BluEnigma wrote:So true! Spare Desslok from all of that heartache!
Yeah really.
Agreed. I get that they're trying to appeal to 21st century males who watch the show but they crossed the line in several places.
There are better ways to appeal to an audience of
any era and gender.
It's odd. Because of the 70s styles, the alien males, especially the Gamilons, in the original series looked far more masculine, muscular and athletic than the males in the reboot. I always thought that was because they were this warrior race, so it made sense. Even the majority of Gamilas females in 2199 were styled better than their Terron counterparts. Then again, they have better class, apparently!

There's an intergalactic commentary in there somewhere!

Yeah, I noticed that too. ^_^
The story and mecha are amazing and enhanced the original. One of the many reasons why I'd like to see a S2 for Y2199 is to see how they conceptualize the Battle at Saturn. Given what they did with the mecha during the Rainbow Cluster battle...*whistles*.

I saved enough and ordered the Gamilas book. I was able to find a store state-side that had it in stock at an affordable price w/shipping. Hopefully I'll have it by the end of next week.
Ah yes, that would be an interesting one. I'd love to see them go for all three of the "Star Blazers" seasons (Y1,2, and 3) - including "Bolar Wars" - and see where they'd go with them.
And yes, the Rainbow Cluster incident was astral.
Wow, nice!
I wonder how Talan would feel if he were voted the new 'dessler'? Leader Dessler Talan? Or would they gradually grandfather the empire away from a dictatorship to something better? I remember Ghader Talan being thoroughly disgusted when he heard what Gimleh did to Alteria.
I'd vote for that. I think Talan would be a great choice for that position. He's got the strength of character to handle it well.
Oh I think Desslok does surpass Wildstar and your story highlights that brilliantly! He's at least one hundred-odd years older than Wildstar and you show us just how much was riding on the young Gamilon's shoulders. Tim does that too. I love the scene he penned in 'Rebirth' where Desslok tells Wildstar what he needs to hear and what he must do. Desslok says that, not as an arrogant leader, but as a friend with an immeasurable dearth of experience.

And there's more to come, as we're only one chapter away from half-time for TROK.
Indeed. I also appreciated Tim's rendering. Sometimes even the heroes (Wildstar) need to be hit on the head with reality, and in that case Desslok was the only one willing and able to do it.
Yes it does! She is jealousy incarnate. I'm quite sure Zordar was considering Desslok to be his son-in-law and Invidia wasn't having any of that!


I have a unique rendering of that little Zordar/Desslok/Invidia power-struggle for my AU.
That's good! Sometimes I'll write ideas or bits on Post-It notes and then put them into my writing NB. LOL! I understand. I think the muses are Gamilons in disguise.

Yeah, I always keep a notebook with me at work - for break times.

I've always written to my music - we've been working together for about thirteen years now, in fact.

Oh! And on an interesting note, I think I found the last voice actor for Desslok from "Bolar Wars"!
I was watching "Green Lantern: The Animated Series" with my fiancee a couple days ago. There was one character whose voice I had recognized when I first heard him talk, but I thought it was too good to be true. Then, we watched an episode towards the middle of the first season of GLTAS (the episode name was "Regime Change") and that particular character got a descent amount of voice-time and I'm about 99.9999999% sure that it's him. When you've been hearing a voice for a dozen years, it tends to stick out, even when another face is put to it.

The voice actor's name is Brian George:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_George