Comments on: Acquired Taste

By: Centaur1971

Centaur1971 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:56:51 +0000

MOOOM these two are getting weird again…

By: Tygr

Tygr — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:28:30 +0000

Wait, wait, WAIT.

Y’ mean there’s more exposition in the BOOKS?!

OK, I been meaning to get the wife interested in Wapsi, and I think, now, that getting the ‘hard-copy’ version into her hands might be the best idea.

By: Virnin

Virnin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:27:17 +0000

My 2 pence… Tina’s loss of interest in collecting antique teapots makes Jin sad because it shows how far Tina has drifted from her human self. Plus a not so subtle remind of how much Jin herself may never regain.

By: Rowen Morland

Rowen Morland — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:53:40 +0000

Playing golf into the stargate is quite an enduring image. Seems that if we get some new Jinn stuff we might get a similar angle. I’d rather like that.

By: Fairportfan

Fairportfan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:31:51 +0000

I think it’s something that human-Tina did in another time loop when she and Jin were friends.

By: Zaren

Zaren — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:24:38 +0000

I’m waiting on my first order of Lapsang, after hearing about it from an Aussie author and podcaster. I’m about ankle deep in my exploration of tea, having branched out from the realm of mint herbals and roiboss and into blacks and Earl Greys. I’m wondering how much deeper this stuff is going to put me

By: Zmoore

Zmoore — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:19:37 +0000

You are correct: Lapsang Souchong is indeed from China. Fujian province, to be exact. You may have also heard of it (depending on how much you know about tea) as “Russian Caravan.” http://www.adagio.com/black/lapsang_souchong.html Info!

By: SoWhyMe

SoWhyMe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:39:35 +0000

The problem with messing with the timeline is that doing so makes us all someone’s puppets with no real self determination or free will. Then there is the distinct possibility that doing so will result in a world even worse than that which would have been. There may be minimal harm manipulating a few people as did Jin, but anything on a larger scale, like the villiage example, would likely cause vast unintended consequences. In the story line here, manipulating the few people Jin did was justified as she was actually trying to free them from the endless cycle in which everyone was trapped. As things stood, humanity wasn’t accomplishing anything or had any real free will anyway. Once the deed was done, she stopped her manipulation (we assume).

By: Eee

Eee — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:35:51 +0000

RE Redbeard’s comment that “May simply made a really large mistake”: If you think about it, May has made a series of mistakes, each worse than the last. She created the Calendar Machine, and then let it fall into the hands of the priests. To get the Machine back, she developed Golum technology and taught enough of it to the priests that they could figure out how to make the Chimera. And then, trying to destroy the Machine, she bungled it again and locked the world into endless time loops. I would HOPE she’s ended her streak, now; I’m not sure Jin (or the Earth) can take much more of this…

By: SoWhyMe

SoWhyMe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:18:22 +0000

I think we are at the 5 deep limit, so I’m responding to Redbeard from Paul’s post.

So with all that “intelligence” and power at her command that was the best she could do? She couldn’t figure out a way without killing several people on her way in? And doing such evil to stop greater evil is no excuse. Where does that stop? The end does not justify the means. Unless you’re a Nazi or Jihadist. One has to wonder how many others she had killed from time to time in persuit of her goal, or just for the hell of it, since it seemed to come so easily to her. She even seemed to enjoy it.