Well, that just seemed unfair—like wishing for more wishes.
It is, isn't it? It just throws the whole thing out of whack! It's like life handing out $10,000 to each person and some get a real prize - they get a million! Lottery winners for sure, but then you find that occasionally, someone gets the ability to add to their own coffers an equal amount to the wealth of anyone they run into, without limit. So they meet you and instantly add $10k to their accounts. It doesn't take away from yours, but they're richer just from knowing you. Then they run into a few of those jackpot winner millionaires and suddenly they're richer than everyone else.
It's so freaking effortless, too. Sylar's original ability at least had a cost. When they took that away later with the empathy stuff it felt like such a rip-off to me. Sort of like how once Peter got control of his power, I felt it was too much. Made my head spin to even imagine. You have Jesus Christ and Luke Skywalker and Superman all rolled up in one there. Much as I hated him being depowered, it had to happen.
"Detective Beckett bears a striking resemblance to your old partner, Hana Gitelman,"
I'm very bad with faces, so I wonder if they have the same actress?
"He absorbed the Ghost's ability," Castle realized swiftly
And just imagine the repercussions to an already-damaged empath getting that ability! Even assuming the ability itself doesn't come with mental side effects, the damage to one's personal relationships must be HUGE. No wonder he destroyed his past identity!
a dark complected man I've never seen before. He was shaking your hand, though his expression was far from friendly. He is the man who holds all the strings,
For some reason I imagine the guy in charge of the Fringe group - the tall, grim, bald, black dude who was Olivia's boss. Broyles.
almost certain now that Esposito was the man Angela had seen.
Or maybe not Broyles. But that would be interesting - a threeway fandom crossover. I had some plans, three years ago, for crossing over Fringe with Heroes. Never went anywhere with them, though.
I love in your story how every chapter reveals fascinating new bits of mystery!
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Date: Saturday, 14 July 2012 02:27 pm (UTC)From:Well, that just seemed unfair—like wishing for more wishes.
It is, isn't it? It just throws the whole thing out of whack! It's like life handing out $10,000 to each person and some get a real prize - they get a million! Lottery winners for sure, but then you find that occasionally, someone gets the ability to add to their own coffers an equal amount to the wealth of anyone they run into, without limit. So they meet you and instantly add $10k to their accounts. It doesn't take away from yours, but they're richer just from knowing you. Then they run into a few of those jackpot winner millionaires and suddenly they're richer than everyone else.
It's so freaking effortless, too. Sylar's original ability at least had a cost. When they took that away later with the empathy stuff it felt like such a rip-off to me. Sort of like how once Peter got control of his power, I felt it was too much. Made my head spin to even imagine. You have Jesus Christ and Luke Skywalker and Superman all rolled up in one there. Much as I hated him being depowered, it had to happen.
"Detective Beckett bears a striking resemblance to your old partner, Hana Gitelman,"
I'm very bad with faces, so I wonder if they have the same actress?
"He absorbed the Ghost's ability," Castle realized swiftly
And just imagine the repercussions to an already-damaged empath getting that ability! Even assuming the ability itself doesn't come with mental side effects, the damage to one's personal relationships must be HUGE. No wonder he destroyed his past identity!
a dark complected man I've never seen before. He was shaking your hand, though his expression was far from friendly. He is the man who holds all the strings,
For some reason I imagine the guy in charge of the Fringe group - the tall, grim, bald, black dude who was Olivia's boss. Broyles.
almost certain now that Esposito was the man Angela had seen.
Or maybe not Broyles. But that would be interesting - a threeway fandom crossover. I had some plans, three years ago, for crossing over Fringe with Heroes. Never went anywhere with them, though.
I love in your story how every chapter reveals fascinating new bits of mystery!