stories:a_vexie-ing_acquaintance
Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Both sides previous revisionPrevious revisionNext revision | Previous revision | ||
stories:a_vexie-ing_acquaintance [2015/04/04 13:00] – [Easter Eggs] Petike | stories:a_vexie-ing_acquaintance [2020/02/10 01:14] (current) – Updating to new link format eofpi | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line 27: | Line 27: | ||
==== Continuity ==== | ==== Continuity ==== | ||
- | Space reserved | + | This episode introduces the crew of the second ship of the Twin Fleet, the MES-2 // |
+ | |||
+ | The episode is also the first to feature the MES-1 // | ||
+ | |||
+ | The New Zealand Civil War timeline is introduced in the first half of the two-parter and set up for a future revisit. Several New Zealand and Australian AH.commers appear in guest roles in this segment. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The [[stories: | ||
---- | ---- | ||
Line 33: | Line 39: | ||
==== Reception ==== | ==== Reception ==== | ||
- | Space reserved | + | Overall, the two-parter was well-received. Several readers were intrigued at the possible future story arcs set up by this episode. It was also pointed out that the second crew introduced in the story is sufficiently different enough from the first crew, making |
+ | |||
+ | There were some minor criticisms of the resolution to Part II being less action-packed than expected. | ||
---- | ---- | ||
Line 40: | Line 48: | ||
The first two-parter of the show and Petike' | The first two-parter of the show and Petike' | ||
+ | |||
+ | This episode was long in the making, though most of the writing was done between early January and late March 2015. By far the oldest bits of the episode are the teaser (in Part 1) and TDM's and MARC PASQUIN' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The episode was not originally planned as a two-parter, but the expansion of the New Zealand bit of the storyline eventually necessitated the split and the (somewhat) cliffhanger scene at the end of Part 1. In the very first draft of the story, the New Zealand timeline was at most just mentioned, but its version of Earth was not really visited. The addition of the visit in Part 1 of the finished version was done to avoid making the episode overly "outer space-centric" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Even in the very beginning, the plan for the episode was to introduce the crew members of the MES-2 // | ||
---- | ---- | ||
Line 45: | Line 59: | ||
==== Easter Eggs ==== | ==== Easter Eggs ==== | ||
- | In addition to AH.com culture and running gags, the two-part story contains quite a large number of popcultural references, especially ones related to the newly introduced faction. Some of the works alluded to in a tongue-in-cheek way include //Dune//, // | + | In addition to [[offtopic:AH.com culture]] and [[offtopic: |
- | A full list of references is [[http:// | + | A full list of references is [[https:// |
---- | ---- | ||
Line 54: | Line 68: | ||
**[[stories: | **[[stories: | ||
- | **[[stories: | + | **[[stories: |
**[[stories: | **[[stories: | ||
Line 61: | Line 75: | ||
**[[stories: | **[[stories: | ||
+ |
stories/a_vexie-ing_acquaintance.1428166855.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/03/29 15:19 (external edit)