With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

I might well be failing to understand here, but I think that the current ‘I'd struggle to deny that this isn't better.’
translates into ‘I’d struggle to deny that this is worse.’
which means he’s currently saying that having hope isn’t superior, I think.

 

Hmm 780 words. Is this the shortest update Zoat has ever posted?

 

I wonder, will this much Hope in the Dream influence other stuff in any way ? Will big dude dream get around and ask them to gtfo from his front lawn ?

 

I concur with Duke Long, you got a triple negative thing going on with both struggle and deny and isn't.

 

If Paul is getting a video game or game series, then Alan deserves a theatrical production. Two, in fact! One for his life, and one for the message he is spreading today- the better world he is breathing life into.

Or at least an album. I get his radio work was closer to reporting than a radio music station, but who doesn’t love music?

 

No. Most of the posts from the first episode are shorter than that.

Shortest for a while, though.

Okay, yes, I think you're right. Corrected.

 

I like to think that Paul made sure that his video game team were appropriately protected when the anti-life went off, so we might finally get that payoff now that's its been about two years, which is when Zoat promised we'd get a resolution....

 

No.

He took no special action to protect them. There is no such thing as 'appropriately protected' from the Anti-Life. If by some miracle they kept working rather than doing the eminently sensible thing of running and hiding he'd be astonished.

 

So you lied to us about getting resolution about them?????

 

No, there will be a resolution. It just won't be 'they were fine, the game is great and game of the year'.

 

I hope they will try something like this again, just to see Mammon show them how short-sighted they are.

 

I don't think he'd have cared about what people were doing as long as they paid their taxes.

Now what is this about.

When he mentioned stupid things done by American Intelligence agents my mind jumped straight to a scenario that was straight out of Scooby Doo.

 

They tried to kill Fidel Castro like that.

 

Cat Spy Collars. The cats never picked up on anything because they all either ran away or got run over.

 

Ooh, that's a tricky thing to have to work out. It's not quite two women arguing over a child they both claim to have borne, but it's a lot more common. The described typical resolution might put some people's backs up, though.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

So, acting on the best information he could, he claimed and planted it.

Makes sense. Aurochs are just bigger cows, and driving them can be tricky. Imagine the mayhem if one took fright during the short hop and triggered a stampede...

So, he was hoping to use an inheritance to set his son up for a good life. Quite reasonable.

But there's still the matter of where that money will come from. I doubt the crop would be that profitable...

Well, it's better than they feared, and probably better than they hoped for too. And presumably, any future arguments over the land can be settled by letting Danval's second son take over.

Handy. Not only does he get a shot at getting a larger property on the frontier, it'll make sure he's not around to cause trouble for the other fellow.

Building up a decent canon of precedents and previous rulings, eh? Smart, especially if he's going to distribute it.

As long as they're not angry words, that's fine. After all, they have to sort out the deal.

Such is the tricky part of managing a bronze-age culture's legal system. Or at least a pre-industrial one.

Heh. A nice bit of fluff for a breather.

But with the younger generation likely to be literate and educated, there's going to be both a market and consumers for all forms of literature... Perhaps some imports from Earth might be in order.

Somehow, I don't think it's going to be what Mommy hopes she'll say...

And there's good reason for that fear, given that any other Goa'uld would probably have the girl killed for such 'blasphemy'...

Ooh, a slang term for goa'uld hosts? And not entirely inaccurate in Paulmon's case. It's just that his snake isn't meat, but light.

Likely because she's not aware that could be a bad thing to say to a supposed god.

Not doubt leaving the girl with a bit of cooing awe.

Someone needs to make sure what they're teaching is appropriate for their students...

Hopefully he didn't try too hard not to make her queasy.

And no doubt make for interesting reading for Bastet, whose spies will be wasting no time in passing on whatever he explains.

Heh. Most of whom probably won't care, because they've discovered that the opposite sex are a lot more interesting than they used to be...

There's been weirder things done by both Americans and other services...

Talk about putting your foot in your mouth...

Somehow, I foresee that being a very interesting lesson to hear, though we might well not see all of it. Ironic timing, given what just happened on the main plot, after all. Still, Paulmon is going to have to be very careful about how he puts whatever he's about to discuss, if only to avoid ruffling the feathers of certain people who will no doubt get to hear about it very swiftly.

 

... or at least the government hasn't admitted that the cats picked up anything. Of course, it's unlikely that they got much actionable intelligence, but they might have accidentally gotten blackmail on random people that the CIA hasn't told the public about. Other intelligence agencies have done stupid things (e.g. telling a compromised agent to send the all-clear code next time), but we don't hear about them as often.

 

We did a lot of silly/stupid things to try killing Castro.

 

i don't get what going, what did the Earth teacher do that got Paul to go get her ?

 

She's trying to sow doubt into the population starting with the youth in order to make it easier for Earth to eventually conquer the world, or at least make it easier for them to do whatever they want with the planet in the midst of the chaos it could start.

 

Only people who knows they are in the wrong fear the truth.

 

I wouldn't describe her actions as being that extreme, but yeah, it's the same general path, just a lighter shade.

And she may not have been trying to sow doubt that he's a god.

It is possible that the girl accidentally overheard her and she either didn't notice it or didn't think it was that important since she probably didn't think the girl was going to end up meeting Mammon.

 

This Paul is currently masquerading as a alien overlord from a race that pretends they are Gods to their subjects. The Goa'uld.

He made a deal with the people on earth for teachers. This teacher, either on purpose or accidentally, let slip in front of a kid that he's a snake like alien parasite or "snakehead".

He's not. He's only pretending to be. But it undermines his position since he is trying to fit in with the other alien overlords.

If he were a actual Goa'uld the teacher would be killed for the insult but he's being a bit more mellow about it.

 

We need more Paulmon interacting with small children, it's hilarious !

 

From the context, and I might have read it wrong, she was talking pejoratively about him; maybe on her own, maybe with her colleagues, maybe to the students, I don't know. But she did it where a student, and maybe more than just the little girl, could hear her.

Now, from what I recall, Paulmon understood that they would send spies among the teachers he requested, but talking disparagingly about him to impressionable ears seems a bit... undermining, to me.

Edit: Ninja'ed there.

 

How the hell are the americans even defining God? As their christians would? That'd be an extremely easy one to overturn. I always felt that Stargate fucked up there, but it's unsurprising given that even in supernatural shows with multiple pantheons they have the philosophy "All gods are real, but Christian god is most real."

 

ah okay, so her job is to teach but if she teaching bad or wrong thing for nefarious reason then Fake-God Paul will be having words

 

I realized after a second glance at your comment that Paulmon was just a mash-up of Paul and Mammon, but for a brief, glorious moment, I thought you were referring to the various Elsepauls as Paulmon. Gotta catch ‘em all!

 

I mean, I don't blame the show more than I blame US sensitivities back then. From what I recall, sometimes TV shows couldn't even mention the Christian god. I believe it's better now, with Christian mythology being more fair game for exploration and mockery; but religious groups still try to boycott shows that do so, I remember reading something to that effect about Good Omens for example.

 

Ah, yes: Thor, Prince of Thunder.