January 7 (5M^_^: Seven of Seven)

[Zeke]

Time for another reply roundup. First of all: evay! Always good to see you. Stick around -- if you were pleased about VOY content, wait'll you see the next update.

Originally Posted by MaverickZer0

^^Everyone always means their own Doctor.

Well put.

Guesses? Death Note fits the pattern. So does Excel Saga, but it's already crack. Not sure if you've seen Elfen Lied. Lucky Star, same as Excel Saga.

Death Note is easier to make fun of, but Elfen Lied seems more your thing...still gonna have to say the first.

Haven't seen Elfen Lied. (Been meaning to; my brother liked it.) I love Excel Saga, and I was a Death Note fan before it was cool, courtesy of Tarn-Vedra. I don't like the trend Lucky Star represents, but it had enough charm that I watched the whole thing anyway. However, none of these are correct!

Originally Posted by Sa'ar

(Not really following, since I don't buy comics, but I got the introductory issue on Free Comics Day and I've been reading up on the background on the DC wiki. I thought Indigo was going to be Altruism to balance Avarice until I saw they'd written Compassion in very tiny, very missable font. All the colours either side of Green seem to be opposites, or opposites once removed (Love and Anger (nearly hate), Fear and Hope, Compassion and Avarice (nearly Selflessness and Selfishness)).

Actually, if you know that much, you're following it more than I am. I've been kind of underwhelmed with Green Lantern events ever since Hal Jordan came back. But I seem to be alone on that -- everyone else thought Sinestro Corps was the bee's knees, and now all of comics fandom is hopping about Blackest Night. Go figure.

The transporter magically fixes everything at the end of the episode, especially if it caused the problem in the first place. Unless you're implying Banana Whatsername isn't up to the same standard as Scotty or Geordi or O'Brien?

Well, this is more of a medical problem, so it's in Doc's wheelhouse. And he's the one who took months to separate Tuvix, so draw your own conclusions about his expertise. My point is just that made-up technology is very convenient from a writing standpoint -- if I want something to be really difficult, it can be, even if it's superficially similar to more easily-solved problems. (There are analogs in math. Solve a quadratic equation by algebra? Easy. Cubic or quartic equation? Much harder than you'd expect. Quintic equation? Provably impossible.)

Originally Posted by Wowbagger

I'm hoping for Death Note or Azumanga Daioh, on the grounds that those are the only two animes I've actually ever seen.

All right, another Azu fan! I've actually been making references to that anime from the start. Sata andagi is mentioned more than once, and the repeating background image is the face of Chiyo-chichi. (Speaking of whom, note Ando's introduction in How to Debate an Exploding Candidate.)

Azu wouldn't be good fiver material, but it's perfect for short comedy pieces. I love DB Sommer's vignettes, for instance. My own contribution to the Azusphere, Elegy For Chiyo-sensei, was written in a very special way -- see if you can figure it out. I'll probably stick it in Features at some point.