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akinoameWalk This Way (Andy Guerdat and Steve Sullivan): Right off the bat, we meet Drake, another member of the Rebellion, voiced by Michael Bell. I only mention him because he’ll appear a lot comes season 2. Here, he’s only notable for his entire regiment becoming Trance Marchers when hit by the Horn of Hypnos. Also, there’s a plot about Phobos building a drill that can pierce the…well, the earth, searching for secret tunnels, that Caleb and Drake fear will reveal the Infinite City. But it goes NOWHERE.
Without any mention of Elyon, this really feels like a filler episode, but it furthers the Will/Matt ship and the Horn of Hypnos appears in season two, so here goes: The Horn of Hypnos is a strange weapon that, when played, will put anyone who it was directly pointed it under the control of the player. As the Mage (or the “Ancient One”—seriously, did they have no clue what to call her in season 1?) explains, it can only be countered (which apparently means “crumbled into dust”) by a particular melody. Which Caleb and Blunk fail to remember for a while, while Greg Cipes succeeds in acting like he’s not a professional singer. Cedric does a terrible job of keeping it secure (this is a THING with Phobos’s side), and it winds up in Blunk’s hands. And then in the dumpster. And then in Hay Lin’s hands (and dear god, she actually PLAYS IT when she just pulled it out of the dumpster EW!) and from there, into Knickerbocker’s hands and then Martin’s. So there are Trance Marchers all throughout the city until Caleb can save the day.
Yeah, it’s a Caleb episode more than anything. I mean, when you hijack an electric guitar, stand on the roof in front of the setting sun and—with NO knowledge of how to use an electric guitar because you’re from a medieval society, mind you—play the tune that stops all the brainwashed zombies? You’re the hero.
The subplot is the school dance being held that night, with Will crushing on Matt. His band (later named Wreck 55) is playing, and in the middle of her klutzing out in front of him, he asks her out. So, score one for Matt. Minor character, and he’s not completely oblivious. I was losing hope for this town. There’s really nothing to say about him right now, since he’s only the Shallow Love Interest so far—though he will get better with time and Weisman—but there you go. Nigel, his bassist (who asked out Taranee), even calls Will his girlfriend, and Matt doesn’t contradict him. Have fun going through relationship issues a few episodes from now!
The Underwater Mines (Bob Dolan Smith): The story begins with Aketon (voiced by Paul Eiding doing his Grandpa Max voice), Aldarn’s father, a smith ordered to make the crown for Elyon’s coronation. The deal is that he does this, he gets to go back to his forge. Only Phobos decides to add a bonus level: repair everything in the dreaded underwater mines. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! But while there, he nearly gets killed and is rescued by a mysterious prisoner (who doesn’t speak yet, but is voiced by Loren Lester. Yes, Nightwing saves Grandpa Max. Most awesome crossover EVER). Aketon recognizes Mysterious Shirtless Guy Who Looks Oddly Like A Really Built Jesus and sabotages some equipment so he can temporarily return to his forge to fix it. He meets a worried Aldarn and quietly tells him to find Caleb and let him know an impossible truth: his father is alive.
They never reveal Caleb’s Daddy’s name in this episode, but for the record (and to avoid calling him Mysterious Shirtless Guy Who Looks Oddly Like A Really Built Jesus Who Is Also Caleb’s Daddy), his name is Julian.
And this turns into some awesome development for Caleb for the episode. The young, sixteen-year-old Rebel Leader was under the impression that his father was killed a year ago in the Battle of Greywoods. And thus, going by the assumption that a year has passed since the first episode, based on the seasons, then “It Begins” would have happened soon after that fateful battle. So it really goes a long way toward explaining Caleb’s personality. He was a kid whose dad was just “killed,” and suddenly, he had to step up. He had to lead the Rebellion. He had to be a man. And he had no fucking clue what he was doing and overcompensated so much while still being incredibly immature.
Unfortunately for the Aketon and Julian families (why does nobody on Meridian have last names? I mean, come on. Adopt names that describe your trade, like “Smith” for Aketon and…”Shirtless Jesus” for Julian), their meeting was observed by a Passling spy named Jeek (also voiced by Paul Eiding), who ratted them out to Phobos. Who had NO CLUE that the father of the Rebel Leader was not only alive, but in one of his slave camps.
