Today in my personal universe the doctors discovered that my father has not cancer but just a heart disorder, and at the same time in our shared universe everyone is friendly again.
Plus, yesterday rained as hell, while today the sun shines.
...what a wonderful world..
Hi guys, and especially The Doctor.
I am very pleased that talking it came out that more or less we have the same vision about the HR Universe.
The big problem, I think, is that we'll never have time to dig every detail. For example, when you say that Dirk Bell was easily accepted, I can agree. But it was shown when he and Grimm were formally "hired", or associated, to the team. I suppose shortly thereafter (which could means after the end of the hurricane story, because since Grimm's arrival only three days, I believe, passed before the end of the last storyline) they both could have been given false identites and other stuff I now I can't come up with, by a routine started by Velo or/and Ljzavet and continued even after they departed.
After the hurricane there have been an undetermined amount of time (which vary from the "months" referred by Grimm and the weeks that were not enough to hail Danny's ribs), where I believe paper works, even in the problematic days of the reconstructions, had to be made.
But if is important to show the admission of a member in the team, we could create a sort of admission test, and do it in the stories, at the end of the issue where the character first appear.
Obviously, that means we can't, like we did until yesterday, to any newbye that want to join, "read the previous post and write yourself in". To create a more credible universe, everyone which want to join should read all the previous issue. That's something that cannot be proposed, obviously.
As for the "new" characters, I really love everyone. I preferred the first Phil, the shy one, but I am adapting to the new one. Grissom is great, and Grimm is "real" if you understand what I mean. Dirk is still not enough "alive" for me, still too much a stereotype, but I had not the time, yet, to read his solo story, a thing that I will rectify as soon as I will have the time and I am sure I will grasp him better. For Tayden I have a soft spot (Euro, in the old Universe, was a fallen angel, just before the final story), and Blackwulf, aside my difficult for reading his posts, was cool. Priest I had not read enough from Gooz to really understand him, and his admission in the MBL is still the single thing that most bug me in all the HR timeline/universe.
Ameristar is a bit too powerful for my taste (I like Mxy because for how much he is powerful, he is also unpredictable). Lot of powers without serious drawback don't appeal to me. But I played with her in the solo story of the return of Euro, and I love her personality.
Lastly Turkish. I hate Turkish. He is too damn powerful. I see him as a cross between Doctor Fate and the Kway Chen Kane (sp) from the original Kung Fu serial. He talks to nature and change the course of hurricanes, makes the sun drops below the horizon at will (I'm making this up, I know). Aurochs sent toward him the ugliest denizens of Hell, and he dissipated them like a breeezes. There's no way to stop him (well, there are millions way, but only in Pro's mind, nothing of what I can think would succeded in bring him down).
Have you read the above? It's all bullshit. The truth is that I hate Turkish because it "killed" the single character I really loved from the old Universe, the human Prometheus, the god who refuse godhood to be among the humans that he loved so much.
Mithology at its essence. The best well rounded character ever to appear in the MBL/TOMB era.
When he didn't return, revamped or altered or the same, in the HR universe, I felt like I lost a friend.
