Re: ANOTHER BUNCH OF SPOILERS!!! (PRE-WESTERLAND)
Sherlyn Lim (sherlynl@hotmail.com)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:12:25 PDT
>From: Walter Amos
>Reply-To: logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>To: logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>Subject: Re: ANOTHER BUNCH OF SPOILERS!!! (PRE-WESTERLAND)
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:37:51 -0500 (CDT)
>
Oh, it's that greater good thing...
>2) He hates the stupidity and pettiness of many Noble military
>commanders such as Admiral Hans Dietrich von Seeckt, his immediate
>commander before Reinhard "purchased" him, who basically handed
>Iserlohn to the Alliance through his stupidity and ignorance of
>Oberstein's sound advice.
Isn't that the way most of Reinhard's followers feel? Like Mittermyer and
Reuental. Hmm, come to think of it, it was practically a criteria for
joining Reinhard's command.
-- that, and the fact that it helps if they're all young and relatively
droolsome. I seem to remember that it was a deliberate choice on Reinhard's
part.(the relative youth and not the beauty part, although...)
Heh, has anyone notice that in the manga, you could pretty well tell whether
a character is "good" or "bad" by the way he looks? The nobles, for
instance, look positively dissipated. Must be all that carousing. :)
>3) He knows that, given their druthers, and without Reinhard's
>influence, the Nobles would probably have had him tried for desertion
>for having the temerity to escape with his life when he saw Seeckt >was
>flying headlong into destruction.
Given the "Inferior Genes Exclusion Law" and the bunch of snobs called the
nobles, there seems to be a pretty big similarity between the Empire and
Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar.(excellent author that) "The Vor is a system
based on nepotism" or words to that effect...
Even the post about the nukes and the thirteen day war. Hmm, it's not that
far a stretch for the imagination to postulate that the reason for the IGEL
law was partly because of the mutations caused by the radiation.
All of a sudden, I have a mental image of people abandoning earth after the
thirteen day war and taking to the stars.
Sherlyn
(don't you just _love_ it when you find points of similarities between
things you like and thought had no real connections?)
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