…Okay, time to break open the Evil Overlord List.
11. I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
13. All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.
36. I will not imprison members of the same party in the same cell block, let alone the same cell. If they are important prisoners, I will keep the only key to the cell door on my person instead of handing out copies to every bottom-rung guard in the prison.
38. If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age.
And that’s just this particular instance. Let’s not get on his violation of #74 (When I create a multimedia presentation of my plan designed so that my five-year-old advisor can easily understand the details, I will not label the disk "Project Overlord" and leave it lying on top of my desk). Listing all of the rules Phobos and his flunkies have violated would take up a movie-length review. And would probably be every item that does not involve sci-fi. Seriously, do NOT turn this into a drinking game. Your liver will commit suicide before you get to 25. And don’t try it with water unless you have a very forgiving toilet you’re at right now.
How? How was this guy not assassinated ages ago? For all his power, Phobos has TERRIBLE control over his realm.
All right, where was I? Right. So even though Will reminds Caleb that realistically, there’s no guarantee that they can rescue his father, he’s still determined to try. Phobos has lain a trap, having Elyon open a portal (because she NOW can do that—I think they plotted episodes out of order) to the mine. It’s revealed that Cornelia can’t swim and that Irma and Hay Lin can make bubbles for them to travel in. Like Glinda. There’s this really cute bit where Caleb starts bragging again, but this time about the fun times he had with his dad. I like that reminder that he’s still a teenager. Cedric attempts to lay a trap, but Hay Lin overhears his soldiers and they manage to avoid it. They manage to disguise themselves as prisoners and manage to find Julian, who tries to tell Caleb that he shouldn’t have come. Caleb’s recognized by the guards, but he and his dad kick ass and are soon joined by the Guardians in an escape. Cedric floods the tunnels to try to kill all of them, but they escape, rescuing a handful of prisoners and guards.
And this is a good moment too. Now, ignoring the fridge logic that there had to have been MANY more guards and prisoners they couldn’t save, they hole up in an airtight guard station so Cornelia can get them through to the surface. The prisoners freeze when they hear the scared guards trying to get inside, but Hay Lin insists that the guards are people too, and Irma holds back the water as they let them inside. Julian orders them to toss their weapons outside, and they oblige, rescued when Taranee seals the door and they float up to the surface. I love seeing that there was this genuine moment of humanity in W.I.T.C.H., where they refused to let the bad guys die, where they proved they were better than the enemy.
The Seal of Phobos (Andy Guerdat and Steve Sullivan): Really disturbing little tidbit. The beginning of this episode all but says the Whisperers are captured enemies of Phobos’s, whom he has transfigured into roses. These roses are enchanted to become the ultimate tattlers. This is very heavily implied when the Whisperers recommend that a “captured” Vathek be turned into a black rose and then insist, “Join us!” This is also revealed to be the end result of Phobos’s plans for Elyon.
We never see the Whisperers again. Nor do we hear of anyone being rescued from this fate. So there are hundreds, possibly more, people who are forever stuck as rose demons who I assume are all hit with weed killer. Depressing as hell.
This is another one that feels like it was plotted as two episodes, then smushed together for time. The first part has Elyon asking Mrs. Rudolph, the math teacher, to pass along a message to the Guardians. It turns out that Mrs. Rudolph is a disguised monster and she’d been the nanny who stole Elyon away as a baby, using the Seal of Phobos to spirit her away to Earth. Somehow or another, Elyon figured this out—because you’d think that if Phobos knew who it was, he would have SENT SOMEBODY there years ago to get the info out of her. But again, expecting anything smart out of Phobos. Mrs. Rudolph also says that there were many people involved in Elyon’s rescue, and we’ll find out who the mastermind was in season 2. Elyon appears via astral projection and tells the girls to stop looking for her, all because she’s afraid that Phobos is going to use lethal force against them now. Funny, last batch of episodes, she seemed fine with possibly executing them and threatening them with possessed animals and a possessed old man. Disheartened, the girls wonder if Elyon really is okay and if maybe they’ve been wrong about Phobos this entire time. Yeah, I’m sure that the oppressed populace, the slave camps, and the torture they witnessed was all the work of a benevolent ruler. Yan Lin decides that since Elyon doesn’t want to be rescued, then there’s really nothing the girls can do, so they should just retire.
