.
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