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Though I imagine child protective service workers would study the heck out of all step-mothers. They have such a strong tendency to sadism and evil. Imagine being a single father looking for love. Ain't no one going to date you.
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Would the locals would be aware of the stories happening to them, and know how they play out? And the initial stories would still be known (i.e., Homer's Odyssey was still written on this world)? Or maybe the stories happen infrequently enough, and enough different stories, that the natives don't realize it. A given person could be the main character in only one story over his/her life, side character in only a few. Might also have some sort of 'cultural/psychic blinders' on about it. But it would be much more common for out-of-world visitors, basically required. |
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02-20-2017, 11:11 AM | #136 | |
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As Tarquin explains, the key takeaway from all the stories about the hero overthrowing the Evil Empire isn't that the Evil Empire always falls, but that it will be invincible before the hero shows up. Yeah the last few days may be unpleasant, but the Evil Emperor gets to live like a god for decades first....
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02-20-2017, 07:38 PM | #137 |
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...who's studying either software engineering or library science or public accounting.
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02-20-2017, 08:54 PM | #138 | |
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Might be redundant though. There's already been a Coen brothers movie that dipped into that kind of thing. |
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02-21-2017, 12:41 AM | #139 |
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My mom and I went into that movie not knowing it was The Odyssey. It was fun realizing it and then wondering who/what/how the cyclops was going to be.
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This world idea makes me think of the book Redshirts, where the rest of the crew of an Enterprise-like spaceship is aware that they're expendable, but not the main crew. |
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