You are a terrible mentor, old lady. I mean, you are Ophanimon-level bad, and she knew the entire time that Kouji had a long-lost twin brother who was being manipulated by the enemy, and she never said a damn thing that wasn’t vague or mysterious. Have you ever heard of something called Stockholm Syndrome, Yan Lin? Sometimes, kidnapping victims bond with their captors and refuse to leave because of a psychological defense mechanism to try to deal with the horrible circumstance. Sure, that does not describe Elyon, since she has no clue that she’s even in any danger, but going by Yan Lin’s logic, anyone who had Stockholm Syndrome might as well just be left with their captors too.
The next part of the story focuses on Blunk just happening to find the Seal of Phobos in the same sewer where it was lost about thirteen years ago. Oy. So he manages to escape a bunch of “sewer troopers” (read: rats) and make it to Earth, creating portals every time he moves. The girls are participating in an extreme inline skating competition (Cornelia participating because she gets to wear spandex—insert RPM joke here), and when Uriah trips Irma, she manages to discover all the portals. Meanwhile, Caleb is running for his life from Cedric and failing to get through any of the portals because Will is closing them. He’s captured and taken to the rock quarry in Hu Gong Gorge while the Guardians track Blunk down and realize he has the Seal. For SOME reason, there’s a fight with the Seal—you’d think that if the thing was booby-trapped, it’d have gone off around the time when Elyon was being transported—and Will is knocked out. When she comes to, she sees the Heart absorb the Seal. They make it back to the Silver Dragon, and the Heart decides to somehow display an image of Caleb trapped in the Gorge, and then the Heart opens a portal so they can go rescue him. They get there, he’s kicking ass anyway, and he’s shocked to see that they can open portals on their own now. But he loves an unfair fight, so he kisses Cornelia on the cheek before jumping on some guy.
…Nope. I’m not going to explain the context. Have fun.
After they win and bring a shirtless Caleb home to the Silver Dragon, they use the Heart to open the Book of Secrets, where they learn that in five days’ time, Elyon’s powers will be at their peak, and Phobos will hold the coronation so he can steal her powers and leave her body trapped as a black rose.
Without any mention of Elyon, this really feels like a filler episode, but it furthers the Will/Matt ship and the Horn of Hypnos appears in season two, so here goes: The Horn of Hypnos is a strange weapon that, when played, will put anyone who it was directly pointed it under the control of the player. As the Mage (or the “Ancient One”—seriously, did they have no clue what to call her in season 1?) explains, it can only be countered (which apparently means “crumbled into dust”) by a particular melody. Which Caleb and Blunk fail to remember for a while, while Greg Cipes succeeds in acting like he’s not a professional singer. Cedric does a terrible job of keeping it secure (this is a THING with Phobos’s side), and it winds up in Blunk’s hands. And then in the dumpster. And then in Hay Lin’s hands (and dear god, she actually PLAYS IT when she just pulled it out of the dumpster EW!) and from there, into Knickerbocker’s hands and then Martin’s. So there are Trance Marchers all throughout the city until Caleb can save the day.
Yeah, it’s a Caleb episode more than anything. I mean, when you hijack an electric guitar, stand on the roof in front of the setting sun and—with NO knowledge of how to use an electric guitar because you’re from a medieval society, mind you—play the tune that stops all the brainwashed zombies? You’re the hero.
The subplot is the school dance being held that night, with Will crushing on Matt. His band (later named Wreck 55) is playing, and in the middle of her klutzing out in front of him, he asks her out. So, score one for Matt. Minor character, and he’s not completely oblivious. I was losing hope for this town. There’s really nothing to say about him right now, since he’s only the Shallow Love Interest so far—though he will get better with time and Weisman—but there you go. Nigel, his bassist (who asked out Taranee), even calls Will his girlfriend, and Matt doesn’t contradict him. Have fun going through relationship issues a few episodes from now!
