Hey Willow, your spectrum is showing. I wonder if Kara even realised what she was doing to her, or if she was even aware her towel had fallen. Should be interesting to see if Karen and Kara ever show up in later seasons of Buffy.
Review By [bjchit] • Date [10 Nov 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
You know I just realised something horrible...if Karen continues to envoke her cry of Merciful Zeus, Zeus WILL likely hear her and seduce her and have his ways with her, and by his showing right after Chaos War, Zeus has a magical punch that can render someone like the Hulk weaker because of it, well it was either that or it was just his pure strenght...eh what am I even talking about, Zeus is a Skyfather, he can go toe-to-toe with Galactus. Just, some disturbing realisations.
And if I read it right then its "ordinary" humans who are the most evil here. They are the ones doing most of the killing, most plots, most injustice, and so on. Why the Mutants don't just kill off the humans in self defense is hard to understand. That or just leave the planet, Kara and Karen could lift a city sized spacecraft without too much problem. Just move every mutant to the moon or mars. Let the stupid humans stew in their own hate.
Then when the humans start something that ends the world or worse, just let them die.
I really dislike zealots.
Review By [Rune] • Date [17 Jun 12] • Rating [9 out of 10]
A terrific done and action-packed adaption of what feels like an absolutely horrible canon storyline from the comics. It was jarringly awful, how entirely unlike the Phoenix Force I remember this was. Ugh. But since you are bravely and skillfully sticking so close to canon events, you have to deal with that awful parts as well as the good ones. I hope things turn out far better than they did in the comics, due to the efforts of our kryptonian heroes. Looking forward very much to future installments of this story, and thanks for writing!
Review By [lunalurker] • Date [21 May 12] • Rating [7 out of 10]
I wonder just how much faster than a human telepath can a Kryptonian think to move at the speeds and have reaction times displayed in comics?
Comments from author:
Depends on the activity. Complex thought processes take longer to accomplish than simple knee-jerk reactions. Putting that aside, however, let's just ballpark it and say that there's somewhere in the region of a 200 millisecond delay on each side in telepathic transactions. Time required for the telepath's thoughts to actual travel through his or her brain, time required for the telepath's commands to actual travel through the target's brain. For the sake of simplicity, we're going to assume that telepathy works by a kind of synchronizing of central nervous systems (via an unknown medium that presumably transmits data between the two bodies at least at light speed): once connected to someone's brain, the telepath receives the information as quickly as the target thinks it, but requires at least 200 milliseconds to react to the information received. We will assume that any data transmitted is transmitted instantly: the target begins to process a telepathic command at the same instant it is initiated by the telepath. The speed at which it will affect you will vary according to your reaction time (say, 200 ms for a human). So if the telepath doesn't know you're there, you've got 400 milliseconds to act before they can shut you down. If they've already logged in to your brain's server, you've got maybe half of that.
Kryptonian reaction time appears to be sufficient to dodge (or catch) a bullet even at point blank range. According to the Mythbusters website, the average bullet travels at 762 or so meters per second (about 1,700 miles per hour). Unless my math is drastically wrong, it's moving 0.762 meter/ms. Let's define point blank in this case as being two meters away from the target. In order to successfully dodge or deflect a bullet at this range - a feat which Superman is repeatedly shown as capable of doing - Kryptonian reaction time (recognize threat, either evade it or put hand in the way of it) has a maximum possible delay of around 2.5 ms.
Bare minimum: Kryptonian reaction time is at least 80x faster than a human's. Which presumably means that the speed of Kryptonian thought is also at least 80x faster than a human's. Note that this does not account for how long it actually takes to get out of the way (or to get a hand in the way), but just just how long it takes to begin to react.
Review By [FellowSufferer] • Date [16 May 12] • Not Rated
Wow. Really complex plot and good character moments. I liked the little mundane touches as well, with Kara realizing that her NYC apartment was the same.
Review By [VillageOrchid] • Date [16 May 12] • Not Rated
There was a hole in the school again, and by that, Power Girl figured that it was probably Tuesday. Which is nice that I am reading this on a Tuesday.
I do like how this came out. I haven't actually read the canonical version which I can see would have been perhaps one of the greater tragedies ever. There are somethings that shouldn't be done, and that what was done to the sisters and their sisters is one of them. I'm glad you allowed even this small bit of change. Out of curiosity, do kryptonians really heal that fast in sunlight? I would have imagined that trauma from before their powers returned wouldn't immediately be fixed just because they did. Otherwise you would hear more about superman not only being fast strong indestructible with heat vision and freeze breath but also as a regenerator.
Comments from author:
It varies somewhat from writer to writer, but in general, the Kryptonian healing factor is stupidly good unless it's actively being impeded by something (such as kryptonite).
Review By [skychan] • Date [15 May 12] • Rating [9 out of 10]
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