On one hand I understand the importance of clear representation.
On the other hand, in fantasy, alternate history, and futuristic settings I’d like to see mixes of physical features that are uncommon in real life to show difference in gene flow and hint at past immigration trends.
I’m probably phrasing poorly, but I’m guessing I’m trying to say more people who look more what we’d assume they are mixed race if they dropped into Earth suddenly?
Note: Of course care must be taken to avoid leaning to much on “conventiona white standard of beauty” too frequently.
The Earth is far more alive than previously thought, according to “deep life” studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of all the world’s oceans.
Despite extreme heat, no light, minuscule nutrition and intense pressure, scientists estimate this subterranean biosphere is teeming with between 15bn and 23bn tonnes of micro-organisms, hundreds of times the combined weight of every human on the planet.
Researchers at the Deep Carbon Observatory say the diversity of underworld species bears comparison to the Amazon or the Galápagos Islands, but unlike those places the environment is still largely pristine because people have yet to probe most of the subsurface.
“It’s like finding a whole new reservoir of life on Earth,” said Karen Lloyd, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. “We are discovering new types of life all the time. So much of life is within the Earth rather than on top of it.”
On one hand I understand the importance of clear representation.
On the other hand, in fantasy, alternate history, and futuristic settings I’d like to see mixes of physical features that are uncommon in real life to show difference in gene flow and hint at past immigration trends.
I’m probably phrasing poorly, but I’m guessing I’m trying to say more people who look more what we’d assume they are mixed race if they dropped into Earth suddenly?
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Note: Of course care must be taken to avoid leaning to much on “conventiona white standard of beauty” too frequently.
For reasons not entirely understood, mice brought to Marion Island
by sealers 200 years ago have begun feeding on birds at night. With no
instinctual fear of this new danger, a bird will sit passively while
mice nibble into its flesh, until it succumbs days later.
Yes. That was one of my biggest disappointments with this story arc, aside from the whole “it’s just Heroes again” stuff.
I would have much preferred it if he slowly but surely regained his memories as Eggman, and thus “Mr. Tinker” gradually became more and more… off. Would have made things tense and creepy.
As it is, the Mr. Tinker sub-plot ends up being something of an anticlimax, because there was no greater plot in the making at all. There was no secret trump card while Metal was doing his elf shoe routine. All that happened was “Eggman isn’t Eggman, but now he is thanks to another guy”. It didn’t really add much in the end.
This is a very good point, I’ll admit. Part of me also thought he was faking his amnesia as a clever use of his trademark craftiness/cunning as well. Not to mention it would’ve been a cool utilization his otherwise ‘harmless’ appearance to make everyone else obliviously unaware of him bidding his time to make his eventual return.
However, having it not be a facade may not entirely be a bad alternative. At least for me. Establishing him as a innocent neighbor and ‘nice uncle’ figure to the children of the village does give his ‘return’ a touch of tragedy when you take into account that in the last few seconds he spent as Mr. Tinker, was scared out of his wits and unwillingly forced back into his old self. He literally says he doesn’t want to be Eggman again, only for Dr. Starline to retort in a rather chilling way “And he certainly wouldn’t want to be you.”
it just kind of feels like even now Eggman is back, it’s coming at the cost of an otherwise innocent and kind person essentially being erased so he can exist again, much to the eventual sorrow of the people he had made happy and for Sonic maybe being the one to tell them the bad news that he couldn’t save him.
While I do see where you’re coming from, and I hope they can at least salvage the sub-plot by putting focus on the villagers’ reactions, I also think it would have been even more tragic if the Mr. Tinker personality gradually got phased out as Eggman resurfaced, and he had to slowly witness himself doing more and more evil things, no matter how hard he tried to fight back.
The situation proper just felt rushed and unsatisfying by comparison. It’s almost like in the middle of all the Heroes 2.0 stuff, they suddenly remembered “Oh yeah, Mr. Tinker still exists, doesn’t he?”
Monsters and Stuff 