The Underwater Mines (Bob Dolan Smith): The story begins with Aketon (voiced by Paul Eiding doing his Grandpa Max voice), Aldarn’s father, a smith ordered to make the crown for Elyon’s coronation. The deal is that he does this, he gets to go back to his forge. Only Phobos decides to add a bonus level: repair everything in the dreaded underwater mines. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! But while there, he nearly gets killed and is rescued by a mysterious prisoner (who doesn’t speak yet, but is voiced by Loren Lester. Yes, Nightwing saves Grandpa Max. Most awesome crossover EVER). Aketon recognizes Mysterious Shirtless Guy Who Looks Oddly Like A Really Built Jesus and sabotages some equipment so he can temporarily return to his forge to fix it. He meets a worried Aldarn and quietly tells him to find Caleb and let him know an impossible truth: his father is alive.
They never reveal Caleb’s Daddy’s name in this episode, but for the record (and to avoid calling him Mysterious Shirtless Guy Who Looks Oddly Like A Really Built Jesus Who Is Also Caleb’s Daddy), his name is Julian.
And this turns into some awesome development for Caleb for the episode. The young, sixteen-year-old Rebel Leader was under the impression that his father was killed a year ago in the Battle of Greywoods. And thus, going by the assumption that a year has passed since the first episode, based on the seasons, then “It Begins” would have happened soon after that fateful battle. So it really goes a long way toward explaining Caleb’s personality. He was a kid whose dad was just “killed,” and suddenly, he had to step up. He had to lead the Rebellion. He had to be a man. And he had no fucking clue what he was doing and overcompensated so much while still being incredibly immature.
Unfortunately for the Aketon and Julian families (why does nobody on Meridian have last names? I mean, come on. Adopt names that describe your trade, like “Smith” for Aketon and…”Shirtless Jesus” for Julian), their meeting was observed by a Passling spy named Jeek (also voiced by Paul Eiding), who ratted them out to Phobos. Who had NO CLUE that the father of the Rebel Leader was not only alive, but in one of his slave camps.
…Okay, time to break open the Evil Overlord List.
11. I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
13. All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.
36. I will not imprison members of the same party in the same cell block, let alone the same cell. If they are important prisoners, I will keep the only key to the cell door on my person instead of handing out copies to every bottom-rung guard in the prison.
38. If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age.
And that’s just this particular instance. Let’s not get on his violation of #74 (When I create a multimedia presentation of my plan designed so that my five-year-old advisor can easily understand the details, I will not label the disk "Project Overlord" and leave it lying on top of my desk). Listing all of the rules Phobos and his flunkies have violated would take up a movie-length review. And would probably be every item that does not involve sci-fi. Seriously, do NOT turn this into a drinking game. Your liver will commit suicide before you get to 25. And don’t try it with water unless you have a very forgiving toilet you’re at right now.
How? How was this guy not assassinated ages ago? For all his power, Phobos has TERRIBLE control over his realm.
All right, where was I? Right. So even though Will reminds Caleb that realistically, there’s no guarantee that they can rescue his father, he’s still determined to try. Phobos has lain a trap, having Elyon open a portal (because she NOW can do that—I think they plotted episodes out of order) to the mine. It’s revealed that Cornelia can’t swim and that Irma and Hay Lin can make bubbles for them to travel in. Like Glinda. There’s this really cute bit where Caleb starts bragging again, but this time about the fun times he had with his dad. I like that reminder that he’s still a teenager. Cedric attempts to lay a trap, but Hay Lin overhears his soldiers and they manage to avoid it. They manage to disguise themselves as prisoners and manage to find Julian, who tries to tell Caleb that he shouldn’t have come. Caleb’s recognized by the guards, but he and his dad kick ass and are soon joined by the Guardians in an escape. Cedric floods the tunnels to try to kill all of them, but they escape, rescuing a handful of prisoners and guards.
And this is a good moment too. Now, ignoring the fridge logic that there had to have been MANY more guards and prisoners they couldn’t save, they hole up in an airtight guard station so Cornelia can get them through to the surface. The prisoners freeze when they hear the scared guards trying to get inside, but Hay Lin insists that the guards are people too, and Irma holds back the water as they let them inside. Julian orders them to toss their weapons outside, and they oblige, rescued when Taranee seals the door and they float up to the surface. I love seeing that there was this genuine moment of humanity in W.I.T.C.H., where they refused to let the bad guys die, where they proved they were better than the enemy.
