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terajkIn which I ask Princess Azula for help with nenena's birthday present, and she is correct and unhelpful. Of course.
Me: Dammit, I think this villain is unstoppable. Azula! You're good at finding people's weaknesses and exploiting them--how do you kill this person?
Azula: Fire, obviously. Fire at an earlier point in time would've made this entire story irrelevant. (And, wow, they have an amazingly stupid power.)
(Villain I made up: *something about the Book of Exodus which doesn't quite involve their amazingly stupid power but I follow their reasoning and if I have to draw parallells between them and Moses I am going to be pissed but I don't know how to threaten them as I'm already killing them off.*)
Me, with dawning horror: No one has fire.
Zuko: What? Wow, are you guys screwed.
Sokka: What if me and Teo built a time machine and sent Zuko, Aang and Iroh into the future?
Me: WHAT NO THEY DON'T EVEN GO HERE. See, fire is normally this genre's biggest cop-out power.
Villain I made up: I burned my sister alive.
Me: This. Genre's. Biggest. Cop-out power. Like in that movie where they killed the man-eating slugs by making the sewers explode instead of just pouring salt on them. Which, if done at an earlier point in time, would've made that entire movie irrelevant.
Azula: That movie is relevant?
Me: Look, it was a book first, okay? GODDAMMIT HOW DO I PLOT.
Teo: I'm sure this story isn't as stupid as a book about man-eating slugs.
Me: It was at least two books OH GOD I QUIT.
nenena's birthday present, and she is correct and unhelpful. Of course.Me: Dammit, I think this villain is unstoppable. Azula! You're good at finding people's weaknesses and exploiting them--how do you kill this person?
Azula: Fire, obviously. Fire at an earlier point in time would've made this entire story irrelevant. (And, wow, they have an amazingly stupid power.)
(Villain I made up: *something about the Book of Exodus which doesn't quite involve their amazingly stupid power but I follow their reasoning and if I have to draw parallells between them and Moses I am going to be pissed but I don't know how to threaten them as I'm already killing them off.*)
Me, with dawning horror: No one has fire.
Zuko: What? Wow, are you guys screwed.
Sokka: What if me and Teo built a time machine and sent Zuko, Aang and Iroh into the future?
Me: WHAT NO THEY DON'T EVEN GO HERE. See, fire is normally this genre's biggest cop-out power.
Villain I made up: I burned my sister alive.
Me: This. Genre's. Biggest. Cop-out power. Like in that movie where they killed the man-eating slugs by making the sewers explode instead of just pouring salt on them. Which, if done at an earlier point in time, would've made that entire movie irrelevant.
Azula: That movie is relevant?
Me: Look, it was a book first, okay? GODDAMMIT HOW DO I PLOT.
Teo: I'm sure this story isn't as stupid as a book about man-eating slugs.
Me: It was at least two books OH GOD I QUIT.
