Subject: Re: Also: three points.
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Posted on: 2014-03-20 17:26:00 UTC

A question regarding the first: are there any trans-dimensional groups you've come across that you didn't want to include in this upcoming event? I'm just curious. I see you have representatives of canon sources, every in-universe party that has ever interacted with the PPC in a major way, and evidently a large number of less prominent players. Was there anything that you looked over and thought "Nah, that won't work"?

The second is a good point. Since they've not really been defined or explored, there's not very much to draw from to make a symbol out of. That makes sense.

I suppose we have reversed ideas on this, then. Nothing wrong with that. I see NASTY as fully capable of expanding in a number of directions, in part because "an organized group of fangirls caught up in the fictional multiverse" is such a broad concept, and in part because they have the opportunity and potential to become a PPC enemy that isn't either a force derived from the PPC or some sort of dark inverse of PPC principles. They've got portals, yes, so they're still a little derivative, but how else are they going to pass from world to world? By being tossed?
...Actually... (scribbles frantically in a Word document)
The Eminence crew, on the other hand, I see as the pinnacle of generic advancements. "The PPC hunts Sues, so what if there were Sues that rescued other Sues from being hunted? And they could be a team, and be exiled from the world, because if they come back they'll be hunted down, but they'll also be super-mysterious and a huge enough threat to be able to bring down the best Agents all by themselves without the audience seeing, and it'll be so rad!" Yawn. What do they intend to do other than going around and being a mild nuisance? You say they "aren't Sues any more", but they seem to be just as small-minded and paint-by-numbers as any Sue might be. They're just not Sues in the same sense that the delicate and beautiful secret half-sister of Elrond who falls in love with Samwise and makes it rain in Mordor for the first time in centuries is. The three leaders we see have multiple personality traits, true, and their interactions with one another are far less annoying than those between a typical Sue and her disciples, but I don't see any distinction that makes them more important than some random aberration that managed to dodge the God-Mod Agents sent to get rid of her would be if said aberration had the resourcefulness to survive.
It might be a good concept, if it was explored and elaborated upon(What happens to the Sues they rescue? Are there other roving bands of independent Sues? What has been the Canon Protection Initiative's response to the independent Sues other than "omigosh omigosh it's her, we can't beat her on our own!"), and I'm not going to disparage the historical significance of Ashes to Glory, but I just don't think the Eminence crew's significance is so huge that it would make other groups look pointless by comparison. Again, though, just a difference of opinions. There's nothing wrong with either view.

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