The Seal of Phobos (Andy Guerdat and Steve Sullivan): Really disturbing little tidbit. The beginning of this episode all but says the Whisperers are captured enemies of Phobos’s, whom he has transfigured into roses. These roses are enchanted to become the ultimate tattlers. This is very heavily implied when the Whisperers recommend that a “captured” Vathek be turned into a black rose and then insist, “Join us!” This is also revealed to be the end result of Phobos’s plans for Elyon.
We never see the Whisperers again. Nor do we hear of anyone being rescued from this fate. So there are hundreds, possibly more, people who are forever stuck as rose demons who I assume are all hit with weed killer. Depressing as hell.
This is another one that feels like it was plotted as two episodes, then smushed together for time. The first part has Elyon asking Mrs. Rudolph, the math teacher, to pass along a message to the Guardians. It turns out that Mrs. Rudolph is a disguised monster and she’d been the nanny who stole Elyon away as a baby, using the Seal of Phobos to spirit her away to Earth. Somehow or another, Elyon figured this out—because you’d think that if Phobos knew who it was, he would have SENT SOMEBODY there years ago to get the info out of her. But again, expecting anything smart out of Phobos. Mrs. Rudolph also says that there were many people involved in Elyon’s rescue, and we’ll find out who the mastermind was in season 2. Elyon appears via astral projection and tells the girls to stop looking for her, all because she’s afraid that Phobos is going to use lethal force against them now. Funny, last batch of episodes, she seemed fine with possibly executing them and threatening them with possessed animals and a possessed old man. Disheartened, the girls wonder if Elyon really is okay and if maybe they’ve been wrong about Phobos this entire time. Yeah, I’m sure that the oppressed populace, the slave camps, and the torture they witnessed was all the work of a benevolent ruler. Yan Lin decides that since Elyon doesn’t want to be rescued, then there’s really nothing the girls can do, so they should just retire.
You are a terrible mentor, old lady. I mean, you are Ophanimon-level bad, and she knew the entire time that Kouji had a long-lost twin brother who was being manipulated by the enemy, and she never said a damn thing that wasn’t vague or mysterious. Have you ever heard of something called Stockholm Syndrome, Yan Lin? Sometimes, kidnapping victims bond with their captors and refuse to leave because of a psychological defense mechanism to try to deal with the horrible circumstance. Sure, that does not describe Elyon, since she has no clue that she’s even in any danger, but going by Yan Lin’s logic, anyone who had Stockholm Syndrome might as well just be left with their captors too.
The next part of the story focuses on Blunk just happening to find the Seal of Phobos in the same sewer where it was lost about thirteen years ago. Oy. So he manages to escape a bunch of “sewer troopers” (read: rats) and make it to Earth, creating portals every time he moves. The girls are participating in an extreme inline skating competition (Cornelia participating because she gets to wear spandex—insert RPM joke here), and when Uriah trips Irma, she manages to discover all the portals. Meanwhile, Caleb is running for his life from Cedric and failing to get through any of the portals because Will is closing them. He’s captured and taken to the rock quarry in Hu Gong Gorge while the Guardians track Blunk down and realize he has the Seal. For SOME reason, there’s a fight with the Seal—you’d think that if the thing was booby-trapped, it’d have gone off around the time when Elyon was being transported—and Will is knocked out. When she comes to, she sees the Heart absorb the Seal. They make it back to the Silver Dragon, and the Heart decides to somehow display an image of Caleb trapped in the Gorge, and then the Heart opens a portal so they can go rescue him. They get there, he’s kicking ass anyway, and he’s shocked to see that they can open portals on their own now. But he loves an unfair fight, so he kisses Cornelia on the cheek before jumping on some guy.
…Nope. I’m not going to explain the context. Have fun.
After they win and bring a shirtless Caleb home to the Silver Dragon, they use the Heart to open the Book of Secrets, where they learn that in five days’ time, Elyon’s powers will be at their peak, and Phobos will hold the coronation so he can steal her powers and leave her body trapped as a black rose.
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Date: 2012-01-01 10:27 pm (UTC)What's RPM?
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:30 pm (UTC)Power Rangers RPM, known for its response to any accusations that the Rangers' suits were made of spandex with an indignant cry of "IT'S NOT SPANDEX!"
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Date: 2012-01-02 07:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-08-16 06:56 pm (UTC)I completely agree about Caleb and the guitar - it was just weird.
