Well.... Shit. Since between reading the chapter and typing this I fed cats and medicated Ghost - which I bring up because the 15 minutes or so taken let me mull things over, and has changed my commentary! Initially there were thoughts about poor Sarah and ratcheting up tension with a small, personal moment - and that does work well, but, with reflection I'm sad to say Mid-Earth is getting off easy because it doesn't have the potential extinction event of a compromised fucking SPACE ELEVATOR! Which means despite my enjoyment of the Mid-Earth characters we've spent our time with I'm now distracted by wonder/worrying about Max-Earth. Which may have been your intention. Minor note - I don't know if it's a change to the Substack mobile browser interface or a side effect of installing the chat app, but I can no longer insert paragraph breaks into this comment field, so apologies if you get stuck with run-on paragraphs. It's not me, man!
DRAMATIC TENSION! Glad to hear that's working, then. :)
I think this might be the first storyline that's explicitly been running across multiple dimensions (other than when Kaminski had his little journey inside the container). It's quite a handy shortcut for ramping up the scale and stakes.
Here's an interesting thought: if there was a catastrophic event on Max-Earth such as a falling space elevator, how would that affect the portals? Would a shockwave and debris etc come flying through the portal like a cannon firing, and obliterate a 50km straight line across London and southern England?
I guess we'll find out! Well, we might find out. ;)
(and, yes, I've noticed that paragraph breaks don't seem to be working in the mobile app at the moment)
Every portal tear to Max Earth will become readily apparent as jets of material come spewing out of inch-to-foot-wide jets.
I don't think you'll bring your space elevator DOWN. Such an event would ruin a perfectly good alliterative title. Effectively you'd have a bi-verse. But I also recall you're a JMS fan and he's also known to twist up a base premise for a story (as an unmade example he's stated "Crusade" would have found the cure for the Drakh Plague halfway through season 2, then become a different show...), so, maybe you'll do it. I guess the Megaships would be around...
It does hint that the movers of the conspiracy are Palinor or Mid-Earth based. I doubt a Max-Earth malcontent would destroy their own world.
Well.... Shit. Since between reading the chapter and typing this I fed cats and medicated Ghost - which I bring up because the 15 minutes or so taken let me mull things over, and has changed my commentary! Initially there were thoughts about poor Sarah and ratcheting up tension with a small, personal moment - and that does work well, but, with reflection I'm sad to say Mid-Earth is getting off easy because it doesn't have the potential extinction event of a compromised fucking SPACE ELEVATOR! Which means despite my enjoyment of the Mid-Earth characters we've spent our time with I'm now distracted by wonder/worrying about Max-Earth. Which may have been your intention. Minor note - I don't know if it's a change to the Substack mobile browser interface or a side effect of installing the chat app, but I can no longer insert paragraph breaks into this comment field, so apologies if you get stuck with run-on paragraphs. It's not me, man!
DRAMATIC TENSION! Glad to hear that's working, then. :)
I think this might be the first storyline that's explicitly been running across multiple dimensions (other than when Kaminski had his little journey inside the container). It's quite a handy shortcut for ramping up the scale and stakes.
Here's an interesting thought: if there was a catastrophic event on Max-Earth such as a falling space elevator, how would that affect the portals? Would a shockwave and debris etc come flying through the portal like a cannon firing, and obliterate a 50km straight line across London and southern England?
I guess we'll find out! Well, we might find out. ;)
(and, yes, I've noticed that paragraph breaks don't seem to be working in the mobile app at the moment)
Every portal tear to Max Earth will become readily apparent as jets of material come spewing out of inch-to-foot-wide jets.
I don't think you'll bring your space elevator DOWN. Such an event would ruin a perfectly good alliterative title. Effectively you'd have a bi-verse. But I also recall you're a JMS fan and he's also known to twist up a base premise for a story (as an unmade example he's stated "Crusade" would have found the cure for the Drakh Plague halfway through season 2, then become a different show...), so, maybe you'll do it. I guess the Megaships would be around...
It does hint that the movers of the conspiracy are Palinor or Mid-Earth based. I doubt a Max-Earth malcontent would destroy their own world.
Yiiiikes. Echoes of 9/11, at least for me, especially when Holland realizes it's a pattern and a bomb, not a gas leak. Oh, man. Not good.