Was Julian the leader of the Rebellion (Caleb had to "step up"?) It was my impression that Julian was never the leader - note that Caleb continues leading and when people don't know what to do, they ask Julian what Caleb would do. I honestly had the impression that Caleb emerged as the leader before his father was "lost" in the battle.
I laughed out loud at your response to Yan Lin telling them to leave things be after Elyon's message. That really was a WTF. Made no sense for them to act like that.
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Date: 2012-08-17 01:44 am (UTC)Nothing will ever make Yan Lin's decision make sense to me. Not even everything that happened with her team. I'd think that after Cassidy, she'd be a little more determined to save people.
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Date: 2012-08-17 12:35 pm (UTC)Compete fanwankery, but I had the idea of the rebellion being a lot of small groups before Caleb united them and made them a proper fighting force with him as the leader. But there's really no basis for that. All we *actually* know, I think, is that a lot of people worked together to get Elyon out when she was an infant, that there was a rebellion and Julian was captured, and that Caleb was leader from the beginning of the series onward.
I'm still trying to figure out how old the old Guardians looked in their Guardian forms. Phobos said they were old women, but Kadma looked the same in her when she went to Zambala as she did 40+ years ago when the heart was given to Cassidy, didn't she? And they were fighting Phobos at that time so it was fewer than 15 years ago, right?
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Date: 2012-08-18 06:25 pm (UTC)I think all of this is proving is that nobody is good at math on this show. Every time I try to hammer out a timeline, especially for the previous Guardians, I wind up headdesking.
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Date: 2012-08-18 08:43 pm (UTC)Nerissa: When Meridian was under Phobos' power someone had to take charge, to unite the Merdianites and save their world.
Caleb: That was me, not you.
Nerissa: And you were created by me for entirely that purpose. Someone had to have a vision, Caleb. On Meridian, that was you. But I play on a larger stage.
It very definitely sounds like Caleb was the only Rebel leader (of a full, united rebellion) to me. I agree it's odd adults took orders from him, but it has happened a time or three in history.
Now, for more head-desking, Nerissa's timeline. She escaped her cell through a *portal* - the veil was already up. Also, the Oracle and compatriots said once the veil was up they could no longer check in on her - again confirming the veil was up. The veil was put up because of Phobos. But Caleb was born before Elyon was conceived. So how was Phobos already in power - did he not kill his parents for a while after he took charge or and then decide to kill them after they had another kid (having initially imprisoned them?)? And seriously, was he also like 12 when he took over the world? How old is he supposed to be in the present?
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Date: 2012-08-19 12:35 am (UTC)I officially give up on figuring out Nerissa's timeline. Given that it's implied Cassidy died 40 years ago, and she's still a teenager, and Yan Lin would have been about the same age, which means that she had to have married young (and where does name "Lin" come from? They imply an awful lot that it's their last name, so why keep it as "Yan Lin" and "Hay Lin"?), had a kid young, and then he had to have Hay Lin, because she wouldn't be much older than mid-fifties now when Hay Lin is 12-whatever.
And then add in that how in the hell does Phobos take over the world when he's not even through puberty, and...fuck it. Meridian's adults are useless. That's how Phobos took over the world and how Caleb led the Rebellion.
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Date: 2012-08-19 01:21 am (UTC)Yeah, the "Lin" family name is weird, since they call them "Yan Lin" and "Hay Lin" - but also call Yan Lin "Mrs. Lin." Maybe they're Hay Lin Lin and Yan Lin Lin. :D
I don't think Cassidy was a teenager. She'd already had prom (she missed curfew). They don't specify senior prom, but I was thinking of her already having graduated. I like round numbers, so I say - with absolutely no basis - that Guardians are chosen every 50 years. Yan Lin is 61-63 (she was the girls' age when she became a Guardian). And presume Cassidy is the same age. So 40 years ago, Cassidy was in her 20-22. This does mean that Nerissa was Mid-40s when she had Caleb, but that's certainly not an impossibility. Oh well, it's the best I can do.
BTW, Cassidy's mom aged very well. She looks younger than Yan Lin to me. And what exactly did they tell her when Cassidy came home? If she doesn't know about the Guardian thing, then that's much messier than explaining to Zachariah that he was actually with Yan Lin's twin sister (that she hadn't found yet?) and not Yan Lin.
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Date: 2012-08-19 01:24 am (UTC)